A critique of universities : reflections on the status and direction of the modern university / Páll Skúlason.

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Páll Skúlason [Author]

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789935230829
9935230821

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

LB2331 .C758 2015

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Subject: Whart sort of institution should the university aspire to be? What role should it be playing in the present? How should it be governed? Are universities taking proper care of the knowledge that they are responsible for? These questions, along with others, are pursued by Páll Skúlason in the present volume on the basis of many years of reflection and experience of university administration. His main thesis is that universities need to be more dedicated to critical thinking and to cultivate the moral dimension of scientific, and technical knowledge.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Preface; Introduction; European Universities: Their Traditions, Challengesand Missions; The Aims and Institutional Structure of the University; The Future of European Universities:Three Educational Aims; The Nature and Purpose of Academic Thought; The University and the Ethics of Knowledge; The Ethical Mission of the University; Index

Whart sort of institution should the university aspire to be? What role should it be playing in the present? How should it be governed? Are universities taking proper care of the knowledge that they are responsible for? These questions, along with others, are pursued by Páll Skúlason in the present volume on the basis of many years of reflection and experience of university administration. His main thesis is that universities need to be more dedicated to critical thinking and to cultivate the moral dimension of scientific, and technical knowledge.

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