ABSTRACT
Understanding the University constitutes the final volume in a trilogy – the first two books having been Being a University (2010) and Imagining the University (2012) – and represents the trilogy’s ultimate aims and endeavours. The three volumes together offer a unique attempt at a fairly systematic and exhaustive level to map out just what it might be seriously to understand the extraordinarily complex entity that is known across the world as ‘the university’.
Through examination of the conditions and possibilities underlying and affecting universities, this work offers an understanding of specific ideas of the university which can inform policies, strategies and practices in relation to the university.
This book is a must read for leaders and senior managers in universities , as well as those undertaking postgraduate studies in the policy and practice of higher education.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |42 pages
Planes of understanding
chapter |13 pages
Reading the University
chapter |13 pages
The Great Hole
chapter |14 pages
Three Planes of Understanding
part |27 pages
The antagonistic university
chapter |12 pages
Antagonisms
chapter |13 pages
Seven Forms of Dialectic
part |57 pages
Glimpsing spaces
chapter |14 pages
The Possibility of Possibilities
chapter |13 pages
An Inevitable Remainder
chapter |14 pages
The Real Thing
chapter |14 pages
Holding Together
part |41 pages
Positive moments