Knowledge divided against itself.

The article discusses the advances in knowledge from pervasive social problems. Science has been regarded as an alien realm of technical knowledge by humanistic intellectuals. The backwardness of social knowledge is marked in its division into independent and isolated branches of learning. The problem of knowledge isolation and specialization has been left at all levels of education. A kind of political positioning, rather than an inherent condition is reflected in tensions between pure and applied knowledge. The rich heritage of literature in the curriculum field and literature in education creates the need for knowledge interdependence and synthesis.