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How universities can help create a wiser world : the urgent need for an academic revolution / / Nicholas Maxwell



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Autore: Maxwell Nicholas Visualizza persona
Titolo: How universities can help create a wiser world : the urgent need for an academic revolution / / Nicholas Maxwell Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Exeter, England : , : Imprint Academic, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (169 p.)
Disciplina: 306.432
Soggetto topico: Education, Higher - Social aspects
Educational sociology
Universities and colleges - Sociological aspects
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Publisher information; Quotation; Dedication; Body matter; Chapter 1: The Basic Idea; Chapter 2: Wisdom-Inquiry; Chapter 3: How Wisdom-Inquiry Helps Solve Global Problems; Chapter 4: Is the Wisdom Revolution Underway?; Chapter 5: Policies for a Wiser World; Back matter; References; Critical acclaim
Sommario/riassunto: In order to make progress towards a better world we need to learn how to do it. And for that we need institutions of learning rationally designed and devoted to helping us solve our global problems, make progress towards a better world. It is just this that we lack at present. Our universities pursue knowledge. They are neither designed nor devoted to helping humanity learn how to tackle global problems - problems of living - in more intelligent, humane and effective ways. That, this book ar...
Titolo autorizzato: How universities can help create a wiser world  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-84540-747-4
1-84540-748-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910453801403321
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Serie: Societas