Why Universities Should Seek Happiness and Contentment

• Tác giả: Paul Gibbs
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1474252072
• Thông tin xuất bản: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (248 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 344688
• Chủ đề: 1. Education; 2. Higher & further education, tertiary education; 3. Philosophy & theory of education

Tóm tắt

The totalising effect of consumerism, well-being and satisfaction is a discourse which may negate the value of struggle and mastery of complex subjects and a realization of personal potentiality. Published open access, Why Universities Should Seek Happiness and Contentment considers the consequences of a hedonistic and well-being centred model of student education as one of the goals of higher education and proposes an alternative goal for higher education. In a globalised consumer society where the anxiety for an identity leads to the fear of not reaching the standard, Paul Gibbs shows how anxiety can be harnessed to secure contentment with one's own future without the fear of consumer-induced emptiness. He conceptualises higher education in a counter-valued way to the current dominant discourse of higher education institutions and educational policy while placing students at the centre of their own educational activity. In doing so, Gibbs proposes contentment as a guiding principle of higher education. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.