Realizing the university in an age of supercomplexity / Ronald Barnett.
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TextPublication details: Buckingham Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 2000.Description: 200 p. ; 23 cmISBN: - 0335202489
- 378.01 BAR
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The university has lost its way. The world needs the university more than ever but for new reasons. If we are to clarify its new role in the world, we need to find a new vocabulary and a new sense of purpose.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgements (p. x)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Part 1 The End is Nigh (p. 9)
- 1 Death and Resurrection (p. 11)
- 2 The End of Enlightenment? (p. 23)
- 3 The Ends of Knowledge (p. 35)
- 4 The Fading Constellations (p. 47)
- Part 2 Supercomplexity and the University (p. 59)
- 5 The Constellation of Fragility (p. 61)
- 6 Supercomplexity: the New Universal (p. 72)
- 7 The Conflict of the Faculties (p. 84)
- Part 3 Reframing the University (p. 97)
- 8 Conditions of the University (p. 99)
- 9 A Suitable Ethos (p. 111)
- Part 4 Realizing the University (p. 125)
- 10 Constructing the University (p. 127)
- 11 Research in a Supercomplex World (p. 140)
- 12 Teaching for a Supercomplex World (p. 153)
- Conclusions (p. 166)
- Notes (p. 173)
- Bibliography (p. 183)
- Index (p. 193)
- The Society for Research into Higher Education (p. 201)