Monday, April 7, 2014

Different perspectives on purpose of higher education

World News reports on the continuing gap between academics' and employers' perceptions of the impact of higher education.  Academics give themselves high marks on preparing students for the workplace but employers are less enthused.

What I'm left wondering is why this is portrayed as an either/or question.  The best educational experiences have for quite some time deliberately connected theory and pract, conceptual and experiential, detachment and engagement.  John Dewey was staunchly committed, and early student affairs educators advocated, that involvement with real questions and taking responsibility to discover and learn solutions to practical problems was key to education's service to society.

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