Imagining the university / Ronald Barnett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnett, Ronald, 1947-

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Series:

New studies in critical realism and education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.

Education, Higher.

Universities and colleges--Philosophy.

Universities and colleges.

Physical Description:

188 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.

Summary:

"Despite both positive and negative perceptions of the current state of higher education, the contemporary debate over what it is to be a university is limited. Most of all, it is limited imaginatively. The range of imagined options is narrow. The imagination has not been given anything even approaching a wide scope. As a result, our sense as to what a university could be and could become in the modern age is itself impoverished. If we are seriously to develop a wide range of ideas of the university that is adequate to the challenges of the modern world, the imagination itself needs to be freed. Imagining the University seeks to address each of these sets of issues and will do so by first, identifying a very wide range of ideas of the university as it is now unfolding and could become; secondly, by evaluating those conceptions of the university with a classification of ideas of the university; and thirdly, by reflecting on the imagination itself, its current impoverishment and its possibilities. Whether studying, researching or deciding policy, this book is vital reading to all those involved in the planning and delivery of higher education"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Imagining the university 11

1 Losing, and regaining, the imagination 13

2 Perchance to dream 24

3 Valuing the imagination 35

Part II Structuring the imagination 47

4 Axes of the imagination 49

5 Sightings of the imagination 62

Part III Forms of the imagination 75

6 The ideological imagination 77

7 The dystopian imagination 87

8 The persuasive imagination 98

9 The utopian imagination 109

Part IV Being imaginative 121

10 Criteria of adequacy 123

11 Imagining the ecological university 135

12 The imaginative university 146.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

041567204X

9780415672023

0415672023

9780415672047

9780203072103

0203072103

OCLC:

711041567

Publisher Number:

99952307694