{"title":"Beyond instrumentality","authors":"Avijit Pathak","doi":"10.4324/9781003132035-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003132035-4","url":null,"abstract":"Avijit Pathak makes a passionate plea for evolving an educational system which seeks to strike a balance between creative and critical pursuit of knowledge and acquisition of the necessary skills which would make learners useful members of society. But what is happening is the systematic neglect of critical aspects of education that would enhance our ability to think and the reduction of education to a mere skill-acquiring enterprise. Unless the empowering and emancipatory potential of education is properly recognized, education will lose its relevance. The very spirit of higher education will be lost. One needs to be alert to attempts which seek to sabotage the higher principles of education. The growth of the consumer industry has only succeeded in commodifying education.","PeriodicalId":146466,"journal":{"name":"The Idea of a University","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115816599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some thoughts on university education","authors":"Romila Thapar","doi":"10.4324/9781003132035-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003132035-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":146466,"journal":{"name":"The Idea of a University","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132085565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"II. Catholic Literature in the English Tongue, I 854- I 858","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300153460-018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300153460-018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":146466,"journal":{"name":"The Idea of a University","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116963624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"III. Christianity and Physical Science A Lecture read in the School of Medicine. November, 1855","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300153460-019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300153460-019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":146466,"journal":{"name":"The Idea of a University","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116989503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reading The Idea of University","authors":"Zha Chang","doi":"10.12987/9780300153460-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300153460-003","url":null,"abstract":"The idea of a university is the foundation in its development process, especially in a global and marketable era. The meaning of the idea of university is in developing and changing along with the development of times, and embodies several characters, such as historicalness, times and individuality, etc. So, if we want to understand the meaning of the idea of a university, xve must put it into the background of history, culture and society.","PeriodicalId":146466,"journal":{"name":"The Idea of a University","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131483443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discourse I. Introductory","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300153460-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300153460-008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":146466,"journal":{"name":"The Idea of a University","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133649460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IV. Christianity and Scientific Investigation. A Lecture for the School of Science, 1855","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300153460-020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300153460-020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":146466,"journal":{"name":"The Idea of a University","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116085534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"The Paradox of Self in The Idea of a University\"","authors":"Sara Castro-klaren","doi":"10.12987/9780300153460-027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300153460-027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":146466,"journal":{"name":"The Idea of a University","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115162612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"III. Questions for Reflection","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300153460-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300153460-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":146466,"journal":{"name":"The Idea of a University","volume":"178 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116160417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Glossary of Names","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300153460-022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300153460-022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":146466,"journal":{"name":"The Idea of a University","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126791664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}