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Thinking University
A Philosophical Examination of Thought and Higher Education
Av Søren S.E. Bengtsen, Ronald Barnett
Häftad, 2018
961 kr
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This book reinvigorates the philosophical treatment of the nature, purpose, and meaning of thought in today’s universities. The wider discussion about higher education has moved from a philosophical discourse to a discourse on social welfare and service, economics, and political agendas. This book …
Philosophers on the University
Reconsidering Higher Education
Av Ronald Barnett, Amanda Fulford
Inbunden, 2020
1597 kr
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This book shows the significance of the thinking of philosophers (and other key thinkers) in understanding the university and higher education. Through those explorations, it widens and substantially adds to the emerging philosophy of higher education. It builds on the historical literature on the …
Philosophers on the University
Reconsidering Higher Education
Av Ronald Barnett, Amanda Fulford
Häftad, 2021
1597 kr
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This book shows the significance of the thinking of philosophers (and other key thinkers) in understanding the university and higher education. Through those explorations, it widens and substantially adds to the emerging philosophy of higher education. It builds on the historical literature on the …
Post-critical Perspectives on Higher Education
Reclaiming the Educational in the University
Av Naomi Hodgson, Joris Vlieghe m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1491 kr
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This book addresses essential educational dimensions of the university that are often overlooked, not only by prevailing discourses and practices but also by standard critical approaches to higher education. Each chapter takes a different approach to the articulation of a ‘post-critical’ view of …
Post-critical Perspectives on Higher Education
Reclaiming the Educational in the University
Av Naomi Hodgson, Joris Vlieghe m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
1491 kr
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This book addresses essential educational dimensions of the university that are often overlooked, not only by prevailing discourses and practices but also by standard critical approaches to higher education. Each chapter takes a different approach to the articulation of a ‘post-critical’ view of …
PhD at the End of the World
Provocations for the Doctorate and a Future Contested
Av Robyn Barnacle, Denise Cuthbert
Inbunden, 2021
1098 kr
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This book addresses a world-wide audience with reference to a global problem: how the PhD can serve the planet. It examines the role of the PhD, in and of itself, and, as representative of research, the university and evidence-based knowledge, in relation to global crisis and the future of …
PhD at the End of the World
Provocations for the Doctorate and a Future Contested
Av Robyn Barnacle, Denise Cuthbert
Häftad, 2022
1098 kr
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This book addresses a world-wide audience with reference to a global problem: how the PhD can serve the planet. It examines the role of the PhD, in and of itself, and, as representative of research, the university and evidence-based knowledge, in relation to global crisis and the future of …
University Becoming
Perspectives from Philosophy and Social Theory
Av Søren S. E. Bengtsen, Sarah Robinson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1703 kr
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This volume wholeheartedly engages with the current climate in higher education and provides not only a thorough analysis of the foundational elements constituting higher education but also a critical discussion of possible connections to societal and cultural domains and policy debates.Today, …
University Becoming
Perspectives from Philosophy and Social Theory
Av Søren S. E. Bengtsen, Sarah Robinson m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
1703 kr
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This volume wholeheartedly engages with the current climate in higher education and provides not only a thorough analysis of the foundational elements constituting higher education but also a critical discussion of possible connections to societal and cultural domains and policy debates.Today, …
Incentivised University
Scientific Revolutions, Policies, Consequences
Inbunden, 2022
1279 kr
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The core thesis of this book is that to understand the implications of incentive structures in modern higher education, we require a deeper understanding of associated issues in the philosophy of science.Significant public and philanthropic resources are directed towards various forms of research …
Incentivised University
Scientific Revolutions, Policies, Consequences
Häftad, 2023
1279 kr
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The core thesis of this book is that to understand the implications of incentive structures in modern higher education, we require a deeper understanding of associated issues in the philosophy of science.Significant public and philanthropic resources are directed towards various forms of research …
Thinking University
A Philosophical Examination of Thought and Higher Education
Av Søren S.E. Bengtsen, Ronald Barnett
Inbunden, 2018
1385 kr
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This book reinvigorates the philosophical treatment of the nature, purpose, and meaning of thought in today’s universities. The wider discussion about higher education has moved from a philosophical discourse to a discourse on social welfare and service, economics, and political agendas. This book …
Academic Activism in Higher Education
A Living Philosophy for Social Justice
Av Nuraan Davids, Yusef Waghid
Inbunden, 2021
1597 kr
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This book argues for renewed understandings of academic activism, understandings that conceive of the ideas, arguments and scholarship of the academe as embedded within the practices of what the academy does. It examines why and how a renewed notion of academic activism informs a philosophy of …
Academic Activism in Higher Education
A Living Philosophy for Social Justice
Av Nuraan Davids, Yusef Waghid
Häftad, 2022
1597 kr
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This book argues for renewed understandings of academic activism, understandings that conceive of the ideas, arguments and scholarship of the academe as embedded within the practices of what the academy does. It examines why and how a renewed notion of academic activism informs a philosophy of …
Embodiment and Professional Education
Body, Practice, Pedagogy
Av Stephen Loftus, Elizabeth Anne Kinsella
Inbunden, 2021
1597 kr
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This book draws attention to the ways in which an awareness of, and sensitivity to, embodiment can enlighten educational practices. It explores discourses from a range of thinkers, including Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, Bakhtin, Haraway and Ahmed to name a few. The book argues that attention to …
Embodiment and Professional Education
Body, Practice, Pedagogy
Av Stephen Loftus, Elizabeth Anne Kinsella
Häftad, 2022
1597 kr
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This book draws attention to the ways in which an awareness of, and sensitivity to, embodiment can enlighten educational practices. It explores discourses from a range of thinkers, including Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, Bakhtin, Haraway and Ahmed to name a few. The book argues that attention to …
Promise of the University
Reclaiming Humanity, Humility, and Hope
Av Áine Mahon
Inbunden, 2022
1385 kr
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This book offers philosophical readings of the contemporary university and is motivated by a series of pressing challenges in the global context of Higher Education. It argues that the university is a place for community, for refuge, for enlightenment and the careful questioning of knowledge, but …
Promise of the University
Reclaiming Humanity, Humility, and Hope
Av Áine Mahon
Häftad, 2023
1385 kr
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This book offers philosophical readings of the contemporary university and is motivated by a series of pressing challenges in the global context of Higher Education. It argues that the university is a place for community, for refuge, for enlightenment and the careful questioning of knowledge, but …
Towards the Placeful University
Transformative Places and Spaces in Higher Education
Av Giorgi Tavadze, Paul Gibbs m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
1864 kr
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This book outlines ways for universities to become more placeful, fostering an atmosphere of diversity, inclusion, dissensus, and creativity within the university. It argues that only by becoming more placeful can universities establish genuine connections with surrounding environments, …
Marxist Critique of the Ruined University
Av Krystian Szadkowski, Jakub Krzeski
Inbunden, 2025
1207 kr
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This book revitalizes the Marxian concept of critique for research into the transformation of universities. It consists of a set of comprehensive and interconnected theoretical tools, starting from the reflection on the political ontology of higher education, through the critique of political …
Marxist Critique of the Ruined University
Av Krystian Szadkowski, Jakub Krzeski
Häftad, 2026
1207 kr
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This book revitalizes the Marxian concept of critique for research into the transformation of universities. It consists of a set of comprehensive and interconnected theoretical tools, starting from the reflection on the political ontology of higher education, through the critique of political …
Learning Development in Higher Education
Crisis, Practice, and Power in the 21st Century University
Av Jason Eyre
Inbunden, 2025
1385 kr
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This book examines the experiences of Learning Development as a pedagogic practice in higher education. Taking a philosophical approach, the book uses the perspective of a fictionalised Learning Developer to investigate the nature of power relations within the university, and how and why they lead …
Being and Becoming Through Higher Education
Expanding Possibilities
Inbunden, 2024
1809 kr
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This book focuses on the importance of an ontological dimension for today’s higher education, with critical attention to implications for the student experience, engagement, satisfaction, wellbeing, employability, (dis)embodiment and activism in which students take a stand on their own being and …
Being and Becoming Through Higher Education
Expanding Possibilities
Häftad, 2025
1809 kr
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This book focuses on the importance of an ontological dimension for today’s higher education, with critical attention to implications for the student experience, engagement, satisfaction, wellbeing, employability, (dis)embodiment and activism in which students take a stand on their own being and …
Reimagining Engineering Education
Health. Justice. Sustainability.
Av Caroline Baillie, Paul I. Kadetz
Inbunden, 2024
1752 kr
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This book considers a radical change to engineering education. It argues for a reexamination of the traditional way in which engineering students are educated in disciplinary silos and how, instead, we might re-imagine their professional education to more appropriately prepare students to design …
Reimagining Engineering Education
Health. Justice. Sustainability.
Av Caroline Baillie, Paul I. Kadetz
Häftad, 2025
1752 kr
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This book considers a radical change to engineering education. It argues for a reexamination of the traditional way in which engineering students are educated in disciplinary silos and how, instead, we might re-imagine their professional education to more appropriately prepare students to design …
Academic Citizenship, Identity, Knowledge, and Vulnerability
Inbunden, 2023
1491 kr
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This book brings into contestation the idea of academic citizenship as a homogenous and inclusive space. It delves into who academics are and how they come to embody their academic citizenship, if at all. Even when academics hold similar professional standings, their citizenship and implied notions …
Academic Citizenship, Identity, Knowledge, and Vulnerability
Häftad, 2024
1491 kr
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This book brings into contestation the idea of academic citizenship as a homogenous and inclusive space. It delves into who academics are and how they come to embody their academic citizenship, if at all. Even when academics hold similar professional standings, their citizenship and implied notions …
Universities and Epistemic Justice in a Plural World
Knowing Better
Inbunden, 2024
1491 kr
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This book explains why universities, and academics within them, must engage with the diversity of knowledges and knowers that exist in the world. Through philosophical perspectives, theoretical frameworks and practical examples from around the world, the book searches for opportunities for renewal …
Universities and Epistemic Justice in a Plural World
Knowing Better
Häftad, 2025
1491 kr
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This book explains why universities, and academics within them, must engage with the diversity of knowledges and knowers that exist in the world. Through philosophical perspectives, theoretical frameworks and practical examples from around the world, the book searches for opportunities for renewal …
