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Barnett, Ronald – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2014
The rationale for retaining the humanities in universities in the 21st century is not self-evident. A case for the humanities can only be fully made against a sense of their loss or their absence. Some say that we are already in a post-human society, but what role might the humanities play in such a society? Presumably, the fate of the humanities…
Descriptors: Humanities, Humanities Instruction, Higher Education, Post High School Guidance
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Barnett, Ronald – Oxford Review of Education, 2011
What is it to be a university? In what does the being of the university reside in the 21st century? To draw on a Heideggerian expression, what is its "being possible"? To address such questions seriously, we are drawn to imagine the university as it might unfold and so sketch out feasible utopias for it. But such a project of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Role, Imagination, Futures (of Society)