No Place to Learn

Why Universities Aren't Working

By Thomas C Pocklington & Allan Tupper
Categories: Education, Higher Education
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774808781, 224 pages, May 2002
Paperback : 9780774808798, 224 pages, May 2002
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774841078, 224 pages, November 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774850193, 224 pages, October 2007

Table of contents

1 No Place to Learn

2 The Canadian University: From College to Knowledge Factory

3 Universities in Action: A Day in the Life

4 University Teaching

5 Research and Reflective Inquiry: Competing Principles

6 Teaching and Research at Canadian Universities: The Myth of Mutual Enrichment

7 Ethics in Canadian Universities

8 Universities in Business: Issues and Prospects

9 Pseudo-Problems and Pseudo-Solutions

10 Real Problems, Real Solutions

Notes

Bibliography

Index

If you’ve never known what deans do, what tenure is, and what professors do when they’re not teaching, No Place to Learn is a must-read: an eye-opening introduction that raises serious questions about the state of higher education in Canada.

Description

The Red Cross is studied and criticized. The Royal Family is studied and criticized. Churches and hospitals are studied and criticized. Canadian universities are seldom studied and criticized and are worse off for this neglect. This book seeks to repair this damage by casting a critical eye on how Canadian universities work – or fail to work.