A recording of the inaugural seminar in the Ontological Reflections on the Contemporary University seminar series given by Professor Ronald Barnett (19 January 2023) is available online on the PaTHES (Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society) website. Here is the abstract: To speak of ontology in the context of the university is to posit […]
The Editors of Educational Philosophy and Theory and Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education (Michael Peters and John Petrovic, respectively) along with the Chair of the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society (PaTHES, Søren Bengtsen) and the Vice-President of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA, Sonja Arndt) invite you to contribute a […]
The ecological university, entangled with eight ecosystems (Barnett, 2022, p. 240) The emergence of a field It is time, it is the time, for the philosophy of higher education to announce its presence. As far back as the 1970s, there were one or two despatch riders heralding the phrase ‘the philosophy of higher education’ (Brubacher, […]
This season of the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society (PaTHES) webinars explores slow academia. Typically defined in the negative – something other than frenetic, competitive, metricised, anxiety-promoting academia – its advocates are most visible in academic self-help such as Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber’s (2016) The slow professor, and its critics on social media […]