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ERIC Number: EJ639553
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1962
The World Wide Web, the Reorganization of Knowledge, and Liberal Arts Education.
Shapiro, Jeremy J.; Hughes, Shelley K.
Educational Technology, v41 n5 p12-16 Sep-Oct 2001
Discusses the shift in the organization and classification of knowledge as a result of the World Wide Web and considers implications for the liberal arts and education in the liberal arts. Highlights include the postmodern period and the obsolescence of knowledge hierarchies; and personal meaning schemes. (LRW)
Descriptors: Classification, Liberal Arts, Postmodernism, Vertical Organization, World Wide Web
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Knowledge; Paradigm Shifts
Note: Special issue: Knowing the Web.