Roman villas [[electronic resource] ] : a study in social structure / / J.T. Smith ; drawings by A.T. Adams

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454907103321
• Autore: Smith J. T (John Thomas), <1922->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1997
• ISBN: 0-7478-0600-4; 1-280-33476-2; 0-203-00405-1; 0-203-27065-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (413 p.)
• Disciplina: 722.7; 728/.09376; 937
• Soggetti: Architecture, Domestic - Rome; Architecture, Roman - Europe; Architecture and society - Rome; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 330-339) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS
• Sommario/riassunto: Roman Villas explores the social structures of the Roman world by analysing the plans of buildings of all sizes from slightly Romanized farms to palaces. The ways in which the rooms are grouped together; how they intercommunicate; and the ways in which individual rooms and the house are approached, reveal various social patterns, which question traditional ideas about the Roman family and household. J. T. Smith argues that virtually all houses were occupied by groups of varying composition, challenging the received wisdom that they were single family houses whose size reflected only t

Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality [[electronic resource] /] / by Michael O'Sullivan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910254976403321
• Autore: O'Sullivan Michael
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-137-54761-8
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2016.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (X, 175 p.)
• Collana: Palgrave Critical University Studies, , 2662-7329
• Disciplina: 378.001
• Soggetti: Higher education; Education - Philosophy; Philosophy and social sciences; Literature, Modern - 20th century; School management and organization; School administration; Educational policy; Education and state; Higher Education; Educational Philosophy; Philosophy of Education; Twentieth-Century Literature; Administration, Organization and Leadership; Educational Policy and Politics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Academic barbarism : practice and transmission -- Academic barbarism, universities and inequality -- Academic barbarism and the literature of concealment : Roberto Bolaño and W.G. Sebald -- Aaron Swartz, new technologies and the myth of open access -- Academic barbarism and the Asian university : the case of Hong Kong.
• Sommario/riassunto: The image of the university is tarnished: economists argue that modern universities foster 'meritocratic extremism'; educationalists say they perpetuate inequality; novelists describe for us the 'barbaric rituals' of ; academics and philosophers say universities are engaged in 'practices of barbarism'. This book examines how these aspects of the modern university have transformed its educational philosophy and modes of transmission to the extent that the university fosters a form of academic barbarism. New theories of barbarism have emerged alongside a philosophical discourse that is redefining identity in terms of the posthuman and the beastly. Our philosophers are attempting to rescue back what remains of the human as barbarism takes hold. This book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of the economics of the university, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists' representations of university life are all describing a global university that has given up on its promise of greater educational equality.