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Odora Hoppers, Catherine A.
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2017-04-24T14:16:17Z |
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dc.date.available |
2017-04-24T14:16:17Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2014 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Odora Hoppers, Catherine A. (2014) Meeting of minds and futures: The nature of knowledge in diverse global settings Journal of Adult and Continuing Education – Volume 20 No. 2 Autumn 2014 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1479-7194 |
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http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.7227/JACE.20.2.7 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22311 |
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Please follow the link to the publisher's website at the top of this item to view the full-text |
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dc.description.abstract |
When we think of communities of the future, we have to think of new social
contracts between universities and society with a different ecology, and an intense
compatibility towards transdisciplinarity. We know that today there is a need for
truly fundamental reflections and questions on knowledge as the building block
of global societies worldwide. But we suffer from a lack of clear understanding of
what is the ‘definition’ of the knowledge that we are talking about. Universities are
awash with literature on knowledge societies, knowledge economies, and scientific
knowledge, but there is no notion of the social contract that should underpin
the different understandings of knowledge as they reveal themselves in diverse
settings.
This article summarises many conversations between the two co-authors with
Jarl Bengtsson as they battled to find answers to these pertinent questions and
some of the deep issues facing the whole of humanity. |
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en |
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dc.publisher |
© Manchester University Press |
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dc.subject |
knowledge society |
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knowledge-based economy |
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science |
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technology |
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higher education |
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modernity |
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dc.title |
Meeting of minds and futures: The nature of knowledge in diverse global settings |
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Article |
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School of Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Studies (SIRGS) |
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