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Tiêu đề
Beyond the secular university
Tác giả
Hornsby C.; Morello S.
Năm xuất bản
2017
Source title
Beyond McDonaldization: Visions of Higher Education
Số trích dẫn
1
DOI
10.4324/9781315270654
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
It has been noted for some time by those concerned with the direction and purpose of present-day education that the academy is in crisis. This is illustrated by the fact that the notion of a 'core curriculum' is now centred on the STEM disciplines almost exclusively (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). These receive the most external funding and government support, both for departments and for the students. These subjects, for all their nobility, are ordered toward utility. Even those more speculative disciplines, science and mathematics for example, for which a case can be made that they are foundational for the attainment of wisdom, are now imparted within a pedagogy which emphasises an instrumental finality, as opposed to knowledge for the sake of human cultivation and civilisation. Secondary schools and colleges, even the UK's best elite schools, now tend to educate pupils not with a view to forming the person, and the minds of such persons, but to produce those who will succeed when it comes to employability and ultimately achieve financial goals. Indeed, when secondary schools open their doors to university promotional teams at sixth form level, the word on everyone's lips at these careers fairs is, perhaps understandably, employability. Students are not so much seen as persons but rather functionaries being prepared to fit into a future slot in a global, money-making corporation. Universities in turn promote themselves as institutions which can prepare a young person to fill such a slot. Martin Stephen, the former headmaster of one such elite school - St Paul's in London - describes the problem in the following way: There is a basic problem with the concept of liberal education, which is that for any state or parent-funded school pragmatism will be a bigger driver than liberalism. One definition of a liberal education is that it is an education that allows pupils to be exposed to the widest possible range of influences and opinions, seeking to develop the pupil's own judgement on those issues rather than impose or preach an Establishment view… a liberal education is a game with no boundaries, but the urge of all but the most enlightened governments to slap border controls on at every opportunity condemns the two to a longstanding war. © 2017 D. Hayes.
Từ khóa
Tài liệu tham khảo
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Nơi xuất bản
Taylor and Francis
Hình thức xuất bản
Book chapter
Open Access
Nguồn
Scopus