Understanding the University

Institution, idea, possibilities
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-93405-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 360 g

Reihe: Foundations and Futures of Education

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 the extraordinarily complex entity that is known across the world as ‘the university’.

Through examination of the conditions and possibilities underlying and affecting universities, this work offers an understanding of specific ideas of the university which can inform policies, strategies and practices in relation to the university.

This book is a must read for leaders and senior managers in universities, as well as those undertaking postgraduate studies in the policy and practice of higher education.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barnett, Ronald

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1: Planes of understanding

- Reading the university

- The great hole

- Three planes of understanding

Part 2: The antagonistic university

- Antagonisms

- Seven forms of dialectic

Part 3: Glimpsing spaces

- The possibility of possibilities

- An inevitable remainder

- The real thing

- Holding together

Part 4: Positive moments

- Universals and particulars

- The university as agent

- Work for the visionaries

Coda: On not living in the ruins

Notes

Bibliographic note

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ronald Barnett is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education, University College London Institute of Education.