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Disciplines, Skills and the University

Authors :
Muller, Johan
Young, Michael
Source :
Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning. Feb 2014 67(2):127-140.
Publication Year :
2014

Abstract

Several authors have suggested that the contract between the university and society formulated in the nineteenth century is breaking down, and a new relation between knowledge and society is being installed. This paper investigates what is at stake in this shift by re-visiting the roots of disciplinary knowledge, examining Durkheim's social theory of knowledge to display the evolution of basic and professional disciplines in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Two contemporary challenges to disciplinary knowledge are then examined and evaluated. The paper concludes that it is time to transcend the standoff between disciplinary knowledge and practice-based accounts of knowledge.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0018-1560
Volume :
67
Issue :
2
Database :
ERIC
Journal :
Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
EJ1036691
Document Type :
Journal Articles<br />Reports - Evaluative
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-013-9646-4