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Course Correction - A Map for the Distracted University (Paperback)
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Course Correction - A Map for the Distracted University (Paperback)
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Course Correction engages in deliberation about what the
twenty-first-century university needs to do in order to re-find its
focus as a protected place for unfettered commitment to knowledge,
not just as a space for creating employment or economic prosperity.
The university's business, Paul W. Gooch writes, is to generate and
critique knowledge claims, and to transmit and certify the
acquisition of knowledge. In order to achieve this, a university
must have a reputation for integrity and trustworthiness, and this,
in turn, requires a diligent and respectful level of autonomy from
state, religion, and other powerful influences. It also requires
embracing the challenges of academic freedom and the effective
governance of an academic community. Course Correction raises three
important questions about the twenty-first-century university. In
discussing the dominant attention to student experience, the book
asks, "Is it now all about students?" Secondly, in questioning
"What knowledge should undergraduates gain?" it provides a critique
of undergraduate experience, advocating a Socratic approach to
education as interrogative conversation. Finally, by asking "What
and where are well-placed universities?" the book makes the case
against placeless education offered in the digital world, in favour
of education that takes account of its place in time and space.
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