A recent issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education contained an article entitled "Wake Up and Smell the New Epistemology." (Unfortunately the full text is only available to subscribers.) In this piece the author makes a strong case that recent generations of students in higher education have an entirely different way of viewing the world in general and education in particular.
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Dr. Michael Burer is Assistant Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary. He is the assistant project director for the NET Bible and has contributed various studies to the bible.org site. His first book - A New Reader's Lexicon of the Greek New Testament, co-authored with Jeff Miller - was published Fall of 2008.