Imagining the university /

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Author / Creator:Barnett, Ronald, 1947-
Imprint:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.
Description:xi, 188 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:New studies in critical realism and education
New studies in critical realism and education.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8965097
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ISBN:9780415672023 (hardback)
0415672023 (hardback)
9780415672047 (pbk)
041567204X (pbk)
9780203072103 (ebk)
0203072103 (ebk)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--
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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 ideas are seldom heard. We need, consequently, not just more ideas of the university but better ideas. 

Imagining the University forensically examines this situation, critically interrogating many of the current ideas of the university. Imagining the University argues for imaginative ideas that are critical, sensitive to the deep structures underlying universities and are yet optimistic, in short feasible utopias of the university. The case is pressed for one such idea, that of the ecological university. The book concludes by offering a vision of the imagining university, a university that has the capacity continually to re-imagine itself.

Physical Description:xi, 188 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780415672023
0415672023
9780415672047
041567204X
9780203072103
0203072103