Buch, Englisch
ISBN: 978-0-335-23060-0
Verlag: Open University Press
The university is faced with supercomplexity, in which our very frames of understanding, action and self-identity are all continually challenged. In such a world, the university has explicitly to take on a dual role: firstly, of compounding supercomplexity, so making the world ever more challenging; and secondly, of enabling us to live effectively in this chaotic world. Internally, too, the university has to become a new kind of organization, adept at fulfilling this dual role. The university has to live by the uncertainty principle: it has to generate uncertainty, to help us live with uncertainty, and even to revel in our uncertainty.
Ronald Barnett offers nothing less than a fundamental reworking of the way in which we understand the modern university. Realizing the University is essential reading for all those concerned about the future of higher education.
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Introduction
Part 1: The end is nigh
Death and resurrection
The end of enlightenment?
The end of knowledge
The fading constellations
Part 2: Supercomplexity and the university
The constellation of fragility
Supercomplexity
the new universal
The conflict of the faculties
Part 3: Reframing the university
Conditions of the university
A suitable ethos
Realizing the university
Constructing the university
Research in a supercomplex world
Teaching for a supercomplex world
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.