Is Higher Education Making Students Dumb and Dumber
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2803354 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hershey H Friedman (0000-0001-7226-2067, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 53-77 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Economics and Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9246 • E-ISSN: 1536-7150 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ajes.12372 |
| OpenAlex | W3145588010 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
This article examines what colleges and universities have to do if they wish to remain relevant. Many students graduating college today lack critical thinking skills. One reason for this is that academic faculty themselves lack some important skills, which include: 1) an appreciation of uncertainty; 2) respect for other disciplines; and 3) an understanding of what true diversity is all about. All of these require humility, which is not valued enough in academe
Critical thinking · Diversity (politics) · Engineering ethics · Higher education · Humility · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Wish · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Engineering · Higher Education Research Studies · Law · Management and Marketing Education · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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