TY  - JOUR
TT  - The Idea of the University in the Twenty-First Century:  Where's the Imagination?*
AU  - Barnett, Ronald
PY  - 2011
DA  - December
JF  - Yükseköğretim Dergisi
JO  - TÜBA-HER
PB  - Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2146-796X
SP  - 88
EP  - 94
VL  - 1
IS  - 2
KW  - Ekoloji
KW  - hayal gücü
KW  - ideoloji
KW  - üniversite
KW  - ütopya
KW  - vizyon
N2  - The  concept of the university in the twenty-first century is hopelessly  impoverished. It is "impoverished" in the limited range of ideas that have come  to be associated with the university. Characteristically, the ideas currently  in circulation confine themselves to extending and endorsing contemporary  emerging forms of the university. It is also "hopelessly impoverished" in that  the idea of the university is largely now without hope. Where it seriously  engages with contemporary institutional forms assumed by universities, thinking  and debate about the university can sometimes adopt critical tones but takes on  a shrugging-of-the-shoulders attitude, a sense that there is no alternative.  Ideas about the university have closed in, therefore. This closure is largely  self-imposed. A necessary condition of an opening of ideas of the university is  a recovery of the imagination. Through the creative use of the imagination,  feasible utopias can be gleaned. However, such utopias, even if feasible, are  not in themselves a sufficient condition of the formation of credible ideas.  Such legitimation can be derived from subjecting creative ideas of the  university to criteria of adequacy: five criteria of adequacy are identified,  which can be seen to act as discriminators, sorting efficacious ideas of the  university from non-efficacious ideas. One idea, that of the ecological  university, is tested against the five criteria and can be seen in turn to gain  intellectual and practical warrant. It is further argued that the five criteria  of adequacy will not unduly eliminate creative ideas but rather can act to help  in the generation of additional ideas of the university.
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