Revaluing the enlightenment: reason and imagination

Autor:	Jean Barr, Tom Steele
Rok vydání:	2003
Předmět:	Higher education business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Enlightenment Social issues Postmodernism Education Epistemology Many core Reflexivity Cultural diversity Sociology business Cultural competence media_common
Zdroj:	Teaching in Higher Education. 8:505-515
ISSN:	1470-1294 1356-2517
DOI:	10.1080/1356251032000117599
Popis:	This paper revisits Enlightenment themes as they relate to Higher Education. It reassesses Enlightenment precepts in light of post-modernist and other critiques, and it argues that, whilst some aspects of counter-Enlightenment critiques are well grounded, many core practices of the Enlightenment tradition remain valid. A re-assertion of some of its central commitments is indeed timely, as Universities become increasingly enmeshed in market values and a functional agenda. We make a case for moving away from the narrowly scientific paradigms of one sort of Enlightenment thought towards a more reflexive imaginative approach that values reason, but supports difference.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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