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A different vision of the societal role of universities, free universities: this is what nineteen scientists, lecturers and students wish to promote in this publication. Its contributors envisage universities as institutions that have liberated themselves from modern forms of megalomania and perverse incentives. They call upon universities to become places where the Bildung of students is given centre stage and where research will thus become more meaningful for society at large. They picture universities as part of an ecosystem making society more vital and dynamic, more committed, more service oriented, more tolerant and richer: a society where people share their lives with others and where a sense of serving others fosters wellbeing, tranquillity and wisdom.

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Author:   Dr Meindert J Flikkema
Publisher:   VU University Press
Imprint:   VU University Press
Weight:   0.218kg
ISBN:  

9789086597314

ISBN 10:   9086597319
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   01 July 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface by Jaap Winter (President Executive Board VU University Amsterdam); The Schools of Athens: Educating Students to Develop Knowledge for Life by Jos Beijshuizen; The Times They Are a-Changin by Halleh Ghorashi; An Educated Guess by James Kennedy; Back to the Drawing Board: Do Universities Need a Redesign? by Elco van burg; Tragedy at the Modern University: An Advocacy for Bildung & Participatory Pedagogy by Tineke Abma; Eppur si muove : The Earth Revolves Around the Sun (Galileo) by Steven ten Have; Meaningful Education to Nurture Servant-Leaders by Sylvia van de Bunt & Frans Trompenaars; The Serving University: A Matter of Prospective Ethics by Johan Wempe; Serving Society by Making Teachers the Linchpin of Academic Education by Frank van der Duijn Schouten; The Teacher as Mentor by James Kennedy; Shaping Better Professionals: The Case of Practice Based Learning by Mario van Vliet; Great Teachers Care by Meindert Flikkema; Unlocking Student Potential by Sjoerd Martens, Nishand Sardjoe & Tom Zegers; Providing Courses in the Masters Phase is No Fast Track to Mastery by Osman Aksoycan, Loes Hafkamp & Laurens Walinga; Deeply Caring about the Core by Anne-Laurette Leijser; Professing with the Labour Market Top of the Holistic Mind by Lita Napitupulu; Sense of Serving: The Extended Story by Meindert Flikkema.

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Dr. Meindert J. Flikkema (1971) obtained his degree in Econometrics from the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. He continued his career at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam where he published a dissertation on innovation in the service sector. He was awarded the Faculty of Economics and Business Administrations Education Prize in 2005, 2014 and 2015, and the Van der Duijn Schouten Education Prize from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2015. In 2016 he was among the five nominees of the national teacher of the year award according to the Interstedelijk Studenten Overleg (iso), after a pre-selection of twenty candidates. Meindert Flikkema currently works for Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam as associate professor, and he is the academic director of the Amsterdam Centre for Management Consulting.

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