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Educational Sciences / UPL in context
Curating the European University Exposition and Public Debate Maarten Simons, Mathias Decuypere, Joris Vlieghe, Jan Masschelein (eds)
€ 31,50 isbn 978 90 5867 874 4 02/2011 17 x 24 cm Paperback
The university is an institution that goes back to the Middle Ages. As universitas magistrorum et scholarium the university was a community of scholars and students gathered around books and preoccupied with study and the search for truth. But what is the role of the university today? The meaning of teaching, study, and research has changed. Screens are replacing books, online learning environments are replacing lecture halls, and students are becoming learners. In the context of a growing emphasis on innovation and development, competition among institutions, and the privatisation of knowledge, the role of communities of scholars and students is changing. Some argue that the university is entering a new phase, others claim that we face the end of the university. To address these issues a conference was organized with an exposition of projects involving new ways of publishing, alternative organizations of departments, proposals for open access and open source, and university architecture and accessibility. Each of the contributors reflects, from their exhibited project, on the challenges the university is facing today. More than a catalogue of different projects, Curating the European University offers a unique contribution to the public debate on the role of the university.
208 p. nur 840 English
maarten simons is Professor at the Laboratory for Education and Society and the Center for Educational Policy and Innovation, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
mathias decuypere is a doctoral student at the Laboratory for Education and Society, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
joris vlieghe is a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory for Education and Society, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
jan masschelein is Professor at the Laboratory for Education and Society, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
contributors Over 20 contributors including: Department 21 (Royal College of Art, London), Ann Heylighen and Greg Nijs (K.U.Leuven), Academy Commons (University of Barcelona), Wim Cuyvers (K.U.Leuven), Universities Allied for Essential Medicines – Europe, Maarten Van Den Driessche (University of Ghent), Brigitte Maréchal and Felice Dassetto (Cismoc-UCL), Rudi Kotnik (University of Maribor), Danny Wildemeersch (K.U.Leuven), Harold Jarning (Oslo University College), Valérie Mathieu (University of Liège), Susanne Umbach and Sinah Mielich (University of Hamburg), Wim Weymans (K.U.Leuven), Birgit Winkler (University of Vienna), Foteini Asderaki (University of Piraeus), Sinah Mielich and Susanne Umbach (University of Hamburg).
