The Crisis of the Democratic Intellect
Author : George Elder Davie
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Education
ISBN :
The Crisis of the Democratic Intellect
Author : George Elder Davie
Publisher :
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 23,30 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780948275203
Book Description
The Democratic Intellect
Author : George Elder Davie
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Education
ISBN :
Book Description
"Scotland has always had a distinctive approach to higher education. From the inauguration of its first universities, the accent has been on first principles. This unified the approach to knowledge - even of mathematics and science - through a broad, philosophical interpretation. This generalist tradition, contrasting with the specialism of the two English universities, Oxford and Cambridge, stood Scotland in good stead. It characterised its intellectual life, even into the nineteenth century, when economic, social and political pressures enforced an increasing conformity to English models." [Publisher's description].
The Revival of the Democratic Intellect
Author : Andrew Lockhart Walker
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 28,69 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN :
Book Description
The Governance of British Higher Education
Author : Ted Tapper
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 2007-05-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 1402055536
Book Description
How has the system of governance changed? Do British higher education institutions still exercise autonomous control over their development? In this book, these questions are pursued through a three-pronged strategy. This book will have lessons for those examining higher education on a comparative/international basis. It is a serious piece of analysis i.e. it is purposefully non-polemical, and it is well-written, non-jargonised and accessible.
The Stranger Within
Author : Jean Barr
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9087905319
Book Description
The book is underpinned by philosophical, social and cultural studies and it draws specifically on radical adult education practices related to social movements and to liberating knowledge ‘from below’.
Spirits of the Age
Author : Paul Henderson Scott
Publisher : The Saltire Society
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 2005
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9780854110872
Book Description
Presents a collection of Scottish autobiographical essays of George Davie, David Daiches, Robin Jenkins, Muriel Spark, Tom Nairn, Edwin Morgan, Derick Thomson, Alastair Reid, Agnes Owens, Ronald Stevenson, Richard Demarco, Elizabeth Blackadder, Alasdair Gray, Stewart Conn, Hugh Pennington, Allan Massie, Duncan Macmillan, John Byrne, and others.
Jacques Derrida and the Institution of French Philosophy
Author : Vivienne Orchard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 14,21 MB
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1351194895
Book Description
"Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was unquestionably one of the most celebrated and reviled French thinkers of the last thirty years. Outside France his influence in comparative literature circles, through deconstruction and other ideas, has been so profound that his personal role as a leader of contemporary French philosophy has been almost overlooked. Perhaps because there is no equivalent in English-speaking countries to the timetabling of philosophy in the French education system, writers on Derrida outside France have not fully appreciated the importance of this political and cultural struggle. In this ground-breaking book, Orchard examines a hard-fought debate of great importance not only to Derrida himself, but also to France's idea of what studying 'philosophy' might mean after the student uprisings of 1968."
Retreat or Resolution?
Author : Scott, Peter
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1447363302
Book Description
Although higher education in the UK has expanded opportunities for much of the population, in many ways it remains stubbornly elitist. In order to address this crisis in education, Peter Scott, a leading expert and unique voice, examines the development of mass higher education and proposes a ‘radical escape-forward’. He calls for more robust action to secure fair access at all levels and changes in the governance and management at both system and institutional levels to ensure more democratic accountability. Setting out a clear and radical programme for reform, this book makes an important contribution to current debates in education in the context of the evolution of the UK economy and wider society.
Nationalisms Old and New
Author : Kevin J. Brehony
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 2016-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1349276278
Book Description
Nationalism is a collection of papers from the British Sociological Association conference, Worlds of the Future. The central themes of the conference were ethnicity and nationalism in the contemporary world. Older discourses on national sovereignty and statehood are evaluated in terms of their validity within a world increasingly defined by transnational integration and global economic competition.
