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389IntroductionIn W. Martin Davies & Ronald Barnett (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Thinking in Higher Education, Palgrave. pp. 1-25. 2015.What is critical thinking, especially in the context of higher education? How have research and scholarship on the matter developed over recent past decades? What is the current state of the art here? How might the potential of critical thinking be enhanced? What kinds of teaching are necessary in order to realize that potential? And just why is this topic important now? These are the key questions motivating this volume. We hesitate to use terms such as “comprehensive” or “complete” or “definit…Read more
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70Reimagining the new pedagogical possibilities for universities post-Covid-19: An EPAT Collective ProjectEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (6): 717-760. 2022.
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In search of a public : higher education in a global ageIn Ourania Filippakou & Gareth L. Williams (eds.), Higher education as a public good: critical perspectives on theory, policy and practice, Peter Lang. 2014.
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3Thinking about Higher Education (edited book)Imprint: Springer. 2014.With higher education around the world in a period of extreme flux, this volume explores its underlying philosophy, a core element of the ongoing debate. Offering a diverse range of perspectives from an international selection of renowned scholars of higher education, the book is full of imaginative insights that add up to a substantive contribution to the discussion. As universities attempt to adapt to a new environment characterized by stiff international competition, networked remote learning…Read more
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2Universities in a Fluid AgeIn Randall Curren (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Education, Blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains sections titled: The End of Universality Knowing about Knowledge Reshaping the Curriculum The Idea of the Student Conclusion.
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8The Thinking University: A Philosophical Examination of Thought and Higher Education (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2018.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 reconnects philosophy with the central academic concepts of thought, reason, and critique and their associated academic practices of thinking and reasoning. Thought in this context should not be consid…Read more
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12The Idea of Academic AdministrationJournal of Philosophy of Education 27 (2): 179-192. 1993.Academic administration is not to be construed simply as a technical practice, the development of efficient management systems, nor as reactive, as response to the collective views of the academic community, nor in terms of academic leadership, the establishment and implementation of institutional aims. A full account of academic administration will provide a sense of the integral relationship between the academic administrator and the academic community. For that, a prior notion of the academic…Read more
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2Re-valuing the University: An Ecological ApproachIn Paul Gibbs, Jill Jameson & Alex Elwick (eds.), Values of the University in a Time of Uncertainty, Springer Verlag. 2019.Universities and the values that they embody are on a cusp. Over the past half century or more, they have been drawn into, if not corralled into, a value framework of economic and market rationality and state managerialism and have, in turn, been obliged at least to ventriloquise the values of those powerful forces, if not actually to take on those attendant values. Some see the university as occupying a values desert, being devoid of values. For them, the university has fallen in with an age of…Read more
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1Culture and the University: An Ecological ApproachIn Aaron Stoller & Eli Kramer (eds.), Contemporary Philosophical Proposals for the University: Toward a Philosophy of Higher Education, Springer Verlag. pp. 125-144. 2018.Mostly, it seems as if universities no longer have anything to do with culture. Indeed, “culture” has come to take on negative connotations. However, a positive idea of culture in relation to the university may yet be available. Here, the tack is taken of looking to the coming of the ecological university. Such a university would take an interest in itself as a space of culture and would also exemplify a particular culture, namely, an ecological culture. This would be a culture of concern for th…Read more
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18Beyond All Reason: Living with Ideology in the UniversityBritish Journal of Educational Studies 52 (1): 83-84. 2004.
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14The Philosophy of Higher Education: A Critical Introduction, by Ronald Barnett, Routledge, 2022, 290 pp., USD32.95, ISBN 9780367610289. The philosophy of higher education: A critical introduction, byRonald Barnett,Routledge,2022,290 pp.,USD32.95, ISBN 9780367610289 (review)Educational Philosophy and Theory 56 (4): 392-398. 2024.In many ways, Ron Barnett’s academic oeuvre is unique. Without a doubt, he is one of the (if not the) most central founding academics of the research field ‘the philosophy of higher education’, whi...
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The time of reason and the ecological universityIn Paul Gibbs (ed.), Universities in the flux of time: an exploration of time and temporality in university life, Routledge. 2015.
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12In the World Library of Educationalists series, international scholars compile career-long selections of what they judge to be among their finest pieces so the world has access to them in a single manageable volume. Readers are able to follow the themes and strands and see how their work contributes to the development of the field. Over more than three decades, Professor Ronald Barnett has acquired a distinctive position as a leading philosopher of the university and higher education, and this v…Read more
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4Understanding the University: institution, idea, possibilitiesRoutledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business. 2016.Understanding the University constitutes the final volume in a trilogy - the first two books having been Being a University (2010) and Imagining the University (2012) - and represents the trilogy's ultimate aims and endeavours. The three volumes together offer a unique attempt at a fairly systematic and exhaustive level to map out just what it might be seriously to understand the extraordinarily complex entity that is known across the world as 'the university'. Through examination of the conditi…Read more
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5Knowledge and the university: reclaiming lifeRoutledge. 2020.The part that the university plays is increasingly of external and economic value, ignoring the importance of the value of knowledge in itself. By analyzing the university's current relationship with knowledge, this book tackles the problem head-on. It considers how the concept of knowledge can be reclaimed in an era of post truth and alternative fact, provides conceptual tools for people to think and debate about knowledge and education in new ways and offers a clear focus for the future develo…Read more
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9The philosophy of higher education: a critical introductionRoutledge. 2021.Providing a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of higher education, through the lens of ecological realism, this text presents an imaginative way through the field and leads it into new areas. Each chapter takes the form of a short essay, tackling a particular topic such as values, knowledge, teaching, critical thinking, and social justice. It also examines key issues including academic freedom, the digital university and the Anthropocene, and draws on classic as well as contemporary t…Read more
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28Public intellectuals in the age of viral modernity: An EPAT collective writing projectEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (6): 783-798. 2022.Michael A. PetersBeijing Normal University, Beijing, PR China;There is an ecology of bad ideas, just as there is an ecology of weeds– Gregory Bateson (1972, p. 492)While there are classical anteced...
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8Locating the philosophy of higher education – and the conditions of a philosophy of higher educationEducational Philosophy and Theory 1-6. forthcoming.
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130Reimagining the new pedagogical possibilities for universities post-Covid-19Educational Philosophy and Theory 1-44. forthcoming.Michael A. Petersa and Fazal Rizvib aBeijing Normal University, Beijing, PR China; bMelbourne University, Melbourne, Australia Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to ‘no...
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7The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Thinking in Higher Education (edited book)Palgrave. 2015.The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Thinking in Higher Education provides a single compendium on the nature, function, and applications of critical thinking. This book brings together the work of top researchers on critical thinking worldwide, covering questions of definition, pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, research, policy, and application.
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3Academic Community: Discourse or Discord? (edited book)Jessica Kingsley. 1992.Across the western world the academic community is sensing that its practices and values are under attack, and is trying to give the impression that it is a single, united community. However, its modern character suggests otherwise, making it easy for the state to play off the different parts (sectors, subjects, modes of study, mission) against each other. There are signs, nevertheless, that the members of academe are beginning to think in terms of the academic community as a whole, rather than …Read more
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97Being a universityRoutledge. 2011.Ronald Barnett pursues this quest through an exploration of pairs of contending concepts that speak to the idea of the university such as space and time; being ...
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2Critical professionalism in an age of supercomplexityIn Bryan Cunningham (ed.), Exploring professionalism, Institute of Education, University of London. 2008.
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6Universities, ethics, and professions: debate and scrutiny (edited book)Routledge. 2009.Every business and organization today needs to impress stakeholders with its ethics policy. Universities, Ethics and Professions examines how this emphasis on ethics by the professional world is impacting universities, institutions that have long been key contributors to ethical reflection and debate, and shapers of ethical discourse. Changing objectives, globalization, and public concerns continue to bring professionalism, and commercialization, into the dialogue about what ethics mean on campu…Read more
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Jarvis then provides an analysis of the global capitalist system and concludes that 'universities are ceasing to be universities in either the ideal or even the traditional sense'. The ethical university is no longer possible because 169In John Strain, Ronald Barnett & Peter Jarvis (eds.), Universities, Ethics, and Professions: Debate and Scrutiny, Routledge. pp. 169. 2009.
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11The University after postmodernism: An ecological approachEducational Philosophy and Theory 50 (14): 1537-1538. 2018.
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26Academic Fragilities in a Marketised Age: The Case of ChileBritish Journal of Educational Studies 61 (2): 203-220. 2013.Academics are confronted with multiple and conflicting narratives as to what it is to be an academic. Their identities, however, are not entirely of their own making. Through a qualitative study, and deploying a social realist perspective, this paper analyses academic identities in Chile and attempts to locate the patterns of identity in the context of a marketised higher education system. The data were collected in both a state and a private university. The results suggest that distinct kinds o…Read more
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34The very idea of academic culture: What academy? What culture?Human Affairs 24 (1): 7-19. 2014.In what senses can the academy be said to be a site of culture? Does that very idea bear much weight today? Perhaps the negative proposition has more substance, namely that the academy is no longer (if indeed it ever was) a place of culture. After all, we live in dark times-of unbridled power, tyranny, domination and manipulation. Some say that we have entered an age of the posthuman or even the inhuman. It just may be, however, that in such a world, the academic community is needed more than ev…Read more
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480Wisdom in the UniversityRoutledge. 2008.We face grave global problems. We urgently need to learn how to tackle them in wiser, more effective, intelligent and humane ways than we have done so far. This requires that universities become devoted to helping humanity acquire the necessary wisdom to perform the task. But at present universities do not even conceive of their role in these terms. The essays of this book consider what needs to change in the university if it is to help humanity acquire the wisdom it so urgently needs.
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