R Barnett
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 30070 |
|---|---|
| NOME | R Barnett |
| PRENOMES | R |
| SOBRENOME | Barnett |
| ASSINATURA | BARNETT R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6850-7639 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 284 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1966 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
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Planetary health as a troubling concept for the ecological university
This paper contributes new insights into a topic of contemporary significance to higher education in general, and more particularly to this journal – that of the role and responsibility of the university in the context of socio-ecological crises. Specifically, it explores the (hitherto unexamined) relationships between the ideas of the ecological university and planetary health and the ways in which the latter might inform or ‘trouble’ the former…
Experiments in decolonizing the university
Gaza
Nuraan DavidsStellenbosch UniversityI don’t think we need to wait for history to tell us what we already know about Gaza. No amount of legal debates on the plausibility of its genocide status, can
Seven pains of writing
Academic writing is a complex and often painful process, made more difficult by the alienating pressures placed on academics to publish. In this paper, we offer an analysis of this pain that is both phenomenological and realist. We draw on literatures from several disciplines and our own experiences as academic writers to identify seven ‘pains’, each of which represents a particular set of discomforts generated by the act of academic writing, esp…
The Dissolution and Reemergence of the Public University Amid Changing State-University Relationships
Crisis, what crisis? Real impairments and absences in the ecosystems of higher education
Are the many crises of higher education real, or are they in the eye of the beholder? They are evidently something of both: The crises to which we are characteristically alerted are manifestations in the real of the world and indicate much about our scholars' perceptions and even their values. To say this, however, invites the question: can we sort the wheat from the chaff? Might there be a way of validating any effort to identify a crisis that l…
On Newton Harrison
I met Newton (Fig. 1) in 2017, when I interviewed to work in his studio. A small local ad for a part-time studio assistant mentioned the Center for the Study of the Force Majeure in the small print. My first exploration of the work of the Harrisons blew my mind, while resonating deeply in the way that only clear truth does. Newton responded to my application, inviting me to an interview at which he intended to “see if it were true” that I was as …
Transdisciplinarity
The socially responsible European university
Purpose This paper aims to propose a thesis about the historical evolution of the relationship of the European University in relation to the idea of social responsibility. Design/methodology/approach This paper is philosophical, conceptual and theoretical and in proffering a bold thesis, has an argumentative character appropriate to that style. Findings Three stages can be identified over the past 200 years in the relationship between the univers…
Raising Regional Academic Voices (Alongside Data) in Higher Education (HE) Debate
The activist university
At first sight, the very term ‘the activist university’ may seem strange. Universities have to be active in all manner of ways – insofar as we can attribute actions to large complex institutions – but ‘activist’? An activist is someone who takes up the cudgels in a cause, who contends against an enemy and demonstrates for and even fights for a cause. Students may be activists in movements of radical politics and can be seen resisting and even att…
Locating the philosophy of higher education – and the conditions of a philosophy of higher education
Public intellectuals in the age of viral modernity
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Routledge in Educational Philosophy and Theory on 07/12/2021, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.2010543 \nThe accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version
The State, Public Universities and Public Goods
Reimagining the new pedagogical possibilities for universities post-Covid-19
Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to ‘normality’, trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to acknowledge the rupture. But the rupture exists. And in the midst of this terrible despair, it offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine we have built for ourselves. Nothing could be worse than a return to normality. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their worl…
Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment
Consensus and dissensus
In this paper, the public dimension of universities in Chile is examined. Interviews were held with academics at both public and private well-established universities and new private universities. The analysis shows a consensus regarding the production of certain public goods such as knowledge, wider access and the promotion of a public sphere. It also reveals a dissensus such that academics at well-established universities tend to maintain a sta…
The effect of slalom practice on handgrip strength of water-skiing athletes with paraplegia
In water skiing, people who experience paraplegia ski in a sitting position, and they rely on hand grip strength (HGS) to grab the tow rope handle and run slalom passes. This study evaluated the immediate effects on maximum HGS after the practice of disabled water skiing, a still unknown aspect. In the dominant hand, maximum HGS was measured by hand-grip dynamometry after 14 practices of four male water skiers with complete spinal cord injury par…
Patterns of theory use in qualitative research in higher education studies in Latin America
The relationship between theory and qualitative research has been extensively examined in the literature and has emerged as a problematic matter. This debate has been driven forward mainly in Anglo-Saxon countries and has done scant justice to an understanding of these issues in regions of the South. This paper addresses this matter by drawing on a geopolitical perspective. The study here provides an analysis of 24 papers by Latin-American resear…
Knowledge and the University
For hundreds of years, knowledge has been central in understanding the university. Over recent decades, however, it is the economic value of knowledge that has come to the fore. Now, in a post-truth world, knowledge is also treated with suspicion and has become a vehicle for ideologies. Knowledge and the University combats all these ways of thinking. Its central claim is that knowledge is of value because of its connection with life. Knowledge is…
The University after postmodernism
The University after postmodernism: An ecological approach." Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50(14), pp. 1537–1538
Eco-dreams and university geopolitics
Confronting the Dark Side of Higher Education
In this paper we philosophically explore the notion of darkness within higher education teaching and learning. Within the present-day discourse of how to make visible and to explicate teaching and learning strategies through alignment procedures and evidence-based intellectual leadership, we argue that dark spots and blind angles grow too. As we struggle to make visible and to evaluate, assess, manage and organise higher education, the darkness o…
Constructing the university
Almost 40 years ago, a book appeared by J.S. Brubacher entitled On the Philosophy of Higher Education. Today, we have neither its successor nor a sense as to what such a book might contain. The argument here is that we currently lack a recognised subfield of study that might be termed 'the philosophy of higher education'. The paper attempts to begin to remedy this situation by assembling the main planks of such a field, and identifying broadly th…
Learning for an unknown future
What is it to learn for an unknown future? It might be said that the future has always been unknown but our opening question surely takes on a new pedagogical challenge if not urgency in the contem
Knowing and becoming in the higher education curriculum
If a curriculum in higher education is understood to be an educational vehicle to promote a student's development, and if a curriculum in higher education is also understood to be built in large part around a project of knowledge, then the issue arises as to the links between knowledge and student being and becoming. A distinction is made here between knowing as such and coming to know, with the focus on the latter. It is argued that the process …
Reimagining the new pedagogical possibilities for universities post-Covid-19
Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to ‘normality’, trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to acknowledge the rupture. But the rupture exists. And in the midst of this terrible despair, it offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine we have built for ourselves. Nothing could be worse than a return to normality. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their worl…
Supercomplexity and the Curriculum
For some time (around 100 years), the dominant influence in the shaping of curricula has been that of the academics in their separate knowledge fields. In the contemporary world, that academic hegemony is dissolving as curricula become subject to two contending patterns of change. Firstly, in a mass higher education system, there will be tendencies towards increased diversity in the components of curricula, the positioning of the providing instit…
Linking Teaching and Research
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRonald BarnettRonald Barnett is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Higher Education Studies, Institute of Education, University of London
Recapturing the Universal in the University
The idea of 'the university' has stood for universal themes—of knowing, of truthfulness, of learning, of human development, and of critical reason. Through its affirming and sustaining of such themes, the university came itself to stand for universality in at least two senses: the university was neither partial (in its truth criteria) nor local in its significance (at least, the university was an institution of the nation state and even had globa…
The neighbourhood effects of geographical access to tobacco retailers on individual smoking behaviour
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether neighbourhood measures of geographical accessibility to outlets selling tobacco (supermarkets, convenience stores and petrol stations) are associated with individual smoking behaviour in New Zealand. METHODS: Using geographical information systems, travel times from the population-weighted centroid of each neighbourhood to the closest outlet selling tobacco were calculated for all 38,350 neighbourhoods across New…
Marketing time
In countries such as Chile in which a neoliberal economic approach is predominant, higher education systems are characterized by productivity, competition for resources and income generation, all of which have impact on academics' experiences of time. Through a qualitative approach in which 20 interviews and two focus groups were conducted, this study focuses on a public university in Chile and examines ways in which academics experience time. Th…
Does Higher Education have Aims
Journal Article Does Higher Education have Aims? Get access Ronald Barnett Ronald Barnett Correspondence: Ronald Barnett, Council for National Academic Awards, 344–354 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8BP, United Kingdom. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 22, Issue 2, December 1988, Pages 239–250, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1988.tb00197.x Published: 30 May 2006
Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment
Constructing the university
Almost 40 years ago, a book appeared by J.S. Brubacher entitled On the Philosophy of Higher Education. Today, we have neither its successor nor a sense as to what such a book might contain. The argument here is that we currently lack a recognised subfield of study that might be termed 'the philosophy of higher education'. The paper attempts to begin to remedy this situation by assembling the main planks of such a field, and identifying broadly th…
Academic Hospitality
Academic hospitality is a feature of academic life. It takes many forms. It takes material form in the hosting of academics giving papers. It takes epistemological form in the welcome of new ideas. It takes linguistic form in the translation of academic work into other languages, and it takes touristic form through the welcome and generosity with which academic visitors are received. These forms intersect each other and may co-exist at any one ti…
Models of professional preparation
The study focuses on three areas of initial professional education at degree level—pharmacy, nursing and teacher education. All three are associated with professions where individual clients' needs are significant—the so-called caring professions. The project was conducted largely through interviews with teaching staff in both university and public sector institutions. The interviews focused on the interests, activities and values of the academic…
Public intellectuals in the age of viral modernity
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Routledge in Educational Philosophy and Theory on 07/12/2021, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.2010543 \nThe accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version
Consensus and dissensus
In this paper, the public dimension of universities in Chile is examined. Interviews were held with academics at both public and private well-established universities and new private universities. The analysis shows a consensus regarding the production of certain public goods such as knowledge, wider access and the promotion of a public sphere. It also reveals a dissensus such that academics at well-established universities tend to maintain a sta…
Academic Travel
The Great Khan's atlas contains also the maps of the promised lands visited in thought but not yet discovered or founded: New Atlantis, Utopia, the City of the Sun, Oceana, Tamoé, New Harmony, New Lanark, Icaria. Kublai asked Marco: ‘You, who go about exploring and who see signs, can you tell me towards which of these futures the favouring winds are driving us?’ —Italo Calvino, I. Invisible Cities. London: Picador 1974
Locating the philosophy of higher education – and the conditions of a philosophy of higher education
Academic Fragilities in a Marketised Age
Academics are confronted with multiple and conflicting narratives as to what it is to be an academic. Their identities, however, are not entirely of their own making. Through a qualitative study, and deploying a social realist perspective, this paper analyses academic identities in Chile and attempts to locate the patterns of identity in the context of a marketised higher education system. The data were collected in both a state and a private uni…
The State, Public Universities and Public Goods
Confronting the Dark Side of Higher Education
In this paper we philosophically explore the notion of darkness within higher education teaching and learning. Within the present-day discourse of how to make visible and to explicate teaching and learning strategies through alignment procedures and evidence-based intellectual leadership, we argue that dark spots and blind angles grow too. As we struggle to make visible and to evaluate, assess, manage and organise higher education, the darkness o…
Being and becoming
What is it to become a student? Higher education is an institution deliberately designed to sustain differentiated and public forms of human experience and seeks to enable individuals to get on the inside of those external forms of experience. The student experience of so doing is, however, a private affair. How do we make sense of this interaction of the private and public realms of the student experience? In coming into a proper relationship wi…
The Idea of Academic Administration
Academic administration is not to be construed simply as a technical practice, the development of efficient management systems, nor as reactive, as response to the collective views of the academic community, nor in terms of academic leadership, the establishment and implementation of institutional aims. A full account of academic administration will provide a sense of the integral relationship between the academic administrator and the academic c…
Gaza
Nuraan DavidsStellenbosch UniversityI don’t think we need to wait for history to tell us what we already know about Gaza. No amount of legal debates on the plausibility of its genocide status, can
Patterns of theory use in qualitative research in higher education studies in Latin America
The relationship between theory and qualitative research has been extensively examined in the literature and has emerged as a problematic matter. This debate has been driven forward mainly in Anglo-Saxon countries and has done scant justice to an understanding of these issues in regions of the South. This paper addresses this matter by drawing on a geopolitical perspective. The study here provides an analysis of 24 papers by Latin-American resear…
Knowledge and the University
For hundreds of years, knowledge has been central in understanding the university. Over recent decades, however, it is the economic value of knowledge that has come to the fore. Now, in a post-truth world, knowledge is also treated with suspicion and has become a vehicle for ideologies. Knowledge and the University combats all these ways of thinking. Its central claim is that knowledge is of value because of its connection with life. Knowledge is…
Homme masqué ou dieu-ibex
Models of professional preparation
The study focuses on three areas of initial professional education at degree level—pharmacy, nursing and teacher education. All three are associated with professions where individual clients' needs are significant—the so-called caring professions. The project was conducted largely through interviews with teaching staff in both university and public sector institutions. The interviews focused on the interests, activities and values of the academic…
Entry and Exit Performance Indicators for Higher Education
The recent re‐emergence of an interest in the relationships between A levels and degree performance can be viewed in the context of the work of the planning bodies for higher education, and the associated drive to secure reliable performance indicators for planning purposes. However, a number of tacit but questionable assumptions can be seen to underlie the traditional model of students’ performance at the points of entry and exit. Once those ass…
Does Higher Education have Aims
Journal Article Does Higher Education have Aims? Get access Ronald Barnett Ronald Barnett Correspondence: Ronald Barnett, Council for National Academic Awards, 344–354 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8BP, United Kingdom. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 22, Issue 2, December 1988, Pages 239–250, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1988.tb00197.x Published: 30 May 2006
The Idea of Higher Education
Factors and Conditions Conducive to Academic Freedom
Linking Teaching and Research
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRonald BarnettRonald Barnett is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Higher Education Studies, Institute of Education, University of London
The Idea of Academic Administration
Academic administration is not to be construed simply as a technical practice, the development of efficient management systems, nor as reactive, as response to the collective views of the academic community, nor in terms of academic leadership, the establishment and implementation of institutional aims. A full account of academic administration will provide a sense of the integral relationship between the academic administrator and the academic c…
Being and becoming
What is it to become a student? Higher education is an institution deliberately designed to sustain differentiated and public forms of human experience and seeks to enable individuals to get on the inside of those external forms of experience. The student experience of so doing is, however, a private affair. How do we make sense of this interaction of the private and public realms of the student experience? In coming into a proper relationship wi…
University knowledge in an age of supercomplexity
Thinking the University, Again
Supercomplexity and the Curriculum
For some time (around 100 years), the dominant influence in the shaping of curricula has been that of the academics in their separate knowledge fields. In the contemporary world, that academic hegemony is dissolving as curricula become subject to two contending patterns of change. Firstly, in a mass higher education system, there will be tendencies towards increased diversity in the components of curricula, the positioning of the providing instit…
Academics as intellectuals
Academic life in the UK is striking for the degree to which it is separated from the wider society and, particularly so, so far as the humanities and the social sciences are concerned. Whether the
Revolving doors
Learning for an unknown future
What is it to learn for an unknown future? It might be said that the future has always been unknown but our opening question surely takes on a new pedagogical challenge if not urgency in the contem
Academic Travel
The Great Khan's atlas contains also the maps of the promised lands visited in thought but not yet discovered or founded: New Atlantis, Utopia, the City of the Sun, Oceana, Tamoé, New Harmony, New Lanark, Icaria. Kublai asked Marco: ‘You, who go about exploring and who see signs, can you tell me towards which of these futures the favouring winds are driving us?’ —Italo Calvino, I. Invisible Cities. London: Picador 1974
Recapturing the Universal in the University
The idea of 'the university' has stood for universal themes—of knowing, of truthfulness, of learning, of human development, and of critical reason. Through its affirming and sustaining of such themes, the university came itself to stand for universality in at least two senses: the university was neither partial (in its truth criteria) nor local in its significance (at least, the university was an institution of the nation state and even had globa…
Academic Hospitality
Academic hospitality is a feature of academic life. It takes many forms. It takes material form in the hosting of academics giving papers. It takes epistemological form in the welcome of new ideas. It takes linguistic form in the translation of academic work into other languages, and it takes touristic form through the welcome and generosity with which academic visitors are received. These forms intersect each other and may co-exist at any one ti…
Do smoking cessation programmes influence geographical inequalities in health? An evaluation of the impact of the Pegs programme in Christchurch, New Zealand
Although enrolees were drawn from a wide variety of backgrounds, those most likely to quit tended to reside in affluent areas or areas with a low proportion of Māori. There was no evidence that this smoking cessation programme increased or decreased inequalities within the Christchurch population. For smoking cessation programmes to have an impact on health inequalities more effort is required in targeting hard-to-reach groups and in encouraging …
The neighbourhood effects of geographical access to tobacco retailers on individual smoking behaviour
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether neighbourhood measures of geographical accessibility to outlets selling tobacco (supermarkets, convenience stores and petrol stations) are associated with individual smoking behaviour in New Zealand. METHODS: Using geographical information systems, travel times from the population-weighted centroid of each neighbourhood to the closest outlet selling tobacco were calculated for all 38,350 neighbourhoods across New…
Knowing and becoming in the higher education curriculum
If a curriculum in higher education is understood to be an educational vehicle to promote a student's development, and if a curriculum in higher education is also understood to be built in large part around a project of knowledge, then the issue arises as to the links between knowledge and student being and becoming. A distinction is made here between knowing as such and coming to know, with the focus on the latter. It is argued that the process …
Stephanie J. Snow, Blessed Days of Anaesthesia
Reading Stephanie Snow's excellent new book, one cannot help wondering whether John Snow—so often presented as a stereotypically dour Yorkshireman—came to regard his growing reputation as an anaesthetist with a certain degree of ambivalence. After administering ‘chloroform á la reine’ to Queen Victoria during the birth of Prince Leopold in 1853, Snow came under constant pressure from his patients to reveal the secrets of the Royal confinement. On…
Quality of Life Among Individuals with HIV Starting Antiretroviral Therapy in Diverse Resource-Limited Areas of the World
Response to Pavel Zgaga’s Review of Being a University
Imagining the University
Around the world, what it is to be a university is a matter of much debate. The range of ideas of the university in public circulation is, however, exceedingly narrow and is dominated by the idea of the entrepreneurial university. As a consequence, the debate is hopelessly impoverished. Lurking in the literature, there is a broad and even imaginative array of ideas of the university, but those ideas are seldom heard. We need, consequently, not ju…
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