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The Promise of the University
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 is also a place for visceral ambition and for intellectual cowardice, for blinkered individualis…
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- 1
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- 978-981-16-5277-6
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- VII, 213p.:Ill
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- -
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- 378.001 The
The University Becoming
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, higher education institutions and programs are beset with multiple, and often conflicting, pressur…
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- 978-3-030-69628-3
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- ix, 212p.:Ill
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- 378.001 The
The Incentivised University
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 in the hope of addressing key societal problems. That view, and the associated allocation of re…
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- 978-3-030-84447-9
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- xiii, 226p.:Ill
- Series Title
- Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives
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- 378.001 Mul t
Embodiment and Professional Education
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 can help us to reimagine the goals of education in ways that fit more coherently with human con…
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- 978-981-16-4827-4
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- xiv, 256p.:Ill
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- -
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- 378.001 Ret
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