Ronald Barnett

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Ronald Barnett (born 1947) is a philosopher, theorist and analyst of higher education. [1] He is emeritus professor of higher education at University College London. [2]

Barnett's first publication, The Idea of Higher Education (1990), attempted to found a new conception of higher education by drawing upon the Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] Barnett's interests in Critical Theory were reflected in a more practical manner in his Higher Education: A Critical Business (1997). [8] In Realizing the University in an Age of Supercomplexity (2000) and A Will to Learn: Being a Student in Age of Uncertainty (2007), Barnett outlined the dispositions and epistemic virtues required by students, teachers and universities to engage with rapidly changing social and pedagogical conditions. [9] [10] [4]

In Being a University (2011) and Imagining the University (2013) Barnett turned to ontological concerns and the importance of the imagination and poetry (under the influence of Martin Heidegger and Roy Bhaskar). [11] [12] Understanding the University (2015) constitutes the final volume of Barnett's 'University trilogy'. [13]

Barnett's most recent books include The Ecological University: A Feasible Utopia (2018) and The Philosophy of Higher Education: A Critical Introduction (2022). The latter reflects upon the history of the philosophy of higher education since the late 1980s and the publication of Barnett's TheIdea of Higher Education in 1990. [14] A collection of Barnett's essays, written over a 30 year period, was published as Thinking and Revisiting the University: the selected works of Ronald Barnett (2015). [15]

Major publications

References

  1. ↑ "Professor Ronald Barnett". www.ronaldbarnett.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-11-05.[ non-primary source needed ]
  2. ↑ "Iris View Profile". iris.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  3. ↑ Barnett, Ronald (1990). The Idea of Higher Education. Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University Press. ISBN   978-0-335-09420-2. ERIC   ED325039.[ page needed ][ non-primary source needed ]
  4. 1 2 Bengtsen, Søren S. E. (January 2018). "Supercomplexity and the university: Ronald Barnett and the social philosophy of Higher Education". Higher Education Quarterly. 72 (1): 65–74. doi:10.1111/hequ.12153. ERIC   EJ1165433.
  5. ↑ Triansyah, Fadli Agus; Melani, Rini; Napis, Muhammad Samsul Hairi (2 January 2023). "The philosophy of higher education: a critical introduction: edited by Ronald Barnett, New York, Routledge, 2021, xi+290 pp., €24.99 (Paperback), €120.00 (Hardback), €22.49 (eBook), ISBN 9780367610289". Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management. 45 (1): 118–121. doi:10.1080/1360080X.2022.2103616. S2CID   250932394.
  6. ↑ Sturm, Sean (2022-09-23). "The philosophy of higher education". PESA Agora. Retrieved 2022-11-06.
  7. ↑ Scott, Peter (1993). "The Idea of the University in the 21st Century: A British Perspective". British Journal of Educational Studies. 41 (1): 4–25. doi:10.2307/3122430. JSTOR   3122430.
  8. ↑ "Higher Education:: A Critical Business". International Journal of Educational Management. 12 (3): 141. June 1998. doi:10.1108/ijem.1998.12.3.141.1.
  9. ↑ Jones, Anna (January 2009). "A Will to Learn: Being a Student in an Age of Uncertainty – By Ron Barnett". Higher Education Quarterly. 63 (1): 112–114. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2273.2008.00417.x.
  10. ↑ Hartley, David (November 2000). "Realizing the University in An Age of Supercomplexity". Journal of Education for Teaching. 26 (3): 313–314. ProQuest   201158293.
  11. ↑ "Being a University: Book Review". Top Universities. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  12. ↑ "Imagining the University by Ronald Barnett". Times Higher Education (THE). 2013-01-31. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  13. ↑ Barnett, Ronald (2015). Understanding the University: Institution, idea, possibilities. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-317-39059-6.[ page needed ][ non-primary source needed ]
  14. ↑ Krzeski, Jakub (2022-09-14). "'The university is dead, long live the university!': Ronald Barnett and the task of philosophy of higher education". Higher Education. 85 (6): 1427–1431. doi:10.1007/s10734-022-00923-8. ISSN   0018-1560. PMC   9472713 .
  15. ↑ Barnett, Ronald (2014). Thinking and Rethinking the University: The selected works of Ronald Barnett. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-317-66525-0.[ page needed ][ non-primary source needed ]


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