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Direct linkERIC Number: EJ761201
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 11
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Public Scholarship in the Postmodern University
Yapa, Lakshman
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, n105 p73-83 Spr 2006
This chapter argues that public scholarship can transcend the epistemological limitations of research universities by drawing on postmodern social theory and pragmatism in order to help solve social problems that too often expert knowledge itself has helped create.
Descriptors: Social Problems, Research Universities, Social Theories, Research and Development, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Epistemology, Postmodernism, Scholarship, Social Responsibility
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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