@article{929632,
      recid = {929632},
      author = {Barnett, Ronald, and Fulford, Amanda.},
      title = {Philosophers on the university : reconsidering higher  education /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xii, 213 pages)},
      abstract = {This book shows the significance of the thinking of  philosophers (and other key thinkers) in understanding the  university and higher education. Through those  explorations, it widens and substantially adds to the  emerging philosophy of higher education. It builds on the  historical literature on the idea of the university, and  provides higher education scholars with highly accessible  introductions to the thinking of key philosophers and  thinkers, alerting them to a set of literature that  otherwise might not be encountered. Until very recently,  most of the debate on higher education - both in the public  domain and in the scholarly literature - has been conducted  with little regard to the philosophical literature. This is  odd for two reasons. Firstly, much of the historical  literature on the idea of the university - over the past  two hundred years - has been written by philosophers and  their thinking has largely gone unmined. Second, and  perhaps even more importantly, many of the issues in the  higher education debate are either philosophical in their  nature, or require reflective thinking, and there lies to  hand huge resources in the philosophical literature that  can help in working through those issues. Issues such as  what is to count as knowledge (in the university), wisdom,  voice, democracy, culture, what it is to 'be a student or  academic, academic freedom, communication, work and  disciplinarity cry out for the kind of insights that the  philosophical literature - very broadly understood - can  offer. This book attempts precisely to do this, to show how  the work of key thinkers can help in deepening the higher  education debate. Each chapter focuses on an individual  thinker, giving both an insight into the thinker in  question and accessibly drawing out something of their  thinking and showing its significance in understanding the  university and higher education. The editors provide a  full-length introduction that marks out this large  territory and prepa res the ground for the reader. At a  time of excessive student demand, and unprecedented debate  as to what and whose public good higher education serves,  comes an anthology, which learns from the past to  understand, that which is yet to come. Philosophers on the  University offers sophisticated and unafraid analyses of  what constitutes a university, its truth, its  responsibility, and its accountability. A book of deep  thoughts and insights, surpassed only by the immense  purpose which higher education ought to fulfill. Prof  Nuraan Davids, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/929632},
}