Trusting in the University The Contribution of Temporality and Trust to a Praxis of Higher Learning /

• Main Author: Gibbs, Paul T. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2004.
• Subjects: Education.; Higher education.; Higher Education.; Education, general.

The world in which we learn is changing rapidly. That rapidity is driven by a range of influences, conveniently, but inadequately, clustered under the rubric of globalisation. . The context in which globalisation and education is often linked is that of progression, progression realisable through te...

Table of Contents:

• Liberalism, Mass Education and a Loss of Academic Trust
• The Market Metaphor — A Good Basis for Trust?
• What Form of Trust Might be Appropriate for Universities to Build a Praxis of Higher Education Designed to Encourage Authenticity?
• Education in a Culture of Suspicion?
• If Not the Market Model, then Perhaps a Heideggerian Perspective?
• A University’s Authenticity is in its Community
• Trusting in Thinking about Knowing
• Trusting in Teaching to Let Learn
• A Trusting Praxis for Higher Education Institutions
• Reflections.