Higher Education A Critical Business

Name: Higher Education A Critical Business
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ISBN: 9780335197040

ISBN-10: 0335197043

ISBN-13: 9780335197040

Edition: 1997

Authors: R. Barnett

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With this text, Ronald Barnett argues that the current role of the Western university - to develop critical thinking - is inadequate for the changing and unknowable world facing graduates, and offers a broader concept to replace it.

Book details

List price: $114.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Rethinking Critical Thinking	p. 9
Conditions of Critical Thought	p. 11
Uncritical Theory	p. 23
Discourse and Critical Potential	p. 35
The Closing of the Critical University?	p. 48
Towards Critical Being	p. 61
Critical Being in Higher Education	p. 63
Critical Action	p. 77
Critical Self-reflection	p. 90
A Curriculum for Critical Being	p. 102
Critique in Society	p. 117
Critical Thought in a Corporate World	p. 119
Critical Professionalism	p. 132
Academics as Intellectuals	p. 145
Critical Thinking for a Learning Society	p. 158
Coda: A Critical Space	p. 171
Glossary	p. 179
Bibliography	p. 180
Index	p. 186
The Society for Research into Higher Education	p. 192
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