Higher education : a critical business.
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TextPublication details: Buckingham : Open University Press, 1997Description: 208pISBN: 9780335197033 (pbk.) :; 0335197035 (pbk.) :; 9780335197040 (hbk.) :; 0335197043 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Education, Higher -- Aims and objectivesDDC classification: 378'.001 Summary: 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.
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| 378 WEB The globalization of higher education / | 378 WOR The worldwide transformation of higher education / | 378.001 BAR Higher education : a critical business / | 378.001 BAR Higher education : a critical business. | 378.001 BAR The idea of higher education / | 378.001 COL What are universities for? / | 378.001 ETH An ethical education : community and morality in the multicultural university / |
Co-published with the Society for Research into Higher Education.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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