Why academics should have a duty of truth telling in an epoch of post-truth?
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Gibbs, P. 2019. Why academics should have a duty of truth telling in an epoch of post-truth? Higher Education. 78 (3), pp. 501-510. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-018-0354-y
Type | Article |
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Title | Why academics should have a duty of truth telling in an epoch of post-truth? |
Authors | Gibbs, P. |
Abstract | In this article, I advocate that university education has at its core a mission to enable its communities of scholars (staff and students) to make judgements on what can be trusted, and that they, themselves, should be truth-tellers. It is about society being able to rely upon academic statements, avoiding deliberate falsehoods. This requires trust in oneself to make those judgements; an obligation to do so; and the courage to speak out when such judgements might be unpopular, risky or potentially unsafe. I suggest it should be a duty placed on academics to be truth-tellers and to educate potentially gullible others in what it is to have worthy and reliable self-trust in their own judgements. |
Research Group | Centre for Education Research and Scholarship (CERS) |
Publisher | Springer |
Journal | Higher Education |
ISSN | 0018-1560 |
Electronic | 1573-174X |
Publication dates | |
Online | 04 Jan 2019 |
15 Sep 2019 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 04 Dec 2018 |
Accepted | 19 Dec 2018 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Copyright Statement | This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Higher Education. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10734-018-0354-y |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-018-0354-y |
Language | English |
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