{"product_id":"the-idea-of-the-university-contemporary-perspectives-paperback","title":"The Idea of the University: Contemporary Perspectives - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBesley\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eCameron McCarthy\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMichael Adrian Peters\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Idea of the University: Contemporary Perspectives, Volume 2\u003c\/em\u003e is a companion to \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1\u003c\/i\u003e, which presents readings from the major texts on the idea of the university over the last two hundred years. This volume consists of essays from the leading contemporary scholars of the university across the world. The essays examine ideas of the university that lie tacitly in its national and global framing, and offer creative ideas in taking the university forward, both on a regional and on a world-wide basis. Specific lines of inquiry include those of citizenship, cosmopolitanism, wisdom, ecology and freedom. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe thirty chapters in this volume have been invitingly grouped to offer intriguing ways into the material, which in turn opens the way to very large conceptual and theoretical issues. In an era of marketization, can universities attend to any global responsibilities? Might regionalism--in Europe, in South America, in Africa--prompt new ideas of the university? What understandings of knowledge are feasible in a digital age? Amid local, national, regional and worldly callings, how might citizenship be construed?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn a final section, a space opens for more speculative inquiries as to the conceptual possibilities ahead: Just what ideas of the university might feasibly be entertained for the twenty-first century? Might it be envisaged that the university has both responsibilities and possibilities in playing a part in bringing about a better world? Those concluding chapters in \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of the University: Contemporary Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e respond in original ways and all in an optimistic fashion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRonald Barnett\u003c\/strong\u003e is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education, University College London Institute of Education. He has spent a lifetime in establishing the philosophy of higher education as a field, advancing original concepts and practical principles. His latest book is \u003ci\u003eThe Ecological University: A Feasible Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e (2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael A. Peters is Professor in the Wilf Malcolm Institute for Educational Research at Waikato University, NZ, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Sociology, BNU, China. He is Executive Editor of \u003ci\u003eEducational Philosophy and Theory\u003c\/i\u003e and founding editor of several other journals. His latest books are \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein and Education: Pedagogical Investigations\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), with Jeff Stickney, and \u003ci\u003eThe Digital University: Manifesto and Dialogue \u003c\/i\u003e(2017), with Petar Jandric.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 624\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.28 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 10, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50381641646317,"sku":"9781433149795","price":154.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/SZhsRoGXbV9781433149795.webp?v=1785679962","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-gb\/products\/the-idea-of-the-university-contemporary-perspectives-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}