The Academic Structuring of Knowledge

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The unique paremeters of Academic knowledge distinguish it from other types of knowledge. Academia structure knowledge in a way that will make it the province of arcane specialists who hold the "key to the ark", who are able to qualify accolytes and to dispense their knowledge as part of the cultural power structure.

Form and Content

Knowledge become academic when it is packaged into the appropriate form. This form has become the hallmark of Academia, and students spend most of their years acquiring the skills necessary to reproduce information in the prescribed Academic format. This format has gradually developed over the years in an informal way, but academic institutions enforce it with a rigor that testifies to its importance as a structuring element that constructs knowledge as academic.