Ronald Barnett is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at the Institute of Education, London.

In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions - so the world can read them in a single manageable volume, allowing readers to follow the themes of their work and see how it contributes to the development of the field.

Introduction

Part 1: The University

1. Supercomplexity and the University
2. Situating the Learning University
3. Recapturing the Universal in the University
4. The Idea of the University in the Twenty-First Century: Where's the Imagination?
5. The Coming of the Ecological University

Part 2: Higher Education

6. Higher Education: legitimation crisis
7. Does Higher Education have Aims?
8. Convergence in Higher Education: The Strange Case of Entrepreneurialism
9. The Purpose of Higher Education and the Changing Face of Academia
10. Institutions of Higher Education: purposes and 'performance indicators'

Part 3: Students and learning

11. Supercomplexity and the Curriculum
12. Learning about Learning: a conundrum and a possible resolution
13. Being and Becoming: a student trajectory
14. Learning for an Unknown Future
15. Configuring Learning Spaces: Noticing the Invisible

Coda

Bibliography

Index