Author： Williams Mark Campbell Gunatunge Sunil R.
Publisher： Routledge Ltd
ISSN： 1469-8358
Source： Higher Education in Europe, Vol.25, Iss.3, 2000-10, pp. : 401-409
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Abstract
There is an urgent need for a new wave of learning that will transform university education through communicative action. Open discourse, by concentrating on values, feelings, fears, and hopes, enables a trusting basis for critical and problem-and-solution discussions. Dominated by an instrumental type of rationality, the existing dominant paradigm of university education is becoming progressively coercive and destructive of student and collegial life-worlds. Communicative action, through open discourse between universities, governments, and business, could lead to increasing transnational openness. Can developed countries play a role in this process without dominating and destroying university life-worlds in developing countries?
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