《Alternative Universities》是2019年出版的圖書，作者是David J. Staley。
基本介紹
- 外文名：Alternative Universities
- 作者：David J. Staley
- 出版時間：2019年3月26日
- 出版社：Johns Hopkins University Press
- ISBN：9781421427416
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
How can we re-envision the university? Too many examples of what passes for educational innovation today―MOOCs especially―focus on transactions, on questions of delivery. In Alternative Universities, David J. Staley argues that modern universities suffer from a poverty of imagination about how to reinvent themselves. Anyone seeking innovation in higher education today should concentrate instead, he says, on the kind of transformational experience universities enact. In this exercise in speculative design, Staley proposes ten models of innovation in higher education that expand our ideas of the structure and scope of the university, suggesting possibilities for what its future might look like.
What if the university were designed around a curriculum of seven broad cognitive skills or as a series of global gap year experiences? What if, as a condition of matriculation, students had to major in three disparate subjects? What if the university placed the pursuit of play well above the acquisition and production of knowledge? By asking bold "What if?" questions, Staley assumes that the university is always in a state of becoming and that there is not one "idea of the university" to which all institutions must aspire.
This book specifically addresses those engaged in university strategy―university presidents, faculty, policy experts, legislators, foundations, and entrepreneurs―those involved in what Simon Marginson calls "university making." Pairing a critique tempered to our current moment with an explanation of how change and disruption might contribute to a new "golden age" for higher education, Alternative Universities is an audacious and essential read.
作者簡介
David J. Staley is the director of the Humanities Institute and an associate professor of history at The Ohio State University, where he also teaches in the Department of Design and the Department of Educational Studies. He is the author of Brain, Mind and Internet: A Deep History and Future and History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the Future.
