Reshaping the University

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-335-22413-5
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch

What is the emerging shape of the University? Are there spaces for present activities to be practised anew or even for new activities? If these questions have force, they show that the metaphors of shapes and spaces can be helpful in understanding the contemporary university.

Research, teaching and scholarship remain the dominant activities in universities and so it is their relationships that form the main concerns of this volume. Are these activities pulling apart from each other? Or might these activities be brought more together in illuminating ways? Is there space to redesign these activities so that they shed light on each other? Is there room for yet other purposes?

In this volume, a distinguished set of scholars engage with these pertinent but challenging issues. Ideas are offered, and evidence is marshalled, of practices that suggest a re-shaping of the University may be possible.

Reshaping the University appeals to those who are interested in the future of universities, including students, researchers, managers and policy makers. It also addresses global issues and it will, therefore, interest the higher education community worldwide.

Contributors: Ronald Barnett, David Dill, Carol Bond, Lewis Elton, Mick Healey, Mark Hughes, Rajani Naidoo, Mark Olssen, Bruce Macfarlane, Kathleen Nolan, Jan Parker, Michael Peters, Alison Phipps, Jane Robertson, Peter Scott, Stephen Rowland.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barnett, Ronald

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part 1: Myths and distortions

Overview

The mythology of research and teaching relationships in universities

Universities in the marketplace: The distortion of the teaching and research nexus

‘Useful knowledge’: Redefining research and teaching in the learning economy

Part 2: Reconceiving of spaces

Overview

Divergence or convergence? The links between teaching and research in mass higher education

Linking research and teaching: Exploring disciplinary spaces and the role of inquiry-based learning

Being in the university

Intellectual love and the link between teaching and research

Part 3: Possibilities for spaces

Overview

Scholarship and the research and teaching nexus

Publish or cherish? Performing a dissertation in/ between research spaces

Making academics: Work in progress

A mis-en-scene for the theatrical university

Placing service in academic life

The degradation of the academic ethic: Teaching, research and the renewal of professional self-regulation

Concluding note

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Ronald Barnett is a leading writer and theorist on higher education. Based at the Institute of Education, University of London, he is also chair of SRHE. Ronald is an experienced author and has published a number of books with Open University Press including The Idea of Higher Education and Beyond all Reason which has sold over 700 copies in paperback since release in December 2002.