<Articles PART I : BEYOND THE SELF>Economy of 'Beyond the Self' : Teacher Education in and as Higher Education

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the picture of higher education described in Paul Standish's Beyond the Self. Standish notes that the language of the open-ended approach to education bypasses the dichotomy of liberal and vocational education. Focusing on the chapter 'Towards an Economy of HigherEducation', I will explore the possibility and plausibility of the open-ended approach by applying it to the realities and practices of teacher education in colleges. In this regard, I will discuss the nature and peculiarity of the education of the closed economy as the background of a separation of teacher education into what is called solely practical and purely theoretical. Accordingly, this study highlights the fact that Standish takes Henry David Thoreau's experiment in Walden as a good example'. It exemplifies the practice of an alternative economy, to the extent that it goes beyond the limitations of the conventional language of economy.