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The Idea of the University
This chapter explores some of the key issues that have beset English universities in the twenty first century with a summary of some key areas in...
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Prefiguring the Idea of the University for a Post-Capitalist Society: Towards a Co-operative University?
The previous chapter provided practical points of advice for anyone who might be interested in develo** an autonomous learning space or similar...
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Prefiguring the Idea of the University for a Post-Capitalist Society
Using an Open Marxist theoretical framework, this book provides a critique of the neoliberal reforms made to higher education since the late 1970s...
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The Idea and Becoming of a University Across Time and Space: Ivory Tower, Factory and Network
The modern university has grown from small scale, elite access institution, growing out of the Enlightenment period in Europe in the early nineteenth...
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Soothing the Self-Threat of Idea Theft
The creative process has the potential to increase wellbeing and foster human flourishing (Dolan and Metcalfe,
2012 ; Forgeard and Eichner,2014 ;...
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‘Whiteness is an immoral choice’: the idea of the University at the intersection of crises
Universities in the global North are shaped against intersecting crises, including those of political economy, environment and, more recently,...
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The Dissolution and Reemergence of the Public University Amid Changing State-University Relationships: The Chilean Case
This paper examines two under-researched aspects of the public university, that of its relationship with the state, and with private universities....
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Social inattentional blindness to idea stealing in meetings
Using a virtual reality social experiment, participants (N = 154) experienced being at the table during a decision-making meeting and identified the...
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The Idea of Merit: Delineation and Challenges
The idea of merit is at the core of intense contemporary debate related to social justice in general and meritocracy in particular. In this paper, I...
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Semantic associative abilities and executive control functions predict novelty and appropriateness of idea generation
Novelty and appropriateness are two fundamental components of creativity. However, the way in which novelty and appropriateness are separated at...
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The Idea
Every grant requires a central idea and you need to come up with it. This chapter provides some examples from the author’s own experience. Timing may...
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Additional Education as a Resource for Sustainable Development of a University
Modern conditions of rapid technology development require that hard and soft skills of future specialists in all spheres of economic activity of the...
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University
Zhejiang University has been a major mathematics center in southern China since 1930s, where the first modern mathematics seminar in China was born....
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The disarming simplicity of wicked problems: The biography of an idea
The idea of “wicked problems” indicates the intractability and dilemmatic nature of design and planning. At the same time, it also encourages the...
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An Examination of the Relationship between Idea Generation versus Idea Implementation and Subsequent Self-Efficacy and Positive Affect
The influence of positive affect on creativity at work is well established in the organizational psychology literature, but evidence about whether...
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Technopolitical Construction of a River Basin: Turkey’s Encounters and Adventures with the “TVA Idea”
In the postwar era, the preferred approach to harnessing rivers was through integrated river basin planning (IRBP), which required a holistic focus...
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University lecturers’ lived experiences of teaching critical thinking in Australian university: a hermeneutic phenomenological research
The study explores insights into the phenomenon of Australian lecturers’ lived experiences of teaching standalone critical thinking units within...
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The Nature of School-University Partnerships
A key element of success for school-university partnerships is the way that they are sensitive to their context and meet the needs of the parties...
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University teachers’ perspectives on student attendance: a challenge to the identity of university teachers before, during and after Covid-19
This article addresses university teachers’ perspectives, gathered via interviews, on issues involved in their students’ decreasing attendance in...
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Towards an Ubuntu University African Higher Education Reimagined
This book explores the argument to reconsider the idea of a university in light of the African ethic of ubuntu; literally, human dignity and...