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55
Citations
22532
World Ranking
1962
National Ranking
349

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Ronald Barnett is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research is situated primarily within the social sciences, with a focus on education, sociology and political science, political science and international relations, information systems, and philosophy.

Their work covers topics including:

  • Digital Education and Society
  • Higher Education Practices and Engagement
  • Higher Education Governance and Development
  • Global Educational Policies and Reforms
  • Critical Theory and Philosophy
  • Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
  • Critical Theory and Political Philosophy

Recent published papers by Barnett include:

  • "The activist university: Identities, profiles, conditions", 2021, Policy Futures in Education

Other significant papers in the academic network associated with Barnett, where they are a co-author or frequent collaborator, include:

  • "Reimagining the new pedagogical possibilities for universities post-Covid-19", 2020, Educational Philosophy and Theory
  • "Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment: Postdigital Relationships between Science, Philosophy, and Religion", 2020, Postdigital Science and Education
  • "Raising Regional Academic Voices (Alongside Data) in Higher Education (HE) Debate", 2020, Postdigital Science and Education
  • "Public intellectuals in the age of viral modernity: An EPAT collective writing project", 2021, Educational Philosophy and Theory

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Barnett include:

  • Michael A. Peters
  • Søren Smedegaard Ernst Bengtsen
  • Peter McLaren
  • Gert Biesta
  • Petar Jandrić

Barnett has published in various academic venues, with repeated contributions particularly to:

  • Educational Philosophy and Theory
  • Postdigital Science and Education
  • Journal of Praxis in Higher Education
  • Higher Education Policy
  • Policy Futures in Education

In addition to journal articles, Barnett has published several books with reputable academic publishers:

  • Realizing the Ecological University, Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2024
  • Philosophers on the University, Springer Nature, 2020
  • Culture and the University, Bloomsbury Academic eBooks, 2022
  • On Learning, Volume 2, UCL Press, 2023

Ronald Barnett holds a fellowship as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Higher Education: A Critical Business

    Ronald Barnett

  • The Limits of Competence: Knowledge, Higher Education and Society

    Ronald Barnett

  • The idea of higher education

    Ronald Barnett

  • Los límites de la competencia: el conocimiento, la educación superior y la sociedad

    Ronald Barnett

  • Improving Higher Education: Total Quality Care

    Ronald Barnett

  • Learning for an unknown future

    Ronald Barnett

  • Realizing the University in an Age of Supercomplexity

    Ronald Barnett

  • Engaging the Curriculum in Higher Education

    Ronald Barnett

  • University Knowledge in an Age of Supercomplexity.

    Ronald Barnett

  • Beyond All Reason: Living with Ideology in the University

    Ronald Barnett

  • Being a University

    Ronald Barnett

  • Supercomplexity and the Curriculum

    Ronald Barnett

  • Knowing and becoming in the higher education curriculum

    Ronald Barnett

  • Reshaping the University: New Relationships between Research, Scholarship and Teaching

    Ronald Barnett

  • Conceptualising Curriculum Change

    Ronald Barnett;Gareth Parry;Kelly Coate

  • Imagining the University

    Ronald Barnett

  • A Will To Learn: Being A Student In An Age Of Uncertainty

    Ronald Barnett

  • Relationships Between Teaching and Research in Higher Education in England

    Kelly Coate;Ronald Barnett;Gareth Williams

  • Reimagining the new pedagogical possibilities for universities post-Covid-19: An EPAT Collective Project

    Michael A. Peters;Fazal Rizvi;Gary Mcculloch;Paul Gibbs

  • Learning to work and working to learn

    Ronald Barnett

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Thinking in Higher Education

    W. Martin Davies;Ronald Barnett

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters University of Waikato
Peter McLaren
Peter McLaren Chapman University
Martin Davies
Martin Davies Tulane University
Gert Biesta
Gert Biesta National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Nicholas C. Burbules
Nicholas C. Burbules University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bill Cope
Bill Cope University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Susan L. Robertson
Susan L. Robertson University of Cambridge
Fazal Rizvi
Fazal Rizvi University of Melbourne
Mary Kalantzis
Mary Kalantzis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michael W. Apple
Michael W. Apple University of Wisconsin–Madison

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