The Idea of the University

Acknowledgements - Ronald Barnett/Michael A. Peters: Introduction: Overcoming Pessimism, Forging Possibilities - Part One: Addressing Neoliberalism - Michael A. Peters: Introduction - Jana Bacevic: Chapter One: University under Attack? Politics, Contestation and Agency beyond the 'Neoliberal University' - Henry A. Giroux: Chapter Two: Defending Higher Education in the Age of Barbarism - Sheila Slaughter/Brendan Cantwell: Chapter Three: Academic Capitalism: Reflections on Higher Education in the United States and European Union - Wesley Shumar and Sarah Robinson: Chapter Four: Rethinking the Entrepreneurial University for the 21st Century - Part Two: The Global University - Ronald Barnett: Introduction - Jane Knight: Chapter Five: The International University: Models and Muddles - Simon Marginson: Chapter Six: The Anglo-American University: Support Structure for the 1 per cent - Francine Rochford: Chapter Seven: Freedom and Control in the Constrained Modern University - Nicolas Standaert: Chapter Eight: Displaced towards a Networked University - Part Three: European Ideas - Michael A. Peters: Introduction - Marek Kwiek: Chapter Nine: The University and the State in Europe: The Uncertain Future of the Traditional Social Contract - Susan L. Robertson/Joanna Tidy/Janja Komljenovic: Chapter Ten: Forum Shifting and Shape Making in Higher Education Services - Peter Scott: Chapter Eleven: The European University: Heartland to Periphery and Even Back Again? - Jussi Välimaa: Chapter Twelve: The Nordic Idea of University - Thorsten Nybom: Chapter Thirteen: European Universities: Another Somewhat Lamenting-Yet Basically Hopeful-Account - Part Four: Regional Perspectives - Ronald Barnett: Introduction - N'Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba: Chapter Fourteen: The Idea of the University in the Evolving Higher Education Landscape in Africa - Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela/Andrés Bernasconi: Chapter Fifteen: The Latin-American University: Past, Present and Future - Yusef Waghid/Nuraan Davids: Chapter Sixteen: Towards an African University in Becoming: Positive Risk, Hope and Imagination - Part Five: Knowledge and Research - Ronald Barnett: Introduction - Gerard Delanty: Chapter Seventeen: Citizenship and the University: The Consequences of Globalization - Alberto Amaral: Chapter Eighteen: Universities and the Knowledge Society Revisited - Robert Hassan: Chapter Nineteen: Parting Ways: Analogue People in a Digital University - Part Six: Teaching and Students - Ronald Barnett: Introduction - Martha C. Nussbaum: Chapter Twenty: Citizens of the World - Paul Gibbs: Chapter Twenty-One: Trust in the University - Jan Masschelein/Maarten Simons: Chapter Twenty-Two: The University as Public Pedagogic Form - Jon Nixon: Chapter Twenty-Three: Universities as Civic Spaces: In the Footsteps of Arendt and Jaspers - Part Seven: Possibilities - Michael A. Peters: Introduction - Gary Rolfe: Chapter Twenty-Four: The Idea(l) of a Paraversity - Peter Murphy: Chapter Twenty-Five: The Platform University: The Destruction and Resurrection of Universities in the Auto-Industrial Age - Tom Bourner: Chapter Twenty-Six: The Fully-Functioning University - Rikke Toft Nørgard/Søren Smedegaard Ernst Bengsten: Chapter Twenty-Seven: Academic Citizenship beyond the Campus: A Call for the Placeful University - Nicholas Maxwell: Chapter Twenty-Eight: Do We Need an Academic Revolution to Create a Wiser World? - Michael A. Peters: Chapter Twenty-Nine: Renewing the Idea of the University: The Cosmopolitan and Postcolonial Projects - Ronald Barnett: Chapter Thirty: The Ecological University-A University Whose Time Has Come- Contributor Biographies - Subject Index - Name Index.