| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 152 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-146) and index. |
| Contents |
Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 The Public in Retreat; Chapter 2 Social Imaginaries; Chapter 3 Civic Imaginaries; Chapter 4 Cosmopolitan Imaginaries; Interlude: From Imaginaries to Actualities; Chapter 5 Human Capability; Chapter 6 Human Reasoning; Chapter 7 Human Purpose; Chapter 8 The Return of the Public; Coda: A Sense of Possibility; References; Index. |
| Summary |
What constitutes the public good in a highly individualistic, consumerist and privatized society?. The global financial crisis of 2008 revealed the extent to which the public realm had been eroded over the last thirty years and the inroads that privatization and commercialization have made into the higher education sector. This book explores the institutional and sector-wide implications of the financial crisis for higher education - and the lessons to be learnt from that crisis and its aftermath for the university sector as a whole. Jon Nixon argues that the university now has to be re-imagin. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Education, Higher -- Philosophy.
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Education, Higher -- Philosophy. |
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Universities and colleges.
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Universities and colleges. |
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Common good.
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Common good. |
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Community life.
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Community life. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nixon, Jon. Higher education and the public good. London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, ©2011 9780826437433 (DLC) 2010010987 (OCoLC)586123248 |
| ISBN |
9781441186102 (electronic book) |
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1441186107 (electronic book) |
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1282912658 |
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9781282912656 |
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9780826437433 |
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0826437435 |
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