Ronald Barnett

Thinking and Rethinking the University

The selected works of Ronald Barnett

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions - so the world can read them in a single manageable volume, allowing readers to follow the themes of their work and see how it contributes to the development of the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781138785076
• ISBN-10: 1138785075
• Artikelnr.: 40334656

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