The Limits of Competence: Knowledge, Higher Education and Society - Rilegato

Barnett, Ronald

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0335190707 ISBN 13: 9780335190706

Casa editrice: Open Univ Pr, 1994

Riassunto

Competence is a term which is making its entrance in the university. How might it be understood at this level? This book provides a critique of the notion of competence as wholly inadequate for higher eduction. In the older definition - one of academic competence - notions of disciplines, objectivity and truth have been central. In the new version, competence is given an operational twist and is marked out by know-how, competence and skills. In this operationalism, the key question is not "What do students understand?" but "What can students do?" This book develops an alternative view, suggesting that, for our universities, a third and heretical conception of human being is worth considering. Our curricula might, instead, offer an education for life.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Open Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0335190707
• ISBN 13: 9780335190706
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile