Higher education and the public good : imagining the university / Jon Nixon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nixon, Jon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Philosophy.

Education, Higher.

Universities and colleges.

Common good.

Community life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (167 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What constitutes the public good in a highly individualistic, consumerist and privatized society?. The global financial crisis of 2008 revealed the extent to which the public realm had been eroded over the last thirty years and the inroads that privatization and commercialization have made into the higher education sector. This book explores the institutional and sector-wide implications of the financial crisis for higher education - and the lessons to be learnt from that crisis and its aftermath for the university sector as a whole. Jon Nixon argues that the university now has to be re-imagin

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 The Public in Retreat; Chapter 2 Social Imaginaries; Chapter 3 Civic Imaginaries; Chapter 4 Cosmopolitan Imaginaries; Interlude: From Imaginaries to Actualities; Chapter 5 Human Capability; Chapter 6 Human Reasoning; Chapter 7 Human Purpose; Chapter 8 The Return of the Public; Coda: A Sense of Possibility; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-91265-8

9786612912658

1-4411-8610-7

OCLC:

693761525