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This book offers philosophical readings of the contemporary university and is motivated by a series of pressing challenges in the global context of Higher Education. It argues that the university is a place for community, for refuge, for enlightenment and the careful questioning of knowledge, but it is also a place for visceral ambition and for intellectual cowardice, for blinkered individualism and professional competitiveness.

In the context of a highly competitive post-crash global economy, contemporary students are placed under increasing pressure to distinguish themselves from their peers via a portfolio of learning excellence and extracurricular achievement. Growing numbers undertake part or full-time employment in order to cover registration fees and the basic costs of living. University staff take on very different forms of pressure that operate across the life-course of an academic career – from early-career anxieties to the worries of more privileged and permanent faculty who fear they do not meet ever-changing structures, assumptions and demands of the university itself.

This book argues that these interlinked agendas demand consideration from philosophers of education in Ireland, Europe and further afield. It proposes that we must embody a very careful balancing act: one where we remember the romantic ideals and promises of the university while still acknowledging the very real and pressing challenges faced by our staff and students. The book will be of interest to academics, graduate students, and advanced-level undergraduates in Philosophy, Education, Mental Health, and Organizational Psychology in both North America and Europe.

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2108000376	EB0003662	378.001 The	Central Library (OPAC)	Available

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Series Title: -
Call Number: 378.001 The
Publisher: Singapore : Springer Singapore., 2022
Collation: VII, 213p.:Ill
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 978-981-16-5277-6
Classification: 378.001
Content Type: Ebook
Media Type: -
Carrier Type: online resource
Edition: 1
Subject(s): Education, Higher--Philosophy
Specific Detail Info: -
Statement of Responsibility: BRF

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The Promise of the University

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