Title:
A will to learn : being a student in an age of uncertainty
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Publication Information:
Milton Keynes : Open University Press, 2007
ISBN:
9780335223817
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Summary
Summary
Examines the structure of what it is to have a will to learn. This book offers an idea of student development that challenges the dominant views of our age, of curricula understood in terms of skills and even of knowledge and pedagogy understood as bringing off pre-specified 'outcomes'.
Author Notes
Ronald Barnett is Professor of Higher Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Part 1 Being and becoming | p. 13 |
| 1 Where there's a will | p. 15 |
| 2 Being | p. 27 |
| 3 Authenticity | p. 40 |
| 4 Becoming | p. 52 |
| Part 2 Being a student | p. 65 |
| 5 Travel broadens the mind | p. 67 |
| 6 A will to offer | p. 78 |
| 7 Voice | p. 89 |
| 8 Dispositions and qualities | p. 101 |
| Part 3 Being a teacher | p. 113 |
| 9 The inspiring teacher | p. 115 |
| 10 A pedagogy for uncertain times | p. 126 |
| 11 Space and risk | p. 139 |
| 12 A critical spirit | p. 151 |
| Coda: puzzles and possibilities | p. 163 |
| Notes | p. 171 |
| Bibliography | p. 181 |
| Subject Index | p. 191 |
| Name Index | p. 197 |
