Academic community : discourse or discord?
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Academic community : discourse or discord?
（Higher education policy series, 20）
Jessica Kingsley, 1994
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This volume has grown out of the 1991 annual conference of the Higher Education Foundation held in Roehampton, London
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
Across the western world the academic community is sensing that its practices and values are under attack, and is trying to give the impression that it is a single, united community. However, its modern character suggests otherwise, making it easy for the state to play off the different parts (sectors, subjects, modes of study, mission) against each other. There are signs, nevertheless, that the members of academe are beginning to think in terms of the academic community as a whole, rather than simply of their own sectional interests. This volume will help them do this, by highlighting the difficulties in the notion of 'academic community' - particularly insofar as the effects on the student experience - and by offering definite ideas for realising it more fully in the modern world. Ronald Barnett is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Education.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The idea of academic community: recovering an academic community - above but not beyond, Ronald Barnett
- divide and rule, Peter Scott
- maps of knowledge - do they form an atlas?, John Wyatt. Part 2 Community through academic inquiry: interdisciplinary and community, Tony Becher
- towards a common/universal language, Kenneth Wilson
- towards a new enlightenment - what the task of creating civilization has to learn from the success of modern science, Nicholas Maxwell. Part 3 Community through curriculum: levels of discord, Roy Niblett
- the power of language, Marjorie Reeves
- transferring learning in higher education, Anne Griffin. Part 4 Community through organization: creating a learning community on campus, Patricia Roberts
- creating a community among teachers - a case study, Christian Schumacher
- recovering an academic community - what do we mean?, Ruth Finnegan.
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