作者： Patricia J Peknik , Mark M Davis , Anders Aspling , Catherine A Usoff , Richard J Cleary
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摘要: In his classical work, The Tacit Dimension, scientist and philosopher Michael Polanyi makes the case that everything we know has a beginning in the unsaid and assumed background information of our culture. Everett (2012) makes a similar case in his book, Language: The Cultural Tool, referring to tacit knowledge as the ‘dark matter of the mind.’This background, unspoken information is socio-cultural. Tacit knowledge implies that knowing, goal-setting, value, values, and valuation are constructs of the societies in which we live. So it is with higher education. Because of this role of society in all endeavors of its members, faculty, administrators, staff, and students who have dedicated portions of their lives to the enterprise of higher education should understand the larger context from which their endeavors, as well as the purpose and conception of education, emerges and receives its sustenance. Education as we …