Ronald Barnett, Søren S. E. Bengtsen

Knowledge and the University

Re-claiming Life

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Produktbeschreibung

This book considers how the concept of knowledge can be reclaimed in an era of post truth and alternative fact, provides conceptual tools for people to think and debate about knowledge and education in new ways and offers a clear focus for the future development of academia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9781138330894
• ISBN-10: 1138330892
• Artikelnr.: 57498068

Autorenporträt

Ronald Barnett is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education, Institute of Education, University College London, UK. Søren S.E. Bengtsen is Associate Professor at the Centre for Teaching Development and Digital Media and Deputy Director of the Centre for Higher Education Futures, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I The university and life
1 Life in truth and truth in life
2 The real thing
3 Re-placing the humanities
4 Where's the life in academic knowledge?
Part II The spirit of knowledge
5 More than mere debate
6 A will to know
7 Living with darkness
8 Edifying knowledge
9 A culture of lively discourse
Part III Cultivating knowledge in the university
10 Living reason
11 Widening the knowledge ecology
12 Reaching out