{"product_id":"imagining-the-university-9780415672047","title":"Imagining the University","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAround the world, what it is to be a university is a matter of much debate. The range of ideas of the university in public circulation is, however, exceedingly narrow and is dominated by the idea of the entrepreneurial university. As a consequence, the debate is hopelessly impoverished. Lurking in the literature, there is a broad and even imaginative array of ideas of the university, but those ideas are seldom heard. We need, consequently, not just more ideas of the university but \u003ci\u003ebetter\u003c\/i\u003e ideas.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImagining the University forensically examines this situation, critically interrogating many of the current ideas of the university. \u003ci\u003eImagining the University\u003c\/i\u003e argues for imaginative ideas that are critical, sensitive to the deep structures underlying universities and are yet optimistic, in short \u003ci\u003efeasible utopias\u003c\/i\u003e of the university. The case is pressed for one such idea, that of the ecological university. The book concludes by offering a vision o\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ronald Barnett, one of the world’s leading defenders of the university, calls upon us to free our imaginations in order to engage in the contemporary debate about university futures: what could and should it become? In \u003cem\u003eImagining the University\u003c\/em\u003e he masterfully examines the form and structure of imagination in order to re-examine the concept of the public university to expand, contemplate and evaluate possibilities, and to assert and theorize \u003cem\u003ethe ecological university\u003c\/em\u003e. This work is bound to become a classic within the genre.\" \u003cem\u003eProfessor Michael Peters, University of Waikato, New Zealand and Emeritus, University of Illinois\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Universities, as Ronald Barnett has reminded us in a series of influential books, have always existed in the mind as well as on the ground. This is one explanation of their resilience, their ability to re-invent themselves, and their wide cultural appeal. Progress is enabled by acts of collective imagination. In this latest book, Barnett delicately probes how such acts originate, are evaluated and can succeed.\" \u003cem\u003eDavid Watson, Professor of Higher Education and Principal of Green Templeton College, Oxford\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The University has always been a place for imagination. This book offers a most timely critical account of the current state of imagining the modern University itself and opens up horizons for the public debate about the ‘good university’. It covers a wide expanse of concepts and ideas for the modern university and develops and applies tools for their assessment. It is academically stimulating and practically relevant, and I am sure it will become a key text about our universities and their future development.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eProf Jürgen Enders, Center for Higher education Policy Studies, University of Twente, NL\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In these uncertain times for higher education, Ron Barnett’s latest book invites us to ‘imagine’ a variety of possible futures for universities. In doing so, he presents us with his thoughts on the diversity of what is and has been ‘the university’ alongside his thoughts about the diversity of what could be ‘the university’, or in the author’s words, “the possibility of possibilities”. The reader is presented with many ‘imaginations’ from which to choose though the author’s sympathies for the ‘utopian’ form are pretty clear. This book is a good read, an important read, and a read that will change things. I strongly recommend it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eJohn Brennan, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Research at the Open University and a Visiting Professor at the University of Bath and London Metropolitan University.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The function of the future of universities is being discussed now much more than at any point over the past half-century. In imagining the university, Ron Barnett challenges us to move beyond the established models of a university and to dare, intellectually and socially, to think better about what a university can and should be. This book should be compulsory reading for everyone interested in universities.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eProfessor Michael Worton, Vice-Provost, University College London.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Imagining the university\u003c\/strong\u003e 1. Losing, and regaining, the imagination 2. Perchance to dream 3. Valuing the imagination \u003cb\u003ePart II: Structuring the imagination\u003c\/b\u003e 4. Axes of the imagination 5. Sightings of the imagination \u003cb\u003ePart III: Forms of the imagination\u003c\/b\u003e 6. The ideological imagination 7. The dystopian imagination 8. The persuasive imagination 9. The utopian imagination \u003cb\u003ePart IV: Being imaginative\u003c\/b\u003e 10. Criteria of adequacy 11. Imagining the ecological university 12. The imaginative university Coda: A forgetting of air?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018181149015,"sku":"9780415672047","price":46.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415672047.jpg?v=1750775917","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/imagining-the-university-9780415672047","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}