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What Could a University Be?: Revolutionary Ideas for the Future

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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert GibbsPublish date:10/6/2025Pages:272
Languages:EnglishPublisher:On CampusISBN-13:9780774839174ISBN-10:774839171UPC:9780774839174Book Category:Education, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Schools, SocialBook Topic:LevelsSize:8.98 x 5.98 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SCGNY0YSCJ
Reimagines how research can be embraced at all levels and parts of a university.

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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:On CampusISBN-13:9780774839174ISBN-10:774839171UPC:9780774839174Book Category:Education, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Schools, SocialBook Topic:LevelsSize:8.98 x 5.98 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SCGNY0YSCJ
Robert Gibbs is professor of philosophy and religion and was the inaugural director of the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. His publications include Correlations in Rosenzweig and Levinas and Why Ethics? Signs of Responsibilities.
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