Trusting in the University: The Contribution of Temporality and Trust to a Praxis of Higher Learning
Kluwer Academic Publishers (2004)
| Abstract | The world changes and we are encouraged to change with it, but is all change good? This book asks us to stop and consider whether the higher education we are providing, and engaging in, for ourselves and our societies is what we ought to have, or what commercial interests want us to have. In claiming that there is a place for a higher education of learning, such as the university, amongst our array of tertiary options the book attempts to explore what this might be. Drawing from the existential literature and in particular Heidegger, the book investigates the case for such a form of higher education and settles on existential trust as the ground upon which the community of scholars that ought to be the university can flourish. This book is written for those who are concerned about the trends towards performativity and for those who are not yet so concerned! It offers a controversial and, some might say, idealistic view of what might be but makes no apology for that since the book proposes that higher education is becoming evermore unacceptable for those who value democracy, tolerance and learning. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Education, Higher Aims and objectives Universities and colleges Philosophy Learning and scholarship | |||||||||
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| Call number | LB2322.2.G5 2004 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 904816642X | |||||||||
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