New Idea of a University (Paperback, New Ed)

Something has gone deeply wrong with the university - too deeply wrong to be put right by any merely bureaucratic means. What's wrong is, simply, that our official idea of education, the idea that inspires all government policies and 'initiatives', is itself uneducated. With the growing emphasis in higher education on training in supposedly useful skills, has the very ethos of the university been subverted? And, does this more utilitarian university succeed in adding to the national wealth, the basis on which politicians justify the large public expenditure on the higher education system? Should we get our idea of a university from politicians and bureaucrats or from J. H. Newman, Jane Austen and Socrates? This book is an entertaining and highly readable defence of the philosophy of liberal arts education and an attack on the sham that has been substituted for it.

General

Imprint:	Imprint Academic
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2002
First published:	May 2002
Authors:	Duke Maskell • Ian Robinson
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	208
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-907845-34-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Universities / polytechnics Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > General
LSN:	0-907845-34-7
Barcode:	9780907845348

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