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  • THE PHILOSOPHY OF HIGHER EDUCATION
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    THE PHILOSOPHY OF HIGHER EDUCATION
    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...

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  • KNOWLEDGE AND THE UNIVERSITY
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    KNOWLEDGE AND THE UNIVERSITY
    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 k...

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  • THE ECOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
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    THE ECOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
    RONALD BARNETT
    Universities continue to expand, bringing considerable debate about their purposes and relationship to the world. In The Ecological University, Ronald Barnett argues that universities are short of their potential and responsibilities in an ever-changing and challenging environment. This book centres on the idea that the expansion of higher education has opened new spaces and po...

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  • UNDERSTANDING THE UNIVERSITY
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    UNDERSTANDING THE UNIVERSITY
    RONALD BARNETT
    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 t...

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  • THINKING AND RETHINKING THE UNIVERSITY
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    THINKING AND RETHINKING THE UNIVERSITY
    RONALD BARNETT
    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...

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  • WISDOM IN THE UNIVERSITY
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    WISDOM IN THE UNIVERSITY
    RONALD BARNETT
    This provocative and challenging book questions how people think about what universities should seek to do and how they should respond to the grave problems of our age. It addresses issues such as: What is wisdom? Ought universities to seek, promote and teach wisdom and what would this involve? Does it mean we need a revolution in the aims and methods of academic inquiry? What ...

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  • IMAGINING THE UNIVERSITY
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    IMAGINING THE UNIVERSITY
    RONALD BARNETT
    Around the world, what it is to be a university is a matter of much debate. The range of ideas of the university in public circulation is, however, exceedingly narrow and is dominated by the idea of the entrepreneurial university. As a consequence, the debate is hopelessly impoverished. Lurking in the literature, there is a broad and even imaginative array of ideas of the unive...

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  • THE FUTURE UNIVERSITY
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    THE FUTURE UNIVERSITY
    RONALD BARNETT
    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 p...

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  • BEING A UNIVERSITY
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    BEING A UNIVERSITY
    RONALD BARNETT
    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...

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  • CHANGING IDENTITIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION
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    CHANGING IDENTITIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    BARNETT, RONALD / DI NAPOLI, ROBERTO
    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. T...

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