{"product_id":"on-becoming-edge-ucated-9789935468314","title":"on becoming edGe-ucated","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): G. Thomas Fox\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Sigvaldi Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Sigvaldi Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Adult \u0026amp; Continuing Education\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFox draws upon an impressive storehouse of professional experience, both as a teacher and a researcher (at one point, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehe conducted studies on the reform of higher education in Iceland). The book is eclectically structured-the author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecombines a personal memoir with an educational textbook, an amalgam that places his revelations within the context they\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eoccurred and adds to their clarity. Fox's essential insight is an egalitarian one-he doesn't deny the differences between\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexperts and non-experts, but he blurs them, suggesting that more collaboration between the two is both possible and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emutually beneficial. He convincingly argues that both are united by the salutary experience of intellectual uncertainty;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elooking at a continuum that runs from expertise to non-expertise, ignorance is not bundled at only one end. (\"Rather, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eignorance is located at both ends - as is expertise.\") Furthermore, the author asserts, one's encounter with uncertainty, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand the aplomb with which one negotiates that encounter, is an important hallmark of all thought, not just for those with\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eacademic credentials. \"What I am proposing is that all scientific and other inquiry fields recognize that most human beings, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof all ages and backgrounds, have strengths in working at the edges of the known, of dealing with uncertainty. Although\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emany may not have been prepared to apply these talents through their education, they have had to do so in a variety of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eother aspects of their lives, some more than others.\" This is a thoroughly provocative study, as thoughtful as it is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epersuasive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sigvaldi Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47575761354903,"sku":"9789935468314","price":2601.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789935468314.webp?v=1774898953","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/on-becoming-edge-ucated-9789935468314","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}