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  • Realizing the Ecological University

    Eight Ecosystems, Their Antagonisms and a Manifesto

    de Professor Ronald Barnett ...
    The ecological university takes its interconnectedness with the world seriously. This is challenging, for the world is in difficulty and is shot through with antagonism. The university is partly culpable for those difficulties and so has responsibilities towards the world. Realizing the Ecological University spells out this thesis by charting the university's entanglements with eight ecosystems – ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Culture and the University

    Education, Ecology, Design

    de Professor Ronald Barnett, Søren S.E. Bengtsen, Rikke Toft Nørgård ...
    Not long ago, it was understood that universities and culture were intimately related. However, to a large extent, that understanding has faded. Culture and the University confronts this situation. Written by three leading scholars of higher education and the philosophy of higher education, the book opens the debate about the cultural purpose of universities and higher education. The authors argue ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Higher Education

    A Critical Introduction

    de Ronald Barnett ...
    Providing a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of higher education this book steps nimbly through the field, leading it into new areas and advancing an imaginative ecological realism.Each chapter takes the form of a short essay, tackling a particular topic such as values, knowledge, teaching, critical thinking and social justice. It also examines key issues including academic freedom, ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • The Thinking University

    A Philosophical Examination of Thought and Higher Education

    Edición de Søren S.E. Bengtsen, Ronald Barnett ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book reinvigorates the philosophical treatment of the nature, purpose, and meaning of thought in today’s universities. The wider discussion about higher education has moved from a philosophical discourse to a discourse on social welfare and service, economics, and political agendas. This book reconnects philosophy with the central academic concepts of thought, reason, and critique and their ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • The Idea of the University

    A Reader, Volume 1

    Edición de Michael Adrian Peters, Ronald Barnett ...
    Series Libro 17 - Global Studies in Education
    The Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1 is a unique compilation of selected works of the major thinkers who have contributed to the discourse on the idea of the university in the German, English, American and French traditions, dating from the establishment of the University of Berlin in 1810. Readings include excerpts from Kant and Humboldt in the German tradition of Bildung through to ... Leer más

    $83.99 USD

  • Being a University

    de Ronald Barnett ...
    Series series Foundations and Futures of Education
    There is no single idea of the university. Ever since its medieval origin, the concept of the university has continued to change. The metaphysical university gave way successively to the scientific university, and then to the corporate and the entrepreneurial university. But what, then, might lie ahead?Being a University both charts this conceptual development and examines the future possibilities ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • Changing Identities in Higher Education

    Voicing Perspectives

    Edición de Ronald Barnett, Roberto Di Napoli ...
    Series series Key Issues in Higher Education
    In this timely and innovative book scholars from Europe, the UK, North America and Australia, explore their own sense of identity, reflecting both on their research and scholarly interests, and their work experiences.Taking the form of a debate, Changing Identities in Higher Education helps to widen the contemporary space for debates on the future of higher education itself. The book is split into ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Knowledge and the University

    Re-claiming Life

    de Ronald Barnett, Søren Bengtsen ...
    For hundreds of years, knowledge has been central in understanding the university. Over recent decades, however, it is the economic value of knowledge that has come to the fore. Now, in a post-truth world, knowledge is also treated with suspicion and has become a vehicle for ideologies. Knowledge and the University combats all these ways of thinking. Its central claim is that knowledge is of value ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Understanding the University

    Institution, idea, possibilities

    de Ronald Barnett ...
    Series series Foundations and Futures of Education
    Understanding the University constitutes the final volume in a trilogy – the first two books having been Being a University (2010) and Imagining the University (2012) – and represents the trilogy’s ultimate aims and endeavours. The three volumes together offer a unique attempt at a fairly systematic and exhaustive level to map out just what it might be seriously to understand the extraordinarily ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Thinking and Rethinking the University

    The selected works of Ronald Barnett

    de Ronald Barnett ...
    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    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 ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Thinking about Higher Education

    Edición de Ronald Barnett, Paul Gibbs ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    With higher education around the world in a period of extreme flux, this volume explores its underlying philosophy, a core element of the ongoing debate. Offering a diverse range of perspectives from an international selection of renowned scholars of higher education, the book is full of imaginative insights that add up to a substantive contribution to the discussion.As universities attempt to ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • The Future University

    Ideas and Possibilities

    Edición de Ronald Barnett ...
    Series series International Studies in Higher Education
    Winner of the Comparative and International Education Society Higher Education Special Interest Group Best Book Award for 2014!As universities increasingly engage with the world beyond the classroom and the campus, those who work within higher education are left to examine how the university’s mission has changed. Official reviews and debates often forget to inquire into the purposes and ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD