JUST SAY KNOW? SCHOOLING THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

摘要

As every age seeks to name itself in a single catch phrase, the three books reviewed here — Andy Hargreaves's Teaching in a Knowledge Society, Barry Smith's Liberal Education in a Knowledge Society, and Peter Jarvis's The Age of Learning — converge on knowledge society as a defining characteristic. With knowledge the key feature of this society, it should be a wonderful time to be a university professor, and a professor of education to boot. After centuries of professorial disparagement (as mad scientists), mockery (as absent-minded professors) and isolation (in ivory towers), it would seem that our ship has come in.