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OverviewAround 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ronald Barnett (Institute of Education, University of London, UK)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.290kg ISBN: 9780415672047ISBN 10: 041567204 Pages: 188 Publication Date: 11 December 2012 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews<p> Ronald Barnett, one of the world s leading defenders of the university, calls upon us to free our imaginations in order to engage in the contemporary debate about university futures: what could and should it become? In Imagining the University he masterfully examines the form and structure of imagination in order to re-examine the concept of the public university to expand, contemplate and evaluate possibilities, and to assert and theorize the ecological university. This work is bound to become a classic within the genre. Professor Michael Peters, University of Waikato, New Zealand and Emeritus, University of Illinois <p> Universities, as Ronald Barnett has reminded us in a series of influential books, have always existed in the mind as well as on the ground. This is one explanation of their resilience, their ability to re-invent themselves, and their wide cultural appeal. Progress is enabled by acts of collective imagination. In this latest book, Barnett delicately probes how such acts originate, are evaluated and can succeed. David Watson, Professor of Higher Education and Principal of Green Templeton College, Oxford <p> The University has always been a place for imagination. This book offers a most timely critical account of the current state of imagining the modern University itself and opens up horizons for the public debate about the good university . It covers a wide expanse of concepts and ideas for the modern university and develops and applies tools for their assessment. It is academically stimulating and practically relevant, and I am sure it will become a key text about our universities and their future development. <br>Prof J rgen Enders, Center for Higher education Policy Studies, University of Twente, NL Author InformationRonald Barnett is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education, Institute of Education, University of London. His books include The Idea of Higher Education, A Will to Learn, Beyond All Reason and Being a University. He has been a visiting speaker in thirty-five countries. . Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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