Higher Education and the Public Good

Imagining the University

Professor Jon Nixon (The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

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Continuum Publishing Corporation
11 November 2010

Philosophy & theory of education; Higher & further education, tertiary education; Colleges of higher education; Educational equipment & technology, computer-aided learning (CAL)

What constitutes the public good in a highly individualistic, consumerist and privatized society?

The global financial crisis of 2008 revealed the extent to which the public realm had been eroded over the last thirty years and the inroads that privatization and commercialization have made into the higher education sector. This book explores the institutional and sector-wide implications of the financial crisis for higher education; and the lessons to be learnt from that crisis and its aftermath for the university sector as a whole.

Jon Nixon argues that the university now has to be re-imagined as a social, civic and cosmopolitan good that is central to the well-being of civil society and its citizens. Key chapters focus on capability, reasoning and purposefulness as the common resources of higher education. The book highlights the urgent need for sector-wide planning and collaboration, the development of a public culture across institutions, and a broadening of the higher education curriculum.

Higher Education and the Public Good points a way forward to the new and emergent civic and cosmopolitan spaces of learning.

By: Professor Jon Nixon (The Education University of Hong Kong Hong Kong)
Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 415g
ISBN: 9780826437433
ISBN 10: 0826437435
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 11 November 2010
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jon Nixon is Honorary Professor in the Centre for Lifelong Learning Research and Development, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong. He also lectures at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and holds an honorary chair at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Reviews for Higher Education and the Public Good: Imagining the University

'In this excellent book, Jon Nixon salvages higher education from the wreckage wrought by three decades of commercialisation, commodification, competition and classification. He articulates a powerful, cogent and realisable vision of higher education as a public good a site for the development of human capability, reason and purpose, existing within and contributing to the social interconnectivities of the res publica and cosmopolis.'--Sanford Lakoff 'Beautifully written, of wide scope and offering a much needed and humane vision of higher education as serving the public good - it is difficult to imagine a better book on the university than this. If only every university vice-chancellor and principal would pay it at least some attention.'--Ron Barnett, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education and Consultant, Institute of Education, University of London, UK