Understanding the University Institution, idea, possibilities [Hardcover]

Understanding the Universityconstitutes the final volume in a trilogy  the first two books having been Being a University(2010) and Imagining the University(2012)  and represents the trilogys ultimate aims and endeavours. The three volumes together offer a unique attempt at a fairly systematic and exhaustive level to map out just what it might be seriously to understand the extraordinarily complex entity that is known across the world as the university.

Through examination of the conditions and possibilities underlying and affecting universities, this work offers an understanding of specific ideas of the university which can inform policies, strategies and practices in relation to the university.

This book is a must read for leaders and senior managers in universities , as well as those undertaking postgraduate studies in the policy and practice of higher education.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Reading the university
2. The great hole
3. Three planes of understanding

Part 2: The antagonistic university

4. Antagonisms
5. Seven forms of dialectic

Part 3: Glimpsing spaces

6. The possibility of possibilities
7. An inevitable remainder
8. The real thing
9. Holding together

Part 4: Positive moments

10. Universals and particulars
11. The university as agent
12. Work for the visionaries

lƒ+