Thinking about Higher Education
With higher education around the world in a period of extreme flux, this volume explores its underlying philosophy, a core element of the ongoing debate. Offering a diverse range of perspectives from an international selection of renowned scholars of higher education, the book is full of imaginative...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2014, 2014
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction, Paul Gibbs and Ron Barnett
- Section one - Positive Imagination
- 2. Thinking about higher education, Ron Barnett
- 3. Higher Education and Ethical Imagination, Marianna Papastephanou
- 4. Happiness not Salaries: The decline of universities and the emergence of higher education, Paul Gibbs
- Section Two – Finding the Public Good
- 5. Higher education and public good, Simon Marginson
- 6. Forces in Tension: The State, Civil Society and Market in the Future of the University, Brian Pusser
- 7. Beyond Neo-Liberalism: Higher Education in Europe and the Global Public Good, Barbara M. Kehm
- 8. Exploring futures for community engagement: uncertainty, difference, and responsibility, Tara Fenwick
- Section Three – Which knowledge and who can have it
- 9. Babies and bathwater: revaluing the role of the academy in knowledge, Leesa Wheelahan
- 10. Curriculum in Higher Education: Beyond false choices, Suellen Shay
- 11. Finding a Voice as a Student, Denise Bachelor
- 12. Into the heart of things Defrosting educational theory, Soren S.E. Bengtsen
- 13. Coda: Reaching for Higher Education