Underlying values

Malcolm Tight

Chapter 8 in Rethinking the Academic Experience, 2025, pp 113-131 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This final chapter examines two underlying values of higher education and the academic experience: critical thinking and discrimination. Critical thinking is widely accepted as a key quality in the academic experience: something which academic staff exercise on a day-to-day basis and inculcate or develop further in their students. Discrimination conveys a variety of meanings, both negative and positive. Here we are referring to the ability of those involved in higher education to assess and judge the qualities of objects and people, and come to justifiable decisions on that basis. Critical thinking and discrimination are clearly closely linked.

Keywords: Underlying values; Critical thinking; Discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035308378
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