Learning Values Lifelong: From Inert Ideas to WholesThis book declares that lifelong learning teaches values and wholeness and rejects inert ideas or fragmentation. Education plays a vital role in reorganizing and revitalizing the abundant facts from the information explosion. Specialization works at cross-purposes with liberal arts education, which discloses a holistic vision of each person's being. |
Contents
REHUMANIZING WORK | 7 |
Scholarship Evolves | 17 |
Improving Lifelong Learning | 23 |
Before Interaction | 29 |
The Commune | 36 |
Simplifying the Explosion of Theory | 43 |
Unchecked Explosion | 51 |
REHUMANIZING DISCIPLINARITY | 57 |
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Aims of Education Albert Einstein Alfred North Whitehead amounts of data argue arts and sciences Axiology bricklayers careers CEOs Chronicle of Higher classroom cognitive comprise context continually criminal Cybernetics data and theory develop disciplines ethics evolving exist fields Fred Davis fundamental graduation Henry Winthrop Higher Education holistic homological human becomings Ibid inert ideas information explosion instructors interactive distance learning interdisciplinary involves irreducible isomorphies knowledge liberal arts lifelong learning Martin Buber means never non-instrumental Ongoing education orientation passive philosophy of education physics process philosophy production quantities of data reality reduces rehumanize requires resimplification rethink return to school Robert Maynard Hutchins says scholars school to relearn simplifying skills social society specialists specialized study specialties subspecialists subspecialties teachers teaching techniques tells theories and data thinking tion underlying understand unity University Vannevar Bush volume in Philosophy wholeness and values work-cycle workers return workplace York
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Bioethics and Social Reality Matti Häyry,Tuija Takala,Peter Herissone-Kelly No preview available - 2005 |