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Columns

The Public University as a Real Utopia

Towards a Renewal of Higher Education

Martin Aidnik

Covid-19 and the Universities And what about the historically public universities, the concern of this brief book? First and foremost, the pandemic brought to the fore universities as hubs of science and research. After all, it was to science that the world turned for explanations to what was transpiring. In many ways, scientists rose to […]

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Aidnik, M. (2024). The Public University as a Real Utopia: Towards a Renewal of Higher Education. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/columns/the-public-university-as-a-real-utopia/

Martin Aidnik

Martin Aidnik currently works as a researcher at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK. His scholarly interests are the sociology and philosophy of higher education and European studies. He is a member of the PaTHES Philosophy of Higher Education Society. His first book, titled The Public University as a Real Utopia (Palgrave), has just been published.

Ideas

Back to the University’s Future: The Second Coming of Humboldt

Steve Fuller

Ljiljana Radenovic

Back to the University’s Future: The Second Coming of Humboldt, by Steve Fuller, Springer Cham, 2023, 171pp., USD43.50 (e-book), ISBN 978-3-031-36327-6 Some years ago, when I was doing my postdoctoral fellowship at the Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative in Toronto, I decided to sit in on the graduate seminar on evolutionary theory taught by […]

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Radenovic, L. (2024). Back to the University’s Future: The Second Coming of Humboldt: Steve Fuller. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/ideas/back-to-the-universitys-future-the-second-coming-of-humboldt/
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Ljiljana Radenovic

Professor Ljiljana Radenović a professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. Her research interests lie at the intersection of history, psychology and religion. https://twitter.com/Ljiljana1972

Ideas

‘The Day Before Yesterday’

The Case of Universities

Kevin Harris

Cathy Legg has presented a most interesting piece in Agora Ideas, namely ‘When the Day Before Yesterday Is Actually Today,’ which traces how a question about gender parity, which still remains a question, had been declared as ‘sorted out’ or more or less concluded, progressively throughout recent history. She notes that, in 1989, Michèle Le […]

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Harris, K. (2020). ‘The Day Before Yesterday’: The Case of Universities. PESA Agora. https://pesaagora.com/ideas/the-day-before-yesterday/
Ideas are Open Access, freely available for readers to download and copy with proper attribution with a CC – BY – ND licence

Kevin Harris

Kevin Harris is Emeritus Professor of Education at Macquarie University. He notes that he is enjoying retirement. He writes:

I have previously romanticised myself sufficiently; those interested can look up Educational Philosophy and Theory, 44(5), 450-463. I am now going on 84 and, with apologies to Shakespeare and Keats, I now ‘suffer the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to’: that is all ye need to know.

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