Schinkel, Anders. Wonder and Education: On the Educational Importance of Contemplative Wonder. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
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چکیده
In 2011, the British philosopher and Professor of Higher Education Research, Ronald Barnett wrote: “Universities are no longer permitted to be places mystery, uncertainty, unknown. The mystery universities has ended.” 1 This was said in times where neoliberal agenda at its zenith marketisation consumerization, performativity commodification had great impact on universities. What called for a recovery sense wonder encounter presence mystery. indeed is language? earth human being? fundamentally love? Friendship? Human consciousness? reality? Truth? etc., etc.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Philosophy and theory in higher education
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2578-5761', '2578-5753']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/ptihe022021.0005