{"title":"Professor Ronald Barnett","description":"\u003cp\u003eProfessor Ronald Barnett's works explore the evolving landscape of higher education with keen insight and critical reflection. His books delve into the cultural dimensions of universities and the urgent need to reimagine their role in society, offering thoughtful perspectives on how education intersects with broader ecological and social challenges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in the transformative potential of academic institutions will find Barnett’s writing both illuminating and inspiring. His contributions invite us to reconsider what it means to learn, teach, and engage within the contemporary university, emphasising a deep commitment to educational philosophy and progressive change.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"realizing-the-ecological-university-by-professor-ronald-barnett-9781350450868","title":"Realizing the Ecological University","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe ecological university\u003c\/strong\u003e takes its interconnectedness with the world seriously. This is challenging, for the world is in difficulty \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e is shot through with antagonism. The university is partly culpable for those difficulties and so has responsibilities towards the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRealizing the Ecological University\u003c\/i\u003e spells out this thesis by charting the university’s entanglements with eight ecosystems – knowledge, learning, persons, social institutions, culture, the economy, the polity, and nature. The book identifies ways in which each of the eight ecosystems is impaired and points to possibilities through which universities can help in repairing those ecosystems. This book also sets out broad principles in helping to realize the ecological university in each of the eight ecosystems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWearing his scholarship lightly, Ronald Barnett draws widely from philosophy, social theory, comparative higher education, and ethics, and advances a particular form of the philosophy of higher education, at once realist, societal, critical, worldly, and Earthly. Written with wit and lots of examples – actual and fictional – the text has a compelling vibrancy, made manifest in its concluding Manifesto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464182546668,"sku":"9781350450868","price":231.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350450868-realizing-the-ecological-university.jpg?v=1775040372"},{"product_id":"culture-and-the-university-by-professor-ronald-barnett-9781350193000","title":"Culture and the University","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot long ago, it was understood that universities and culture were intimately related. However, to a large extent, that understanding has faded. \u003ci\u003eCulture and the University\u003c\/i\u003e confronts this situation. Written by three leading scholars of higher education and the philosophy of higher education, the book opens the debate about the cultural purpose of universities and higher education.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe authors argue that the university should be and can be an institution of culture, of great cultural significance in the digital age, and exercise cultural leadership in society. This wide-ranging and polemic text addresses a range of subjects including environmentalism, citizenship, post-truth, the ethical implications of technology and feminist philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe authors build on the work of key philosophers of the university from Aristotle, Nietzsche and Heidegger to Donna Haraway, Terry Eagleton and Martha C. Nussbaum to conceive of an entirely modern vision of the university. This is a must-read for anyone with an interest in the future of higher education and the university.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596074991852,"sku":"9781350193000","price":62.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8172083a212dfd0a092b128889409421.jpg?v=1777936939"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/professor-ronald-barnett.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}