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Bruffee, Kenneth A. – 1999
This volume explores the academic issue: what is knowledge and what gives it its authority. The book makes three related points: (1) colleges and universities must think of themselves not as stores of knowledge but as institutions of reacculturation; (2) college and university professors must view themselves not as purveyors of information but as…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cognitive Processes, College Faculty, Colleges
