ISBN: 1135098433 9781135098438

Category: Education / General

Page count: 200

<p>Around the world, what it is to be a university is a matter of much debate. The range of ideas of the university in public circulation is, however, exceedingly narrow and is dominated by the idea of the entrepreneurial university. As a consequence, the debate is hopelessly impoverished. Lurking in the literature, there is a broad and even imaginative array of ideas of the university, but those ideas are seldom heard. We need, consequently, not just more ideas of the university but <i>better</i> ideas. </p><p>Imagining the University forensically examines this situation, critically interrogating many of the current ideas of the university. <i>Imagining the University</i> argues for imaginative ideas that are critical, sensitive to the deep structures underlying universities and are yet optimistic, in short <i>feasible utopias</i> of the university. The case is pressed for one such idea, that of the ecological university. The book concludes by offering a vision of the imagining university, a university that has the capacity continually to re-imagine itself.</p>