
Thinking and Rethinking the University
The selected works of Ronald Barnett
Ronald Barnett(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 24. November 2014
Book
Hardback
278 pages
978-1-138-78507-6 (ISBN)
Description
In the World Library of Educationalists series, international scholars compile career-long selections of what they judge to be among their finest pieces so the world has access to them in a single manageable volume. Readers are able to follow the themes and strands and see how their work contributes to the development of the field.
Over more than three decades, Professor Ronald Barnett has acquired a distinctive position as a leading philosopher of the university and higher education, and this volume brings together 15 of his key writings, particularly papers from leading journals. This volume also includes, as his introductory chapter, an intellectual autobiography, in which Professor Barnett recounts the history of his scholarship and writing, traces its development across five stages, and identifies the themes and sources of inspiration that lie within his corpus of work.
Ronald Barnett has described his corpus of work as a social philosophy of the university that is at once conceptual, critical, practical and imaginative. His concepts of criticality, critical interdisciplinarity, supercomplexity and the ecological university have been taken up in the literature across the world. Through telling examples, and with an incisive clarity of writing, Ronald Barnett's scholarship has helped to illuminate in fresh ways and reorient practices in the university and in higher education. The chapters in this volume reveal all of these qualities so making this volume a compelling overview of a passionate and yet constructive critic of the university.
Over more than three decades, Professor Ronald Barnett has acquired a distinctive position as a leading philosopher of the university and higher education, and this volume brings together 15 of his key writings, particularly papers from leading journals. This volume also includes, as his introductory chapter, an intellectual autobiography, in which Professor Barnett recounts the history of his scholarship and writing, traces its development across five stages, and identifies the themes and sources of inspiration that lie within his corpus of work.
Ronald Barnett has described his corpus of work as a social philosophy of the university that is at once conceptual, critical, practical and imaginative. His concepts of criticality, critical interdisciplinarity, supercomplexity and the ecological university have been taken up in the literature across the world. Through telling examples, and with an incisive clarity of writing, Ronald Barnett's scholarship has helped to illuminate in fresh ways and reorient practices in the university and in higher education. The chapters in this volume reveal all of these qualities so making this volume a compelling overview of a passionate and yet constructive critic of the university.
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Ronald Barnett is a well known, and sometimes controversial, voice in the world of Higher Education and this important selection comes from his writing spanning 30 years.More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
4 s/w Abbildungen, 4 s/w Zeichnungen, 1 s/w Tabelle
1 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
608 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-78507-6 (9781138785076)
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Person
Ronald Barnett is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at the Institute of Education, London.
Content
Introduction
Part 1: The University
Supercomplexity and the University
Situating the Learning University
Recapturing the Universal in the University
The Idea of the University in the Twenty-First Century: Where's the Imagination?
The Coming of the Ecological University
Part 2: Higher Education
Higher Education: legitimation crisis
Does Higher Education have Aims?
Convergence in Higher Education: The Strange Case of Entrepreneurialism
The Purpose of Higher Education and the Changing Face of Academia
Institutions of Higher Education: purposes and 'performance indicators'
Part 3: Students and learning
Supercomplexity and the Curriculum
Learning about Learning: a conundrum and a possible resolution
Being and Becoming: a student trajectory
Learning for an Unknown Future
Configuring Learning Spaces: Noticing the Invisible
Coda
Bibliography
Index
Part 1: The University
Supercomplexity and the University
Situating the Learning University
Recapturing the Universal in the University
The Idea of the University in the Twenty-First Century: Where's the Imagination?
The Coming of the Ecological University
Part 2: Higher Education
Higher Education: legitimation crisis
Does Higher Education have Aims?
Convergence in Higher Education: The Strange Case of Entrepreneurialism
The Purpose of Higher Education and the Changing Face of Academia
Institutions of Higher Education: purposes and 'performance indicators'
Part 3: Students and learning
Supercomplexity and the Curriculum
Learning about Learning: a conundrum and a possible resolution
Being and Becoming: a student trajectory
Learning for an Unknown Future
Configuring Learning Spaces: Noticing the Invisible
Coda
Bibliography
Index