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"Copernicus Shift:"
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But if the postmodern mind
has sometimes been prone to a dogmatic relativism and a compulsively
fragmenting skepticism, and if the cultural ethos that has accompanied it has
sometimes deteriorated into cynical detachment and spiritless pastiche, it is
evident that the most significant characteristics of the larger postmodern
intellectual situation - its pluralism, complexity, and ambiguity - are
precisely the characteristics necessary for the potential emergence of a
fundamental new form of intellectual vision, one that might both preserve and
transcend the current state of extraordinary differentiation. In the politics
of the contemporary Weltanshaung, no perspective - religious, scientific, or
philosophical - has the upper hand, yet that situation has encouraged an almost
unprecedented intellectual flexibility and cross-fertilization, reflected in
the widespread call for, and practice of, open “conversation” between different
understandings, different vocabularies, different cultural paradigms.
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The textbook descriptions of
management and the tidy rational schemes of the planning process need to become
more aware of emotional tides and droughts of courage or imagination. It means
higher education should get beyond its puerile attempts to do tight, light
quantitatively oriented studies of measurable, often inconsequential pieces of
university life, and unashamedly study the full reality of higher education.
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Boundaries are often barriers to learning.
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