Higher Education A Critical Business

Name: Higher Education A Critical Business
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ISBN: 9780335197033

ISBN-10: 0335197035

ISBN-13: 9780335197033

Edition: 1997

Authors: R. Barnett

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Higher Education: A Critical Business is a bold statement about higher education in the modern age. It continues Ronald Barnett's thinking of his earlier books but offers a completely new set of ideas in a challenging but engaging argument.A defining concept of the Western university is that of critical thinking, but that idea is completely inadequate for the changing and unknowable world facing graduates. Instead, we have to displace the idea of critical thinking with the much broader idea of critical being. In this idea, students reflect critically on knowledge but they also develop their powers of critical self-reflection and critical action. This critique is transformatory. An education…

Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Introduction



Rethinking critical thinking


Conditions of critical thought Uncritical theory


Discourse and critical potential


The closing of the critical university?



Towards critical being Critical being in higher education


Critical action


Critical self-reflection


A curriculum for critical being



Critique in society


Critical thought in a corporate world


Critical professionalism


Academics as intellectuals


Critical thinking for a learning society


Coda a critical space


Glossary


Bibliography


Index