Towards the Virtuous University: The Moral Bases of Academic Practice: Key Issues in Higher Education
Autor Jon Nixonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 sep 2009
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780415875141
ISBN-10: 0415875145
Pagini: 180
Ilustrații: 8 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Key Issues in Higher Education
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0415875145
Pagini: 180
Ilustrații: 8 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Key Issues in Higher Education
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
PostgraduateCuprins
List of figures
Preface and acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Universities as civic spaces
Preface and acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Universities as civic spaces
- The structure of the book
- Troubled times
- Civic spaces, civic leadership
- Academic professionalism: a changing profession
- Conclusion
- Stratification, fractionalisation and atomisation
- Management, money and marketing!
- Change from the inside-out
- Academic professionalism: a learning profession
- Conclusion
- A failure of nerve
- Reclaiming a sense of purpose
- Whose freedom? Whose spaces?
- Academic professionalism: a profession of values
- Conclusion
- The Socratic legacy
- The virtues in practice
- The notion of truthfulness
- The integrity of practice: truthfulness
- Conclusion
- The notion of respect
- Respect as recognition
- Attentiveness and honesty
- The integrity of practice: respect
- Conclusion
- The notion of authenticity
- Authenticity and the emotions
- Courage and compassion
- The integrity of practice: authenticity
- Conclusion
- The notion of magnanimity
- Towards a cosmopolitan magnanimity
- Autonomy and care
- The integrity of practice: magnanimity
- Conclusion
- The social content of hope
- The notion of virtuous relationships
- Inter-personal conditions for virtual relationships
- Actualising relationships of virtue
- Conclusion
- Beyond decency
- The cost of utopia
- The conditions for institutional flourishing
- Working towards a good society
- Conclusion
Recenzii
"Jon Nixon's Toward the Virtuous University is indispensable reading for anyone concerned about the future of higher education. The philosophical underpinnings that shape Nixon's arguments are a refreshing articulation of how important and connected universities, academic practice, and our evolving society are." -- Bryan Gopaul, Academic Matters, January 8, 2009
Descriere
Written for higher education academics, staff developers, policy makers and leaders, this book aims to tackle a subject that is at the heart of higher education today: the nature of a "good university".