The Future University: Ideas and Possibilities

by Barnett; Ronald

• ISBN13: 9780415881920
• ISBN10: 0415881927
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-08-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Universities across the world are examining their #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;missions#xE2;#xAC;" and are looking to develop a renewed sense of their purposes. Government commissions, too, are called upon to conduct reviews of universities and debates are conducted. However, those debates seldom inquire into the purposes and responsibilities of universities, and where they do touch on these matters, rarely pursue them in depth. Accordingly, what it is to be a university is in question. What then is it to be a university in the twenty-first century? What possibilities lie in front of it? What ideas might help to frame the university of the future? How, in the best of all likely worlds might and should the university unfold? It is questions such as these that form the territory of this volume. Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars from across the world, The Future University: Ideas and Possibilitiesexplores these matters and offers bold and imaginative proposals. With the contributors offering differing disciplinary viewpoints and perspectives from many regions of the world, the volume is a resource both for further scholarship and also for university policy and practice, at national and institutional levels.