Ronald Barnett
Auteur van The Idea of Higher Education
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Ronald Barnett is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education, University College London Institute of Education, UK.
Werken van Ronald Barnett
A Will to Learn: Being a Student in an Age of Uncertainty (Srhe and Open University Press Imprint) (2007) 6 exemplaren
Changing Identities in Higher Education: Voicing Perspectives (Key Issues in Higher Education) (2007) 4 exemplaren
Conflict and cooperation in multi-ethnic states : institutional incentives, myths and counter-balancing (2007) 3 exemplaren
Ecologies for Learning and Practice: Emerging Ideas, Sightings, and Possibilities (2019) 3 exemplaren
The Future University: Ideas and Possibilities (International Studies in Higher Education) (2013) 2 exemplaren
Rethinking the university after Bologna : new concepts and practices beyond tradition and the market (2009) 1 exemplaar
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Universities are in part to blame for bringing about our current postmodern condition, where no knowledge is secure, no frame of reference and inquiry unchallengeable. Barnett uses the term "supercomplexity" to refer to this fragile state of affairs.
However, there is plenty of cause for hope and not despair, as two new challenges have arisen. Firstly, a mode of research that continues to generate supercomplexity, but which also acknowledges the demands of the world for knowledges to be "useful". Secondly, a mode of education that focuses on the whole of the student's being, preparing the student to survive and thrive in a supercomplex world.
My good friend says that he owes quite a debt to Heidegger's conception of being. I have thus far not found opportunity to research this for myself.… (meer)