This insightful selection, features four discourses from The Idea of a University: Knowledge Its Own End; Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Learning; Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Professional Skill; and Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Religion.

This book provides a comprehensive and existential theory of individual learning throughout the lifespan.

The leading authorities in the field produced this comprehensive resource, which provides strategies and methods for fostering Transformative Learning (TL) practice in a wide variety of higher and adult education settings.

Providing insight into the background, theory and practical applications of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in the Higher Education sector; this book examines and shares best practice in UDL implementation worldwide.

The book views the contemporary economy as an economy of persuasion where firms and institutions assign resources to rhetoric, image and reputation rather than production of goods and services. It examines critically phenomena such as the knowledge society, consumption, higher education, organizational change, professionalization and leadership

With a focus on improving student experiences in higher education, this book explores the challenge through a 'third space' perspective.

Providing a complex and challenging education in research, the PhD is unlike other degrees and at its heart is the key educational role of supervisor. This book explores the experience of supervision and the PhD, drawing on a range of key viewpoints to further understanding of this complex educational experience.

In this unique work, the authors explore teachers' beliefs about university students' performance and expose which beliefs are well-founded, which are mistaken, which mask other underlying factors, and what they can do about them.

Every business and organization today needs to impress stakeholders with its ethics policy. This reflects the increasing emphasis on ethics in public and professional life, evident in the way the UK Council for Industry and Higher Education encourages universities to develop their own ethics policies. Universities, Ethics and Professio

Former Universities and Science Minister David Willetts combines a passionate advocacy of the value of a university education with a serious in-depth knowledge of the higher education sector to present his vision of what our universities can offer us-both now and in the future.

This book examines the factors contributing to the transformation of the university from the site of culture and knowledge to what might be termed an 'information factory', and explores how members of the academic community might continue to 'dwell in the ruins of the university' in a productive and authentic way.

A study of the modern American University and its history. The book argues that now the nation-state is in decline, and national culture no longer needs promoting or protecting, universities are turning into transnational corporations, driven by market forces to achieve excellence.

This ground-breaking book, now available in paperback for the first time, looks at the theory and practice of learning and how universities can improve their quality and competence.