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Tiêu đề
Economic precarity, modern liberal arts and creating a resilient graduate
Tác giả
Smith A.J.
Năm xuất bản
2018
Source title
Educational Philosophy and Theory
Số trích dẫn
2
DOI
10.1080/00131857.2017.1341826
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
From the perspective of a recent graduate, this article offers a critique of non-STEM higher education in England as unfit for purpose. Whilst universities blindly focus on employability, transferable skills and narrow bands of subject knowledge, the economic world around them has collapsed into absurdity. The graduate today is now faced with economic, social and cultural precarity which is unreflected in the rigid structures and narrow focus of their degree. This article seeks a radical return to the ancient principles of a liberal arts education. Far from this being regressive, I argue that this education can and should be reclaimed and reinvigorated by the flexibility, difficulty and complexity of modern philosophy. Drawing on both Zygmunt Bauman’s liquid modernity and Nigel Tubbs' modern metaphysics, this article argues that higher education is far from obsolete but that its continuing relevance in late Capitalism can only arise from a return to the questions of how graduates can best thrive in the economic world after graduation. © 2017 Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia.
Từ khóa
higher education; Liberal arts; precarity
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Nơi xuất bản
Routledge
Hình thức xuất bản
Article
Open Access
Nguồn
Scopus