The promise of the university reclaiming humanity, humility, and hope /
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 it...
| Other Authors: | Mahon, Áine,, SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Singapore :
Springer,
[2021]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (vii, 213 pages). |
| Series: |
Debating higher education: philosophical perspectives ;
volume 10. |
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. The Gift of the Interval? Revisiting the Promises of Higher Education (Áine Mahon)
- Part I: Facing Darkness
- Chapter 2. Character, Corruption, and 'Cultures of Speed' in Higher Education (Ian James Kidd)
- Chapter 3. The Corrosion of Academic Character (Sharon Rider)
- Chapter 4. Trust and Institutional Values in Higher Education (Penny Enslin and Nicki Hedge)
- Chapter 5. A Culture of Egotism: Rorty and Higher Education (Tracy Llanera and Nicholas H. Smith)
- Chapter 6. Early Career Anxieties in the University: The Crisis of Institutional Bad Faith (Alison M. Brady)
- Part II: Dispelling Shadow
- Chapter 7. Re-enchanting Undergraduate Education: On the Project of Metamorphosis in English Higher Education (Joshua Forstenzer)
- Chapter 8. Reconsidering Student Voice: éSvankmajer's Dimensions of Dialogue and the Claim to Community (Claire Skea)
- Chapter 9. The Enlightened University (Richard Smith)
- Chapter 10. Cultivating Curiosity at University: How Universities Fall Short of Aspiration (Lani Watson)
- Chapter 11. Darkness, Wellness, and World Views: The University's Role in Shaping Students' Experience of Mental Health and Distress (Emma Farrell)
- Part III: Regaining Light
- Chapter 12. Into or Out of the Light? Four Shades of Pedagogical Darkness (Ronald Barnett and S²ren S.E. Bengsten)
- Chapter 13. Academic Freedom and Trans Experiences: Moving from Proclamation to Response (Seán Henry)
- Chapter 14. Disillusioned, Disenchanted, Disembodied? Towards a Collective Imagination of the University (Lindsay Jordan)
- Chapter 15. 'Bothy Culture': Towards a New Ethics for the University (Anne Pirrie, Nini Fang, and Elizabeth O'Brien)
- Chapter 16. The Twilight of the University (Naoko Saito)
- Afterword (Áine Mahon)
- Index.