Title The idea of higher education / Ronald Barnett

Published Milton Keynes [England] ; Philadelphia : Society for Research into Higher Education : Open University Press, 1990

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Description xii, 244 pages ; 24 cm Summary A statement of the aims of higher education. This book explores concepts such as culture, rationality, research and academic freedom and aims to provide a new approach to educational theory, embracing debates in social theory, critical theory and sociology of education and knowledge Analysis 00030 Great Britain 11030 higher education 30030 theories Educational objectives Educational philosophy Intellectual life Overseas item Sociology Tertiary education Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [232]-235) Subject Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- Great Britain. Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives. Education, Higher -- Philosophy. Education, Higher -- Great Britain -- Philosophy. Author Society for Research into Higher Education (Great Britain) LC no. 89048476 ISBN 0335094201 (paperback) 033509421X

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