Culture and the University

Ronald Barnett is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. He is the President and a co-founder of the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society. Søren S.E. Bengtsen is Associate Professor at the Danish School of Education and Deputy Director of the Centre for Higher Education Futures, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the Chair and a co-founder of the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society. Rikke Toft Nørgård is Associate Professor at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark, and Board Member of the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society.

Introduction
1. Whatever Happened to the University for Culture?
Part I: Warring cultures and a universal culture - (Ronald Barnett, University College London, UK)
2. The Cultural Crisis of the University
3. Culture Wars: Multiplication and (possible) Re-unification
4. A Common Culture - No and Maybe
5. For the University and the World: a Culture of the Earth
Part II: Designing for cultural places - (Rikke Toft Nørgård, Aarhus University, Denmark)
6. Placeful Cultures and Cultural Places
7. The Atmospheric University and Cultural Atmospheres
8. Cultures for Collective Visioning and Future-Making
9. Future-Scaping Alternative Universities
Part III: Within and beyond culture - (Søren Bengtsen, Aarhus University, Denmark)
10. Higher Education as Cultural Formation
11. Cultural Leadership
12. The Indivisible
13. Beyond Culture
Part IV: Dialogical Imaginings
14. University Culture as Force, Coexistence, Endeavour and Entanglement Rikke Nørgård
15. A University of One’s Own Søren Bengtsen
16. An Ecological Culture for a Non-Comprehending World Ronald Barnett
Endnote: Uniting the University and Even the Earth: the Twin Cultures
Bibliography
Index