Why Universities Should Seek Happiness and Contentment
The totalising effect of consumerism, well-being and satisfaction is a discourse which may negate the value of struggle and mastery of complex subjects and a realization of personal potentiality. Published open access, Why Universities Should Seek Happiness and Contentment considers the consequences...
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| description | The totalising effect of consumerism, well-being and satisfaction is a discourse which may negate the value of struggle and mastery of complex subjects and a realization of personal potentiality. Published open access, Why Universities Should Seek Happiness and Contentment considers the consequences of a hedonistic and well-being centred model of student education as one of the goals of higher education and proposes an alternative goal for higher education. In a globalised consumer society where the anxiety for an identity leads to the fear of not reaching the standard, Paul Gibbs shows how anxiety can be harnessed to secure contentment with one’s own future without the fear of consumer-induced emptiness. He conceptualises higher education in a counter-valued way to the current dominant discourse of higher education institutions and educational policy while placing students at the centre of their own educational activity. In doing so, Gibbs proposes contentment as a guiding principle of higher education. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-985842025-07-31T17:44:56Z Why Universities Should Seek Happiness and Contentment Gibbs, Paul Education Educational administration and organization Philosophy and theory of education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher education, tertiary education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNA Philosophy and theory of education The totalising effect of consumerism, well-being and satisfaction is a discourse which may negate the value of struggle and mastery of complex subjects and a realization of personal potentiality. Published open access, Why Universities Should Seek Happiness and Contentment considers the consequences of a hedonistic and well-being centred model of student education as one of the goals of higher education and proposes an alternative goal for higher education. In a globalised consumer society where the anxiety for an identity leads to the fear of not reaching the standard, Paul Gibbs shows how anxiety can be harnessed to secure contentment with one’s own future without the fear of consumer-induced emptiness. He conceptualises higher education in a counter-valued way to the current dominant discourse of higher education institutions and educational policy while placing students at the centre of their own educational activity. In doing so, Gibbs proposes contentment as a guiding principle of higher education. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched. 2023-03-20T09:22:49Z 2023-03-20T09:22:49Z 2023-03-17T15:22:16Z 2017 book ONIX_20230317_9781474252072_60 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61924 9781474252072 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/98584 eng open access image/png image/png image/png image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/61924/2/9781474252065.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/61924/2/9781474252065.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/61924/2/9781474252065.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/61924/1/9781474252072.pdf Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic f75587da-2374-4722-9d42-9fffa7fa3f92 9781474252072 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2023: HSS Backlist Bloomsbury Academic 248 London open access |
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