Higher Education and Science for Development: The Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Mode 3 Knowledge

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Abstract: e re " ection is framed in the scenario identi # ed in the essay “ e new pro-duction of knowledge ” (Gibbons et al., 1994) where the traditional way of knowledge construction, typical of the classical scienti # c research, is discussed (Mode1). In the same essay a new construction model, called “Mode2”, is proposed and it underlines the inter-active and socially distributed aspect of the research proposing a transdisciplinary ap-proach. e author’s re " ection goes beyond this vision and he proposes a further perspec-tive called “Mode3”. e author o1 ers the state of the art of this new perspective from a theoretical, methodo-logical and practical point of view. e word “Mode3 ” is currently at the centre of an interdisciplinary research and it’s used for di1 erent objectives. e author in its interna-tional and interdisciplinary overview deepens, on one side, the “Mode3 ” perspective in the Philosophy of Knowledge and in higher education, and on the other side, he widens the “Mode3 ” dimension in the # eld of management. Riassunto: Lo scenario da dove parte la ri " essione è quello delineato nel saggio “ e new production of knowledge ” (Gibbons et al., 1994) dove viene messo in discussione il

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