What Could a University Be?
What Could a University Be?
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What Could a University Be? by Robert B Gibbs
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. His future university embraces different perspectives on what knowledge is and draws its research questions from the society around it. What Could a University Be? will change how readers understand teaching, research, the kinds of thinking in which students should engage, and the role of the university in solving the many challenges of our time.Robert Gibbs is a professor of philosophy and religion and was the inaugural director of the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. He has been a member of the international advisory board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, the Humanities Initiative Steering Committee for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. His numerous publications include Correlations in Rosenzweig and Levinas and Why Ethics? Signs of Responsibilities. He has lectured widely on higher education, including presenting the J.V. Clyne Lectures at Green College at the University of British Columbia. He lives in Toronto.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780774839174 |
| ISBN 10 | 0774839171 |
| Title | What Could a University Be? |
| Author | Robert B Gibbs |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of British Columbia Press |
| Year published | 2025-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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