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 208 p. nur 840 English 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.

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).

Un pèlerinage psycho-pédagogique aux États-Unis. Édition annotée et commentée du carnet de voyage (1922) de Raymond Buyse

Marc Depaepe & Lieven D’hulst (eds)

En 1922, Raymond Buyse, un jeune «pédologue» belge, entreprend, en compagnie du fameux docteur Ovide Decroly, un voyage d’études aux États-Unis d’Amérique. Les deux s’intéressent à l’étude «scientifique» de l’enfant et surtout à la psychologie appliquée américaine. Ils rencontrent des professeurs américains connus et visitent les universités qui développent ces aspects de la psychopédagogie. De retour en Belgique, ils consacrent plusieurs ouvrages et articles aux questions abordées au cours du voyage. On sait moins que Buyse tient, pendant le voyage, une sorte de journal, demeuré inédit jusqu’à ce jour. Dans un style alerte, Buyse livre les réflexions d’un voyageur curieux: pas seulement des impressions interculturelles et d’informations anecdotiques, mais également de fines observations suscitées par ses rencontres avec les «grands» psychologues et pédagogues de l’époque. C’est pourquoi cette édition ajoute une dimension nouvelle à l’étude de l’histoire des sciences psychopédagogiques en Belgique et bien au-delà.

In 1922,Raymond Buyse,a young Belgian ‘pedologist’,undertook,together with the famous Dr.Ovide Decroly,a study tour of the United States of America.Both were interested in the ‘scientific’ study of the child and especially in applied American psychology.They met well-known American professors and visited universities that were developing these aspects of educational psychology.Back in Belgium,they dedicated several books and articles to the issues discussed during the trip.Less known is that Raymond Buyse noted his impressions and reflections of the trip in a diary.Buyse writes in a lively style about his encounters with the ‘great’ psychologists and pedagogues of that time and in doing so this – until now unpublished – diary adds a new dimension to the study of the history of educational psychology in Belgium and far beyond.

€ 29,95 isbn 978 90 5867 875 1 05/2011 13,2 x 21 cm Paperback ca. 150 p. nur 849 French, English

Illustration: First page of Buyse's diary

marc depaepe teaches History of Education, Pedagogy and Psychology at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. lieven d’hulst teaches French Literature and Translation Studies. contributors Maartje Theuninck (K.U.Leuven)