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The reaction against conventional knowledge in higher education

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Purpose – Liberal education should consist of a healthy dynamic of mastering and transcending
received traditions. This paper aims to discuss this point.
Design/methodology/approach – This article discusses the inherent tension between the concepts of
‘‘liberal’’ and ‘‘education,’’ where ‘‘education’’ involves imparting conventional knowledge and ‘‘liberal’’
involves freeing the mind from it.
Findings – With the rise of the social sciences and the maturation of the baby-boomers, higher
education in the twentieth century gained a general bias against traditional knowledge. This bias is
reflected in higher education becoming more jobs oriented, more ideological, and relativistic in values.
Practical implications – Higher education should consist of greater integration of historical aspects of
education pushed aside in the twentieth-century while continuing its transformation through new
scientific research, making twenty-first century education more genuinely liberal.
Originality/value – The required transformation will be difficult for many baby-boomers now in positions
of authority in higher education who rejected conventional knowledge in the 1960s.

Keywords Education, Science, Knowledge, Convention, Faith, Liberal

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ON THE HORIZON

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: Emerald Group., 2014

Deskripsi Fisik

ON THE HORIZON VOL. 22 NO. 1 2014, pp. 57-66

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English

ISBN/ISSN

10748121

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