Higher education and the public good [[electronic resource] ] : imagining the university / / Jon Nixon

• Autore: Nixon Jon
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Continuum International Pub. Group, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (167 p.)
• Disciplina: 370/.015
• Soggetto topico: Education, Higher - Philosophy; Universities and colleges; Common good; Community life
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 The Public in Retreat; Chapter 2 Social Imaginaries; Chapter 3 Civic Imaginaries; Chapter 4 Cosmopolitan Imaginaries; Interlude: From Imaginaries to Actualities; Chapter 5 Human Capability; Chapter 6 Human Reasoning; Chapter 7 Human Purpose; Chapter 8 The Return of the Public; Coda: A Sense of Possibility; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: What constitutes the public good in a highly individualistic, consumerist and privatized society?. The global financial crisis of 2008 revealed the extent to which the public realm had been eroded over the last thirty years and the inroads that privatization and commercialization have made into the higher education sector. This book explores the institutional and sector-wide implications of the financial crisis for higher education - and the lessons to be learnt from that crisis and its aftermath for the university sector as a whole. Jon Nixon argues that the university now has to be re-imagin
• Titolo autorizzato: Higher education and the public good
• ISBN: 1-282-91265-8; 9786612912658; 1-4411-8610-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826659903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II