About the author
What is the name of the author?
Ronald Barnett
What are the two axes in which criticality is distinguished? Explain them
Its level and its scope
Which is the main objection to purity?
The purity ideal is not historical but is of the moment.
Why do didactic lectures, performances, and self-reflective activities need to be jettisoned?
Because they fail even to realize the potential human development in each of the three domains.
Do we need to avoid social studies and humanistic studies to accomplish critical thinking?
On the contrary, we shall include social studies and humanistic studies.
Which is the new field professor Barnett created?
The philosophy of higher education
Which are the three domains of criticality? Explain them.
Knowledge, self, and world.
According to the second riposte, which is the main business of business?
The main business of business is business.
Why do contemporary approaches need to be set aside?
Because learners need space to develop and achieve action.
Which is the most problematic domain?
The most problematic domain is the world.
What was the main purpose of the reading?
Discuss criticality in the universities
Which are the three forms of criticality? Explain them
Critical reason
Critical self-reflection
Critical Action
What does critical action demand? Discuss
It demands that persons fully inhabit their actions; that they are brave enough to live out their understanding in the world.
What is the first requirement to keep it simple?
The simplicity; to reveal yourself as an academic.
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Where does professor Barnett teach?
University of London
What does a curriculum need for people to be critical beings? Explain.
The curriculum needs to expose learners to criticality in the three domains.
As per Ronald Barnett, which is the most sophisticated of the three critical voices?
Reflective practice because it connects knowledge with the self.
What does the following mean for you "What is required is not that students become masters of bodies of thought, but that they are enabled to begin to experience..."
Answer depends upon the audience and the professor.
For the author, is the action domain unnecessary for critical thinking?
Actually, for the author, the domain of action is the most necessary one.
Can you guys mention a book written by Professor Barnett?
The ecological university
The philosophy of higher education
Imagining the university
According to the reading, which is the domain that learners are not part of? Discuss and explain.
The domain of the self.
To what extent can higher education be achieved for a critical being?
Higher education for critical beings can only be achieved by accepting the multidimensionality of the task.
What is the educator's task to accomplish critical consciousness?
To set up an educational framework in which students make their own exploration, testing, and company.
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