The Twin Elements of Learning: Knowledge and Judgment

Autor/in	Sullivan, William M.
Titel	The Twin Elements of Learning: Knowledge and Judgment
Quelle	In: Liberal Education, 96 (2010) 3, S.12-17 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0024-1822
Schlagwörter	General Education; Colleges; Liberal Arts; Higher Education; College Students; College Faculty; Knowledge Level; Value Judgment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Allgemein bildendes Schulwesen; Allgemeinbildung; College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Collegestudent; Fakultät; Wissensbasis; Werturteil
Abstract	American colleges and universities are currently in the midst of a vital movement to reinvent liberal education. It is difficult to give a fully accurate description of the agenda of this movement, however, because it is being advanced by a number of disparate groups and organizations. In this paper, the author begins by stipulating what liberal education means: the aim of liberal education is to enable students to make sense of the world and their place in it, to prepare them to use knowledge and skills as means toward responsible engagement with the life of their times. As the author discusses specific developments, he clarifies and qualifies this definition. He stresses that liberal education requires going beyond an exclusive concern with "knowing that" to include developing students' capacity to "know how" as well. But for real liberal education, "knowing that" and "knowing how," even taken together, are not enough; "knowing why" and "knowing when" are also required. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10