Higher education and the public good : imagining the university /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nixon, Jon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, ©2011.
Temas:
Education, Higher > Philosophy.
Universities and colleges.
Common good.
Community life.
Communities.
Enseignement supérieur > Philosophie.
Universités.
Bien commun.
Communauté.
colleges (institutions)
universities (institutions)
EDUCATION > General.
Communities
Common good
Community life
Education, Higher > Philosophy
Universities and colleges
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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