The university in the twenty-first century : teaching the new enlightenment in the digital age / Yehuda Elkana, Hannes Klöpper ; edited by Marvin Lazerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elkana, Yehuda, 1934-2012, author.

Klöpper, Hannes, author.

Contributor:

Lazerson, Marvin, editor.

Standardized Title:

Universität im 21. Jahrhundert. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Philosophy.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.

Physical Description:

xvii, 284 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2016.

Summary:

This volume addresses the broad spectrum of challenges confronting the university of the 21st century. Elkana and Klöpper place special emphasis on the questions regarding the very idea and purposes of universities, especially as viewed through curriculum--what is taught--and pedagogy--how it is taught. The ideas recommended here for reform concern especially undergraduate or Bachelor degree programs in all areas of study, from the humanities and social sciences to the natural sciences, the technical fields, law, medicine, and other professions. The core thesis of this book rests on the emergence of a 'New Enlightenment', which requires a revolution in curriculum and teaching in order to translate the academic philosophy of global contextualism into universal practice or application. The university is asked to revamp teaching in order to foster critical thinking that would serve students their entire lives. This book calls for universities to become truly integrated rather than remaining collections of autonomous agencies more committed to competition among themselves than cooperation in the larger interest of learning.

Contents:

Introduction

The idea of the university

The aims of the university, or Humboldt then and Humboldt now

Principles for undergraduate curricula

Rhetoric, arguments, episteme metis and phronesis

Some thoughts for curricula in the natural, social and human sciences and the establishment of new disciplines

Research, teaching, publications, admission, assessment

Democracy, higher education and the philosophy of education

Doctoral education

The university at the dawn of the digital age: realizing technology's transformative potential.

ISBN:

9789633860380

9633860385

OCLC:

967266758