News and Coming Schedule
News
New book: (120,000 word) manuscript just delivered to Routledge: The Philosophy of Higher Education: Issues, Debates, Proposals
- The book surveys the whole field of the philosophy of higher education, with 20 essays, each devoted to a particular topic. The book goes into new areas, stretches the field and offers a way of proceeding - in short, a philosophy of the field.
International groups:
Over the last few weeks, have been or currently am a member of the following groups:
- Group convened by Keri Facer, leading to The Ekoln Letter: A Conversation about Universities in an Era of Climate Change:-Â https://climatechangeleadership.blog.uu.se/2021/03/23/the-ekoln-letter-a-conversation-about-universities-in-the-era-of-climatechange/Â (My own contributions are at pp51-54.)
- Una Europa - Future University Lab - One of a group of ‘Visionaries’: - have produced personal note in response to Q:- ‘How to facilitate mutual understanding and cooperation between various inter-university actors?’ Â
- UNESCO/ IESALC project on futures of higher education - one of 25 experts from across the world, and have produced ‘concept note’: ‘Towards the Ecological University’Â
- Aarhus University, Denmark: Impact in the Humanities - member of international research groupÂ
- World group developing ‘Declaration’ on education in the world (arising from 2019 Dharamsala (India) invitation seminar.Â
Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society:
- Recently elected as Inaugural President of this newly-created learned society
(https://pathes.org/)
Book Series
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With Soren Bengtsen, we are the academic editors for a Springer series on
Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives.
Please do be in touch with me if you have a possible idea for a volume in this series – ron.barnett@ucl.ac.uk
Coming schedule:
2021:
(Webinars)
- 24 February: 'Realising the Ecological University' - invited webinar, Copenhagen University
- 25 February: 'I don't have time to do research' - invited contribution to research day, Institute of Education, St Mary's University, UK
- 29 April: 'Academic development and public leadership: a tale of three cities', Invited contribution to seminar, Oslo University.