The Public University as a Real Utopia
Author | : Martin Aidnik |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : |
ISBN-10 | : 9783031593574 |
ISBN-13 | : 303159357X |
Rating | : 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
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Author | : Martin Aidnik |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : |
ISBN-10 | : 9783031593574 |
ISBN-13 | : 303159357X |
Rating | : 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Author | : David B. TYACK |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780674044524 |
ISBN-13 | : 0674044525 |
Rating | : 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
For over a century, Americans have translated their cultural anxieties and hopes into dramatic demands for educational reform. Although policy talk has sounded a millennial tone, the actual reforms have been gradual and incremental. Tinkering toward Utopia documents the dynamic tension between Americans' faith in education as a panacea and the moderate pace of change in educational practices. In this book, David Tyack and Larry Cuban explore some basic questions about the nature of educational reform. Why have Americans come to believe that schooling has regressed? Have educational reforms occurred in cycles, and if so, why? Why has it been so difficult to change the basic institutional patterns of schooling? What actually happened when reformers tried to reinvent schooling? Tyack and Cuban argue that the ahistorical nature of most current reform proposals magnifies defects and understates the difficulty of changing the system. Policy talk has alternated between lamentation and overconfidence. The authors suggest that reformers today need to focus on ways to help teachers improve instruction from the inside out instead of decreeing change by remote control, and that reformers must also keep in mind the democratic purposes that guide public education.
Author | : Ronald Barnett |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2017-10-12 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781351762410 |
ISBN-13 | : 1351762419 |
Rating | : 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Universities continue to expand, bringing considerable debate about their purposes and relationship to the world. In The Ecological University, Ronald Barnett argues that universities are short of their potential and responsibilities in an ever-changing and challenging environment. This book centres on the idea that the expansion of higher education has opened new spaces and possibilities. The university is interconnected with a number of ecosystems: knowledge, social institutions, persons, the economy, learning, culture and the natural environment. These seven ecosystems of the university are all fragile and in order to advance and develop them universities need to engage with each one. By looking at matters such as the challenges of learning, professional life and research and inquiry, this book outlines just what it could mean for higher education institutions to understand and realize themselves as exemplars of the ecological university. With bold and original insights and practical principles for development, this radical and transformative book is essential reading for university leaders and administrators, academics, students, and all interested in the future of the university.
Author | : Miles Taylor |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 663 |
Release | : 2020-11-12 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781350138650 |
ISBN-13 | : 1350138657 |
Rating | : 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
In a remarkable decade of public investment in higher education, some 200 new university campuses were established worldwide between 1961 and 1970. This volume offers a comparative and connective global history of these institutions, illustrating how their establishment, intellectual output and pedagogical experimentation sheds light on the social and cultural topography of the long 1960s. With an impressive geographic coverage - using case studies from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia - the book explores how these universities have influenced academic disciplines and pioneered new types of teaching, architectural design and student experience. From educational reform in West Germany to the establishment of new institutions with progressive, interdisciplinary curricula in the Commonwealth, the illuminating case studies of this volume demonstrate how these universities shared in a common cause: the embodiment of 'utopian' ideals of living, learning and governance. At a time when the role of higher education is fiercely debated, Utopian Universities is a timely and considered intervention that offers a wide-ranging, historical dimension to contemporary predicaments.
Author | : Hans A. Baer |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2017-10-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781785336966 |
ISBN-13 | : 1785336967 |
Rating | : 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have made one thing clear: the desperate need for an alternative to capitalism. In Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia, Hans Baer outlines the urgent need to reevaluate historical definitions of socialism, commit to social equality and justice, and prioritize environmental sustainability. Democatic eco-socialism, as he terms it, is a system capable of mobilizing people around the world, albeit in different ways, to prevent on-going human socio-economic and environmental degradation, and anthropogenic climate change.
Author | : Erik Olin Wright |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2015-09-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781781689455 |
ISBN-13 | : 1781689458 |
Rating | : 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Leading sociologist examines how different readings of class enrich our understanding of capitalism Few ideas are more contested today than “class.” Some have declared its death, while others insist on its centrality to contemporary capitalism. It is said its relevance is limited to explaining individuals’ economic conditions and opportunities, while at the same time argued that it is a structural feature of macro-power relations. In Understanding Class, leading left sociologist Erik Olin Wright interrogates the divergent meanings of this fundamental concept in order to develop a more integrated framework of class analysis. Beginning with the treatment of class in Marx and Weber, proceeding through the writings of Charles Tilly, Thomas Piketty, Guy Standing, and others, and finally examining how class struggle and class compromise play out in contemporary society, Understanding Class provides a compelling view of how to think about the complexity of class in the world today.
Author | : Martin Aidnik |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-08-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 3031593561 |
ISBN-13 | : 9783031593567 |
Rating | : 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
This book theorises the public university as a real utopia, drawing upon the work of the American sociologist Erik Olin Wright. The book explores institutional democracy, academic freedom and the curriculum as the real utopian 'constituents' of the public university. In doing so, the author puts forward an argument for the redevelopment of public universities, seeking to do justice to both a radical vision and practical feasibility. This imaginative reconstruction of the university advances debate in the sociology and philosophy of higher education.
Author | : Erik Olin Wright |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781789601459 |
ISBN-13 | : 1789601452 |
Rating | : 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet few are attempting this task-most analysts argue that any attempt to rethink our social and economic relations is utopian. Erik Olin Wright's major new work is a comprehensive assault on the quietism of contemporary social theory. A systematic reconstruction of the core values and feasible goals for Left theorists and political actors, Envisioning Real Utopias lays the foundations for a set of concrete, emancipatory alternatives to the capitalist system. Characteristically rigorous and engaging, this will become a landmark of social thought for the twenty-first century.
Author | : Thomas More |
Publisher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 2019-04-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9788027303588 |
ISBN-13 | : 8027303583 |
Rating | : 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.
Author | : Jennifer L. Allen |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2022-03-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780674249141 |
ISBN-13 | : 0674249143 |
Rating | : 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
To reclaim a sense of hope for the future, German activists in the late twentieth century engaged ordinary citizens in innovative projects that resisted alienation and disenfranchisement. By most accounts, the twentieth century was not kind to utopian thought. The violence of two world wars, Cold War anxieties, and a widespread sense of crisis after the 1973 global oil shock appeared to doom dreams of a better world. The eventual victory of capitalism and, seemingly, liberal democracy relieved some fears but exchanged them for complacency and cynicism. Not, however, in West Germany. Jennifer Allen showcases grassroots activism of the 1980s and 1990s that envisioned a radically different society based on community-centered politicsÑa society in which the democratization of culture and power ameliorated alienation and resisted the impotence of end-of-history narratives. BerlinÕs History Workshop liberated research from university confines by providing opportunities for ordinary people to write and debate the story of the nation. The Green Party made the politics of direct democracy central to its program. Artists changed the way people viewed and acted in public spaces by installing objects in unexpected environments, including the Stolpersteine: paving stones, embedded in residential sidewalks, bearing the names of Nazi victims. These activists went beyond just trafficking in ideas. They forged new infrastructures, spaces, and behaviors that gave everyday people real agency in their communities. Undergirding this activism was the environmentalist concept of sustainability, which demanded that any alternative to existing society be both enduring and adaptable. A rigorous but inspiring tale of hope in action, Sustainable Utopias makes the case that it is still worth believing in human creativity and the labor of citizenship.