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  • Culture and the University
    Rikke Toft Nørgård / Ronald Barnett / Søren S.E. Bengtsen
    Not long ago, it was understood that universities and culture were intimately related. However, to a large extent, that understanding has faded. Culture and the University confronts this situation. Written by three leading scholars of higher education and the philosophy of higher education, the book opens the debate about the cultural purpose of universities and higher educatio...
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    47,10 €

  • The Philosophy of Higher Education
    Ronald Barnett
    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. ...
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    54,07 €

  • The Black Athlete in West Virginia
    Bob Barnett / Dana Brooks / Ronald Althouse
    This chronicle of sports at West Virginia’s 40 black high schools and three black colleges illuminates many issues in race relations and the struggle for social justice within the state and nation. Despite having inadequate resources, the black schools’ sports teams thrived during segregation and helped tie the state’s scattered black communities together. West Virginia host...
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    57,42 €

  • Knowledge and the University
    Ronald Barnett / Søren S.E. Bengtsen
    For hundreds of years, knowledge has been central in understanding the university. Over recent decades, however, it is the economic value of knowledge that has come to the fore. Now, in a post-truth world, knowledge is also treated with suspicion and has become a vehicle for ideologies. Knowledge and the University combats all these ways of thinking. Its central claim is that k...
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    73,46 €

  • The Ecological University
    Ronald Barnett
    Universities continue to expand, bringing considerable debate about their purposes and relationship to the world. In The Ecological University, Ronald Barnett argues that universities are short of their potential and responsibilities in an ever-changing and challenging environment. This book centres on the idea that the expansion of higher education has opened new spaces and po...
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    73,35 €

  • The Lambert Tapes Cherokee Indian History Volume Three
    Barnett Ronald Wilson
    The Lambert Tapes represent a refreshing departure from the numbingly dry and mundane, history books. This text is history in the raw! These stories and accounts have been interpretively transcribed from a series of taped conversations with historian for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Carl Glenn Lambert. You should not be surprised to encounter radically differing views ...
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    29,88 €

  • Thinking and Rethinking the University
    Ronald Barnett
    In 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 ...
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    94,69 €

  • Understanding the University
    Ronald Barnett
    Through examination of the conditions and possibilities underlying and affecting universities, Understanding the University offers an understanding of specific ideas of the university which can inform policies, strategies and practices in relation to the university. It is a must read for leaders and senior managers in universities , as well as those undertaking postgraduate stu...
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    89,55 €

  • The Future University
    Ronald Barnett
    The Future University explores new avenues opening up to universities and tackles fundamental issues facing their development. Contributors with interdisciplinary and international perspectives imagine ways to frame the university’s future. ...
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    103,02 €

  • Imagining the University
    Ronald Barnett
    Imagining the University seeks to address each of the issues facing higher education and does so by first, identifying a very wide range of ideas of the university as it is now unfolding and could become; secondly, by evaluating those conceptions of the university with a classification of ideas of the university; and thirdly, by reflecting on the imagination itself, its current...
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    103,23 €

  • Being a University
    Ronald Barnett
    There is no single idea of the university. Ever since its medieval origin, the concept of the university has continued to change. The metaphysical university gave way successively to the scientific university, and then to the corporate and the entrepreneurial university. But what, then, might lie ahead? Being a University both charts this conceptual development and examines the...
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    85,64 €

  • The Reluctant Tourist
    Ronald Barnett
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    12,44 €