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A Community of Diversity and Difference

Author(s): Kazimierz Przyszczypkowski, Izabela Cytlak
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Higher Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: architecture of academic knowledge; diversity; different; knowledge transfer; interdisciplinarity
Summary/Abstract: This book uses the concept of the architecture of academic knowledge, pointing to the main overlapping areas of science. In the Lisbon Strategy, we can find attempts to define knowledge through the prism of economic and technological aspects of Europe's development. The goal that we would like to achieve, thanks to knowledge, is to create a competitive society (in relation to the dominant world economies). Doesn't such a concept carry a shadow of technocratism? Is there a place for humanistic reflection? Where are we ourselves? Our inner needs, beliefs and priorities. While building a society based on knowledge, it is worth taking the path of cognitive and scientific diversity that will allow us to maintain a balance in these times that are uncertain for us. At this point, it is worth pointing out the diversity which is the basic manifestation of the architecture of academic knowledge. It is its value and foundation. This differentiation also contains the message that knowing (a) non-scientific has a verbal form, it still lasts and has its infinity.Diversity and the resulting difference in defining specific problems in the architecture of academic knowledge should be viewed equally, as it is not a difference in value. The sum of diversity and difference is positive and creative. In this perspective of relationality, each element (construct) is perceived as "different - distinct". In this way, the domination of any of these elements (constructs) is eliminated. However, each of them is not denied the right to autonomy. This is the perspective of perceiving the relational (fusion) of "different - distinct". with "different - distinct". In the texts of outstanding scientists attached in this book.This book is a generational transmission of knowledge, a kind of transfer between knowledge and experience and what is just entering the world of science. It is a kind of encouragement to use the scientific achievements combining the interpenetrating disciplines of academic knowledge. In one place, texts of prominent figures from the world of science presenting various fields of science are gathered. We dedicate the book to scientists as well as students who want to learn about the interpenetrating areas of academic knowledge architecture.

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