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    Aristotle insists that the development of knowledge and understanding begins with experience. Sense experience is, however, unreliable. This is illustrated by the difference between the naked eye perceiving things to be “crooked when seen in water and straight when seen out of it”, and a scientific understanding of the phenomenon of refraction. Drawing on this analogy, this paper explores the tensions between broad based higher education practices and the pragmatic, technicist initial profession…Read more