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Knowing and becoming in the higher education curriculum
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If a curriculum in higher education is understood to be an educational vehicle to promote a student's development, and if a curriculum in higher education is also understood to be built in large part around a project of knowledge, then the issue arises as to the links between knowledge and student being and becoming. A distinction is made here between knowing as such and coming to know, with the focus on the latter. It is argued that the process of coming to know can be edifying: through the challenges of engaging over time with disciplines and their embedded standards, worthwhile dispositions and qualities may develop, the worthwhileness arising through the formation of ‘epistemic virtues’. Examples of such dispositions and qualities are identified, with differences between dispositions, on the one hand, and qualities, on the other hand, being observed. Educational implications of understanding the nurturing of student being in this way are sketched, with a set of 10 principles offered for curricula and pedagogy. It is suggested, finally, that the clarifying of the relationship between knowing and being is not only a value‐laden but also a pressing matter.
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- Authors
- Barnett, R.
- Venue
- Studies in Higher Education
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2009-05-22
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 429-440
- ISSN
- 0307-5079 (ISSN-L)
- 1470-174X
- OpenAlex
- W2090826507
- Cited by
- 499
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 42.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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