1st Edition
Thinking and Rethinking the University The selected works of Ronald Barnett
By Ronald Barnett
Copyright 2015
292 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
292 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
292 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
- 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’
- 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
Part 2: Higher Education
Part 3: Students and learning
Coda
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Ronald Barnett is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at the Institute of Education, London.
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.
