Thinking University Expanded

<p><em>The Thinking University Expanded</em> considers how the university can be extended and developed to an institution of play that becomes a gateway to new compositions and enactments of opportunities and happiness for university academics and students alike. A university of and in continuous play can shape the public sphere in ways that reimagine both the epistemological and political and the metaphysical and the ethical.</p><p>Without abandoning the university’s emphasis on thinking the book examines the prospects of opening the university to ‘a new possible use’. The singular outcomes-based lens of seeing higher education distorts the humane and ethical nuance of what a university can potentially do and aspire towards. For this reason the book intends to find a new use for the idea of a university – one that is responsible and responsive in both its pursuit of the truth and being open to different kinds of truth as made manifest in diverse contexts and life-worlds.</p><p>This book will be of great interest for academics researchers and postgraduate students in the field of higher education.</p>