Ronald Barnett

Thinking and Rethinking the University (eBook, ePUB)

The selected works of Ronald Barnett

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317665250
• Artikelnr.: 41940057

Autorenporträt

Ronald Barnett is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at the Institute of Education, London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1: The University
1. Supercomplexity and the University
2. Situating the Learning University
3. Recapturing the Universal in the University
4. The Idea of the University in the Twenty-First Century: Where's the
Imagination?
5. The Coming of the Ecological University
Part 2: Higher Education
6. Higher Education: legitimation crisis
7. Does Higher Education have Aims?
8. Convergence in Higher Education: The Strange Case of
Entrepreneurialism
9. The Purpose of Higher Education and the Changing Face of Academia
10. Institutions of Higher Education: purposes and 'performance
indicators'
Part 3: Students and learning
11. Supercomplexity and the Curriculum
12. Learning about Learning: a conundrum and a possible resolution
13. Being and Becoming: a student trajectory
14. Learning for an Unknown Future
15. Configuring Learning Spaces: Noticing the Invisible
Coda
Bibliography
Index