Wisdom In The University

Author : Peter D. Eckel,Cathy A. Trower
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000978209

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Practical Wisdom by Peter D. Eckel,Cathy A. Trower Pdf

Co-published with This series of essays written for trustees and administrative leaders of universities and colleges draws on the authors’ extensive consulting experience, research into the dynamics of boards, and service as trustees, to focus on practical insights that will help readers improve governance. The authors have contributed a series of essays on governing well to Inside Higher Education, which formed the inspiration for this volume.The primary aim of the book is to provide insight that boards can use to enhance their governing practices. The author’s take is not a “how to do” book but rather one on “how to think.” Their basic premise is that too many boards are underperforming because they adopt or continue ineffective practices. However, thinking in more intentional if not new ways about not only what they do as boards, but how they go about their efforts, will help boards add value to the institutions and state systems they govern. The authors use thought provoking-titles and a conversational tone to engage the readers, get them to reflect on their work, and broaden their horizons.

Author : Ronald Barnett,Nicholas Maxwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317995906

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Wisdom in the University by Ronald Barnett,Nicholas Maxwell Pdf

This provocative and challenging book questions how people think about what universities should seek to do and how they should respond to the grave problems of our age. It addresses issues such as: What is wisdom? Ought universities to seek, promote and teach wisdom and what would this involve? Does it mean we need a revolution in the aims and methods of academic inquiry? What implications would the pursuit of wisdom have for science, for social inquiry and the humanities, for education? Is it reasonable to ask of universities that they take up the task of helping humanity learn how to create a wiser world? Is there a religious dimension to wisdom? What can non-academics do to encourage universities to take wisdom seriously? Would the pursuit of wisdom be possible given that universities are increasingly subjected to commercial pressures? With contributions from leading experts in various fields Wisdom in the University is essential reading for all those interested in the future of universities and philosophy of education. This book was previously published as a special issue of London Review of Education

Author : James Axtell,William R Kenan Professor of Humanities James Axtell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780691247588

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Wisdom's Workshop by James Axtell,William R Kenan Professor of Humanities James Axtell Pdf

An essential history of the modern research university When universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research university from its roots in medieval Europe to its remarkable incarnation today, Wisdom's Workshop places this durable institution in sweeping historical perspective. In particular, James Axtell focuses on the ways that the best American universities took on Continental influences, developing into the finest expressions of the modern university and enviable models for kindred institutions worldwide. Despite hand-wringing reports to the contrary, the venerable university continues to renew itself, becoming ever more indispensable to society in the United States and beyond. Born in Europe, the university did not mature in America until the late nineteenth century. Once its heirs proliferated from coast to coast, their national role expanded greatly during World War II and the Cold War. Axtell links the legacies of European universities and Tudor-Stuart Oxbridge to nine colonial and hundreds of pre–Civil War colleges, and delves into how U.S. universities were shaped by Americans who studied in German universities and adapted their discoveries to domestic conditions and goals. The graduate school, the PhD, and the research imperative became and remain the hallmarks of the American university system and higher education institutions around the globe. A rich exploration of the historical lineage of today's research universities, Wisdom's Workshop explains the reasons for their ascendancy in America and their continued international preeminence.

Author : Peter Milward
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 1555916511

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Wisdom and the Well-rounded Life by Peter Milward Pdf

Reflections on the pursuit of knowledge in higher education, and in life.

Author : Nicholas Maxwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1845405730

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How Universities Can Help Create a Wiser World by Nicholas Maxwell Pdf

In order to make progress towards a better world we need to learn how to do it. And for that we need institutions of learning rationally designed and devoted to helping us solve our global problems, make progress towards a better world. It is just this that we lack at present. Our universities pursue knowledge. They are neither designed nor devoted to helping humanity learn how to tackle global problems — problems of living — in more intelligent, humane and effective ways. That, this book argues, is the key disaster of our times, the crisis behind all the others: our failure to have developed our institutions of learning so that they are rationally organized to help us solve our problems of living — above all, our global problems. Having universities devoted almost exclusively to the pursuit of knowledge is a recipe for disaster. Scientific knowledge and technological know-how have unquestionably brought great benefits to humanity. But they have also made possible — even caused — our current global crises, above all the impending crisis of global warming. In this lucid and provocative book, Nicholas Maxwell argues convincingly that we need urgently to bring about a revolution in universities round the world so that their basic aim becomes wisdom, and not just knowledge.

Author : Robert J. Sternberg,Judith Glück
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781108841559

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Wisdom by Robert J. Sternberg,Judith Glück Pdf

Humanity is getting smarter all the time, but we urgently need to become wiser. This book explains how.

Author : Peter Milward
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781555918286

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Wisdom and the Well-Rounded Life by Peter Milward Pdf

Reflecting on the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom in higher education and in life, this thoughtful treatise considers the roots and philosophical underpinnings of university education. Examining such subjects as philosophy, science, nature, art, religion, and finding one's place in the world, Peter Milward shares his sage thoughts on obtaining a well-rounded base of knowledge.

Author : Nikunj Dalal,Ali Intezari,Marty Heitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317076599

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Practical Wisdom in the Age of Technology by Nikunj Dalal,Ali Intezari,Marty Heitz Pdf

The dramatic recent advances and emergent trends in technologies have brought to the fore many vital and challenging questions and dilemmas for leaders and organizations. These are issues that call for a critical, insightful examination of key questions such as: are modern technologies beneficial or problematic for the well-being of individuals, organizations, and societies at large; why do we seem to feel more disconnected in an age of technological connectivity; can organizations reduce technology-induced stresses and find ways to enable the mindful use of technologies and how can organizations, governments and societies manage the use of technologies wisely? Such questions, when explored from various perspectives of wisdom, can yield significant insights, increase awareness of the issues, deepen the dialogue and help redesign an increasingly technology-driven future. However, there is little researched published material available on such questions and issues. Practical Wisdom in the Age of Technology: Insights, Issues and Questions for a New Millennium will provide a space to engage in thought-provoking dialogue and critical reflection on a variety of themes linking technology and practical wisdom. It will offer a foundation for exploration, inquiry, engagement, and discussion among organizational, political and social leaders, technology professionals, information systems academicians, wisdom researchers, managers, philosophers of technology, and other practitioners.

Author : Global University
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0761712518

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Wisdom Literature by Global University Pdf

Author : Mary Midgley
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415028301

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Wisdom, Information, and Wonder by Mary Midgley Pdf

In this book one of Britain's leading popular philosophers tackles a question that is at the root of our civilization: What is knowledge for?

Author : Vanessa McCallum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : College students
ISBN : 0977508013

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University Wisdom by Vanessa McCallum Pdf

University Wisdom is a practical student guide for planning setting and achieving goals for personal success Discover the Secrets of Getting the Most from Your Experience at University and use them as Stepping-Stones to Launch Your Life and Career ... Publisher description.

Author : Zane Ma Rhea
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 1349677868

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Wisdom, Knowledge, and the Postcolonial University in Thailand by Zane Ma Rhea Pdf

This book examines Thai knowledge and wisdom from the perspective of postmodern, postcolonial globalization. Ma Rhea explores the ways in which the Thai university system attempts to balance old knowledge traditions, Buddhist and rural, with new Thai and imported knowledge. It traces the development of Thai university partnerships with outsiders, focusing on the seventy year relationship between Thailand and Australia. In comparison, it analyses the old Thai Buddhist wisdom tradition and in the final chapters proposes its worthiness as a pedagogical pathway for universities globally.

Author : Joy Higgs
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004410497

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Practice Wisdom by Joy Higgs Pdf

Practice Wisdom: Values and Interpretations brings diverse views and interpretations to an exploration of what wisdom in professional practice means and can become: academically, practically and inspirationally.

Author : Robert V Bullough,John R Rosenberg
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780813599915

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Schooling, Democracy, and the Quest for Wisdom by Robert V Bullough,John R Rosenberg Pdf

A tremendous amount of energy has been expended by organizations to coordinate "partner schools" for teacher education. Bullough and Rosenberg examine the concept of partnering through various lenses and they address what they think are the major issues that need to be, but rarely are, discussed by thousands of educators.

Author : Thomas C. Priester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Academic achievement
ISBN : OCLC:1319299374

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Foundations of Academic Success: Words of Wisdom by Thomas C. Priester Pdf