Imagining the University

ISBN-13: 9780415672023 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 188 str.

Ronald Barnett

Opis

This text addresses issues regarding the limited imagination in higher education. It does so by identifying a wide range of ideas of the university as it is now unfolding and could become; by evaluating those conceptions of the university with a classification of ideas of the university; and by reflecting on the imagination itself.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Imagining the university  1. Losing, and regaining, the imagination  2. Perchance to dream  3. Valuing the imagination  Part II: Structuring the imagination  4. Axes of the imagination  5. Sightings of the imagination  Part III: Forms of the imagination  6. The ideological imagination  7. The dystopian imagination  8. The persuasive imagination  9. The utopian imagination  Part IV: Being imaginative  10. Criteria of adequacy  11. Imagining the ecological university  12. The imaginative university  Coda: A forgetting of air?

O autorze

Ronald Barnett is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education, Institute of Education, University of London. His books include The Idea of Higher Education, A Will to Learn, Beyond All Reason and Being a University. He has been a visiting speaker in thirty-five countries.　 .