What could a university be? : revolutionary ideas for the future /
"Students are not clients, job seekers, or consumers. Their purpose is the pursuit of knowledge. So why do universities largely restrict inquiry to professors and graduate students? In What Could a University Be? Robert Gibbs imagines a university focused on engaging students in research at all...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Vancouver] :
On Campus, an imprint of UBC Press,
[2025]
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| Summary: | "Students are not clients, job seekers, or consumers. Their purpose is the pursuit of knowledge. So why do universities largely restrict inquiry to professors and graduate students? In What Could a University Be? Robert Gibbs imagines a university focused on engaging students in research at all levels and across all faculties, including professional schools. Gibbs proposes a widely applicable model that reverses the traditional top-down flow by teaching students how to conduct research and become knowledge creators rather than passive recipients. Instead of replicating themselves through their graduate students, professors multiply knowledge by teaching others how to teach and how to inquire. Gibbs's future university embraces discord and different perspectives on what knowledge is, and he turns the current model inside out by suggesting that universities draw from and exchange with society around them. Gibbs situates the responsibilities of higher education in a world of widely distributed, sometimes distorted, information and rapidly changing technology. What Could a University Be? will change how readers understand teaching, research, the kinds of thinking students should learn, and the role of the university in solving the many challenges of our time."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 177 pages) Issued also in print format. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780774839181 (electronic bk.) 077483918X 9780774839198 0774839198 |