Week 1: Introductions: The ‘tradition’
Reading:
Haskins, C. (1957) The Rise of Universities, Cornell University Press
Jaeger, W. (1986) Paideia, Vol I, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Jaeger, W. (1986) Paideia, Vol II, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Plato (1997) Republic, London: Everyman
Wider Reading:
Cooper, J. M (Ed.) (1997) Plato, Complete Works Cambridge: Hackett
Hogan, P. (1995) The Custody and Courtship of Experience, Dublin: the Columba Press
Nussbaum, M. (1997) Cultivating Humanity, Cambridge, Mass.: London: Harvard University Press
Oakeshott, M. (2001) The Voice of Liberal Learning, Indianapolis: Liberty fund, Inc.
Week 2: Responses to the ‘Tradition’: 1
Reading:
MacMurray, J. (Unpublished) Education in the Universities,
Rorty, R. (1993) Contingency Irony and Solidarity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Usher, R. and Edwards, R. (1994) Postmodernism and Education London: Routledge
Wider Reading:
Blake, N., Smeyers, P., Smith, R. and Standish, P. (2002) The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Education, London: Blackwell
Bloom, A. (1987) The Closing of the American Mind, New York: Simon and Shuster
Nussbaum, M. (1997) Cultivating Humanity, Cambridge, Mass.: London: Harvard University Press
Rorty, R. (1991) Objectivity, Relativism and Truth, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Rorty, R. (1993) Contingency, Irony and Solidarity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Rorty, R. (1998) Truth and Progress, Philosophical Papers (Vol.3), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Rorty, R. (1999) Philosophy and Social Hope, London: Penguin
Week 3: Responses to the ‘Tradition’: 2
Reading:
Dhillon, P. and Standish, P. (2000) Just Education, London: Routledge
Lyotard, J-F. (1979) The Postmodern Condition, Manchester: Manchester University Press
Lyotard, J-F. (1992) The Postmodern Explained to Children, London: Turnaround
Rorty, R. (1990) The Dangers of Over-Philosophication – Reply to Arcilla and Nicholson, Educational Theory, Winter 1990, Vol. 40, No.1
Wider Reading:
Browning, G. (2000) Lyotard and the End of Grand Narratives, Cardiff: University of Wales Press
Cowen, R. (1996) Performativity, Post-modernity and the University Comparative Education, Volume 32 No. 2 1996 pp245-258
Dhillon, P. and Standish, P. (2000) Just Education, London: Routledge Fischman,
G., McLaren, P., Sunker, H. and Lankshear, C. (2005) Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies and Global Conflicts, Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield
Lyotard, J-F. (1984) The Postmodern Condition, Manchester: Manchester University Press
Lyotard, J-F. (1992) The Postmodern Condition Explained to Children, London: Turnaround
Rorty, R. (1991) Objectivity, Relativism and Truth, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Rorty, R. (1993) Contingency, Irony and Solidarity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Rorty, R. (1998) Truth and Progress, Philosophical Papers (Vol.3), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Rorty, R. (1999) Philosophy and Social Hope, London: Penguin
Week 4: The ‘Excellence’ of Higher Education
Reading:
Giroux, H. (Ed) (2001) Beyond the Corporate University, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield
Lewis, (2006) Excellence without a soul, New York: Public Affairs
Readings, B. (1999) The University in Ruins, London: Harvard University Press
Wider Reading:
Blake, N., Smeyers, P., Smith, R. and Standish, P. (2000) Education in an age of Nililism, London: Routledge
Giroux, H. A. and Myrsiades, K. (eds) (2001) Beyond the Corporate University, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield
Oakeshott, M. (1989) The Voice of Liberal Learning, Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc.
Spanos, W. (1993) The End of Education Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
Week 5: The University: undermined and ‘re-enlightened’
Reading:
Barnett, R. (1990) The Idea of Higher Education, Buckingham: Open University press
Barnett, R. (2000) Realizing the University in the Age of Supercomplexity, Buckingham: Open University Press
Oakeshott, M. (1989) The Voice of Liberal Learning, Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc.
Wider Reading:
Aviram, A. (1992) The Nature of University Education Reconsidered (a response to Ronald Barnett’s The Idea of Higher Education) Journal of Philosophy of Education, Vol. 26. No. 2, 1993
Barnett, R. (1988) ‘Does Higher Education have Aims?’ Journal of Philosophy of Education, vol 22, No. 2, 1988
Barnett, R. (1997) Higher Education: A Critical Business, Buckingham: Open University Press
Barnett, R. (1999) ‘The Coming of the Global Village: a tale of two inquiries’ Oxford Review of Education Vol. 25 (3) pp. 302-305
Barnett, R. (2000) Realizing the University in the Age of Supercomplexity, Buckingham: Open University Press
Blake, N., Smeyers, P., Smith, R. and Standish, P. (2002) The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Education, London: Blackwell
Blake, N., Smith, R. and Standish, P. (1998) The Universities we Need, London: Kogan Page
Week 6: Higher Education and Wisdom
Reading:
Aristotle (1931) Ethica Nichomachea London: Oxford University Press
Jaspers, K. (2003) Way to Wisdom, Yale: Yale University Press
Jaspers, K. (1960) The Idea of a University, Peter Owen
Wider Reading:
Burnett, J. (Ed) (1967) Aristotle on Education London: Cambridge University Press
Davidson, T. (1892) Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals, London: Heinemann
Dunne, J. (1993) Back to the Rough Ground, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press (Chapter 8)
Jaeger, W. (1971) Paideia, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Jaeger, W. (1962) Aristotle, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Week 7: Higher Education and Humanism
Reading:
Kraye, J. (1996) The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Kristeller, P. O. (1961) Renaissance Thought: The Classic, Scholastic, and Humanist Strains, New York: Harper Torchbooks.
Kristeller, P. O. (1965) Renaissance Thought: 2, papers on humanism and the arts, New York: Harper Row
Machiavelli, N. (1965) Chief Works and Others, Durham, N. C. : Duke University Press
Machiavelli, N. (1975) The Discourses of Niccolo Machiavelli, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
Wider Reading:
Brown, A. (1999) The Renaissance, Harlow: Pearson Education Ltd.
Burke, P. (1999) The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Burckhardt, J. (1944) The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Oxford: The Phaidon Press.
Cassirer, E., Kristeller, P. O. & Randall, J. H. (eds.) (1948) The Renaissance Philosophy of Man, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Grendler, P. F. (2002) The Universities of the Italian Renaissance, Baltimore; London: John Hopkins University Press
Hainsworth, P. (2010) The Essential Petrarch, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company.
Nauert, C. (2006) Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Robinson, J. H. (1970) Petrarch; The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters, New York: Haskell House Publishers Ltd.
Week 8: Higher Education and Reason
Reading:
Diderot, D. (1992) Political Writings, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Kant, I (1979) The Conflict of the Faculties, London: University of Nebraska
Kant, I. (1997) The Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals and what is Enlightenment, Upper Saddle River: Prentice-Hall
Wider Reading:
Adorno, T. and Horkheimer, M. (1997) Dialectic of Enlightenment, London: Verso
Appelbaum, D. (1995) The Vision of Kant, Brisbane: Element Books
Caygill, H. (2000) A Kant Dictionary, London: BlackwellDerrida, J. (2004) Eyes of the University: Right to Philosophy 2, California: Stanford University Press
Foucault, M. (1984) What is Enlightenment (in Rainbow, P. (ed) (1984) The Foucault Reader, New York: Pantheon Books)
Kant, I. (1987) Critique of Judgment, Indianapolis: Hackett
Kant, I. (1997) The Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals and what is Enlightenment, Upper Saddle River: Prentice-Hall
Week 9: Bildung
Reading:
Fichte, J. (1987) The Vocation of Man, Indianapolis: Hackett
Fichte, J. (1988) The Purpose of Higher Education, Maryland: Nightsun
Humboldt, W. von, ‘On the Spirit and Organisational framework of Intellectual Institutions in Berlin’, Minerva; vol 8, 1970 pp242-250 (trans. E. Schills)
Westbury, I., Hopmann, S. and Riquarts, K. (Eds) Teaching as a Reflective Practice, London: Erlbaum
Wider Reading:
Fichte, J. (1987) The Vocation of Man, Indianapolis: Hackett
Fichte, J. (1988) The Purpose of Higher Education, Maryland: Nightsun
Humboldt, W. von, (1969) The Limits of State Action, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Lovlie, L., Mortensen, K., and Nordembo, S. (Eds) (2002) Educating Humanity, Bildung in Postmodernity, London: Blackwell
Luth, C. (1998) On Wilhelm von Humbolt’s Theory of Bildung, J. Curriculum Studies 1998, Vol 30, No. 1, 43-59
Oakeshott, M. (1989) The Voice of Liberal Learning, Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc.
Rose, G. (1997) Mourning Becomes the Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Thompson, C. (2005) The Non-transparency of the Self and the Ethical Value of Bildung, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Vol. 39, No. 3, 2005
Thompson, C. (2006) Adorno and the Borders of Experience: The Significance of the Nonidentical for a “Different” Theory of BildungEducational Theory Vol 56, Number 1, 2006
Week 10: Liberal Education
Reading:
Newman, J. H. (1996) The Idea of a University, London: Yale University Press
Newman, J. H. (1970) University Sermons London: S.P.C.K.
Newman, J. H. (1906) Grammar of Assent, London, New York and Bombay: Longman’s Green and Co.
Wider Reading:
Aquino, F. D. (2004) Communities of Informed Judgement, Newman’s Illative Sense and Accounts of Rationality, Washington: The Catholic University of America Press
Athie, R. (2003) Newman: A proposal for lifelong education Christian Higher Education 2:285-301, 203
Arcilla, R. (1995) For the Love of Perfection: Richard Rorty and Liberal Education, London: Routledge
Dunne, J. (1993) Back to the Rough Ground, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press
Graham, G. (2002) Universities, The Recovery of an Idea, Throverton: Imprint
Newman, J. H. (1970) University Sermons London: S.P.C.K.
Newman, J. H. (1906) Grammar of Assent, London, New York and Bombay: Longman’s Green and Co.
Newman, J. H. (1979) The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Nussbaum, M. (1997) Cultivating Humanity, Cambridge, Mass.: London: Harvard University Press
Oakeshott, M. (2001) The Voice of Liberal Learning, Indianapolis: Liberty fund, Inc.
Pelikan, J. (1992) The Idea of a University, a re-examination, London: Yale University Press
Week 11: Higher Education, Being and Spirit
Reading:
Heidegger, M. (1933) The Self-Assertion of the German University, in Wolin, R. (1993) The Heidegger Controversy, London: MIT Press
Heidegger, M. (1998) Pathmarks, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Heidegger, M. (1977) The Question Concerning technology, London: Harper and Row
Wider Reading:
Heidegger, M. (1993) Basic Writings, London: Routledge (Ed. Krell, D.)
Heidegger, M. (1990) Being and Time, Oxford: Blackwell
Peters, M. A. (2002) Heidegger, Education and Modernity, Lanham, Md. Rowman and Littlefield
Rorty, R. (1991) Essays on Heidegger and Others, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Week 12: Conclusions