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  • Imagining the University

    by Ronald Barnett ...
    Series series New Studies in Critical Realism and Education (Routledge Critical Realism)
    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 university, but those ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • From Critical Thinking to Criticality

    A Higher Education for a Troubled World

    by Ronald Barnett, Martin Davies ...
    Series series World Issues in the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education
    The world is facing multiple crises and is in need of more critical thinking, but critical thinking is valued less. AI, populism, social media, ever-powerful states, a distrust of universities, the abandonment of the humanities, and a world that favours action and economic growth: all conspire to diminish critical thinking. Higher education falls in with this outlook: empirical evidence confirms a ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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  • Understanding the University

    Institution, idea, possibilities

    by Ronald Barnett ...
    Series series 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 ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • The Philosophy of Higher Education

    A Critical Introduction

    by 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 academic freedom, ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Thinking and Rethinking the University

    The selected works of Ronald Barnett

    by Ronald Barnett ...
    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    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 Barnett has acquired ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Being a University

    by Ronald Barnett ...
    Series series Foundations and Futures of Education
    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 future possibilities ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • The Ecological University

    A Feasible Utopia

    by 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 possibilities. The ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Knowledge and the University

    Re-claiming Life

    by 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 knowledge is of value ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Culture and the University

    Education, Ecology, Design

    by Professor Ronald Barnett, Søren S.E. Bengtsen, Rikke Toft Nørgård ...
    Not long ago, it was understood that universities and culture were intimately related. However, to a large extent, that understanding has faded. Culture and the University confronts this situation. Written by three leading scholars of higher education and the philosophy of higher education, the book opens the debate about the cultural purpose of universities and higher education. The authors argue ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Realizing the Ecological University

    Eight Ecosystems, Their Antagonisms and a Manifesto

    by Professor Ronald Barnett ...
    The ecological university takes its interconnectedness with the world seriously. This is challenging, for the world is in difficulty and is shot through with antagonism. The university is partly culpable for those difficulties and so has responsibilities towards the world. Realizing the Ecological University spells out this thesis by charting the university's entanglements with eight ecosystems – ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Ecologies for Learning and Practice

    Emerging Ideas, Sightings, and Possibilities

    Edited by Ronald Barnett, Norman Jackson ...
    Ecologies for Learning and Practice provides the first systematic account of the ideas of learning ecologies and ecologies of practice and locates the two concepts within the context of our contemporary world. It focuses on how individuals and society are being presented with all manner of learning challenges arising from fluidities and disruptions, which extend across all domains of life. This ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Valuing Higher Education

    An appreciation of the work of Gareth Williams

    Edited by Ronald Barnett ...
    In Valuing Higher Education, leading international analysts examine Gareth Williams's contribution to shaping our thinking about the economics of higher education in essays that are a testimony to Williams's conception that the field cannot be properly understood unless viewed alongside social policy, changes in knowledge production, the life chances of students, and their actual learning ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD