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Human Factors of a Global Society
book

Human Factors of a Global Society

by Tadeusz Marek, Waldemar Karwowski, Marek Frankowicz, Jussi Kantola, Pavel Zgaga
June 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
1177 pages
50h 23m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Human Factors of a Global Society
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that the creation and distribution of socially relevant knowledge is something that needs to be at
the core of university activity, thereby strengthening their social responsibility. As the GUNI report
puts so well, this calls for us to rethink the purpose of higher education, a purpose that is one of
transformation rather than transmission:
The central educative purpose of HEIs ought to be the explicit facilitation of progressive, reexive,
critical, transformative learning that leads to much improved understanding of the need for, and expres-
sion of, responsible paradigms for living and for ‘being’ and ‘becoming’, both as individuals alone and
collectively as communities (GUNI 2009, p. 7).
This notion of ...
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