On Intellectual Independence: The Principal Aim of Universities in New Zealand

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2022-04-25 DOI:10.1007/s40841-022-00250-7

Kerry Shephard

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Abstract

New Zealand's Education and Training Act (Education and Training Act 2020 establishment of institutions, https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2020/0038/latest/LMS202213.html, 2020) confirms that the principal aim of universities is to develop intellectual independence. The act does not stipulate what intellectual independence is or how universities are to develop it. This article explores what intellectual independence might mean in the context of student learning in New Zealand, and what is known about how it could be developed and about how university teachers might confirm that they are developing it. The article provides a conceptual commentary and a model of intellectual independence, designed to encourage debate on this important and pressing higher-education policy issue. The model proposes that intellectual independence is the consequence of students learning the skills and dispositions to think critically, as an independent guide to their own beliefs and actions, and that the Education Act provides a challenge to higher education to contribute positively to the further development of an intellectually-independent critical citizenry.

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论知识独立:新西兰大学的主要目标

新西兰的教育和培训法(2020年教育和培训法建立机构，https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2020/0038/latest/LMS202213.html, 2020)确认大学的主要目标是发展智力独立。该法案没有规定什么是知识独立，也没有规定大学如何发展知识独立。这篇文章探讨了在新西兰学生学习的背景下，智力独立可能意味着什么，以及如何发展它，以及大学教师如何确认他们正在发展它。这篇文章提供了一种概念性的评论和知识独立的模式，旨在鼓励人们就这一重要而紧迫的高等教育政策问题进行辩论。该模型提出，智力独立是学生学习批判性思考的技能和倾向的结果，作为他们自己信仰和行动的独立指南，《教育法》向高等教育提出了挑战，要求高等教育为智力独立的批判性公民的进一步发展做出积极贡献。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.