Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schulze: Where is the spark in science?

Can the existing university model still convey knowledge adequately in times of digital technologies and networks? At the 6th politoco-culturalcongress netz.macht.kultur, LAB2010.tv interviewed sociologist and methodology teacher Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schulze.
The Professor of Sociology at the University of Bamberg harshly criticises the analogue university which only provides knowledge in a one-way-street. Students are constantly fed knowledge in an authoritarian way and they have no opportunitties to actually use their new learnings. Yet knowledge is not only created reciprocally on the Internet but also at university - in a common dialogue and exchange on the topic following the lecturers' theories and students' ideas.

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Moreover, Schulze pleads for a practical university that gets actively involved to once again realise its function in society. His own analogue didactic solution is the debate seminar. Yet the debate will have to reach beyond the borders of university. The acquired findings, the scientific results have to leave their ivory tower. It is missing a culture of useful scientific involvement for exchange within society. The new digital networks exemplify communication structures which could provide for it.

His amusing conclusion of the current desolate state of things: "Sociology is primarily what actors show in talk shows."