书目名称 | The Promise of the University | 副标题 | Reclaiming Humanity, | 编辑 | Áine Mahon | 视频video | | 概述 | Makes a significant contribution to contemporary theorizations of the university.Beneficial to scholars and practitioners in academia, policy and civil society domains who are concerned with the unive | 丛书名称 | Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .This book offers philosophical readings of the contemporary university and is motivated by a series of pressing challenges in the global context of Higher Education. It argues that the university is a place for community, for refuge, for enlightenment and the careful questioning of knowledge, but it is also a place for visceral ambition and for intellectual cowardice, for blinkered individualism and professional competitiveness. ..In the context of a highly competitive post-crash global economy, contemporary students are placed under increasing pressure to distinguish themselves from their peers via a portfolio of learning excellence and extracurricular achievement. Growing numbers undertake part or full-time employment in order to cover registration fees and the basic costs of living. University staff take on very different forms of pressure that operate across the life-course of an academic career – from early-career anxieties to the worries of moreprivileged and permanent faculty who fear they do not meet ever-changing structures, assumptions and demands of the university itself...This book argues that these interlinked agendas demand consideration from philosophers of educatio | 出版日期 | Book 2021 | 关键词 | student character; student wellbeing; student satisfaction; academic speed; academic freedom; academic vu | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5277-6 | isbn_softcover | 978-981-16-5279-0 | isbn_ebook | 978-981-16-5277-6Series ISSN 2366-2573 Series E-ISSN 2366-2581 | issn_series | 2366-2573 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapor |
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