University in Exile. The Experience of the Twenty-First Century

• Autores: Anatoli Mikhailov
• Localización: Social research: An international quarterly of the social sciences, ISSN 0037-783X, Nº. 3, 2009 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Free inquiry at Risk: universities in dangerous times, part II), págs. 849-866
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article discusses the challenges of educational transformation in post-totalitarian societies. Special attention is given to the situation in social sciences and humanities which have suffered a long period of the Soviet ideology domination. The dramatic story of the European Humanities University, which was established in Minsk in 1992 and closed down by the Belarusian regime in 2004, serves as a perfect example of the difficulties in overcoming the crisis of humanities education. The importance of the crucial differentiation between knowledge and thinking is emphasized.