Towards the virtuous university : the moral bases of academic practice
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Towards the virtuous university : the moral bases of academic practice
（Key issues in higher education series）
Routledge, 2008
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-154) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A good university is invariably assumed to be one which is managerially effective in terms of its economic efficiency, and is judged in terms of entrepreneurialism, self-promotion and competitive innovation. This book argues that in the majority of institutions, these goals are being pursued to the exclusion of academic excellence and public service. It proposes that there is a marked lack of intellectual leadership at senior management level within HE institutions and that academic workers must assume responsibility for the moral purposefulness of their institutions. This will not be a retreat into the old values of an elitist 'ivory tower', but a rejection of the current deeply stratified university system which prematurely selects students for differentiated institutional streams.
Table of Contents
List of figures
Preface and acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Universities as civic spaces
The structure of the book
Troubled times
Civic spaces, civic leadership
Academic professionalism: a changing profession
Conclusion
Chapter 2 Universities as places of learning
Stratification, fractionalisation and atomisation
Management, money and marketing!
Change from the inside-out
Academic professionalism: a learning profession
Conclusion
Chapter 3 Universities as deliberative spaces
A failure of nerve
Reclaiming a sense of purpose
Whose freedom? Whose spaces?
Academic professionalism: a profession of values
Conclusion
Chapter 4 Truthfulness: accuracy and sincerity
The Socratic legacy
The virtues in practice
The notion of truthfulness
The integrity of practice: truthfulness
Conclusion
Chapter 5 Respect: attentiveness and honesty
The notion of respect
Respect as recognition
Attentiveness and honesty
The integrity of practice: respect
Conclusion
Chapter 6 Authenticity: courage and compassion
The notion of authenticity
Authenticity and the emotions
Courage and compassion
The integrity of practice: authenticity
Conclusion
Chapter 7 Magnanimity: autonomy and care
The notion of magnanimity
Towards a cosmopolitan magnanimity
Autonomy and care
The integrity of practice: magnanimity
Conclusion
Chapter 8 Relationships of virtue
The social content of hope
The notion of virtuous relationships
Inter-personal conditions for virtual relationships
Actualising relationships of virtue
Conclusion
Chapter 9 Virtuous institutions
Beyond decency
The cost of utopia
The conditions for institutional flourishing
Working towards a good society
Conclusion
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