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"The Challenge of the University: the Time and University in the Transformation"

[English] Ed Burns Charles Clark

Wu Hantian once made the piano translation

East China Normal University Press published in July 2022

Universities can play a more important role and make this complex and changeable world better. From the response to climate change to the use of artificial intelligence technology, all this will help the economy and society to adapt and cope with the huge challenges we are facing. This is their mission and their challenge. If the university is committed to achieving this higher goal, they must carry out self -innovation. The author of this book Ed Byrne and Charles Clarke showed us how the university will change the world in the change.

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Wu Hantian

In the evolution of human civilization, universities are always an extremely strange and charming existence: it is not a government agency, but it is given a very diverse social role, and it is even regarded as the engine of the country's rise; it is often in it The forefront of the change has gained countless important innovations in its long history. However, the traditional obsession made it look incompatible with the times at some time; it began in the medieval Europe, but accompanied by modernization and globalization The wave of waves of civilizations in the world derives the appearance of a variety of attitudes, so that it is difficult to make the next definition of universal characteristics. The university, countless people are in it, underneath education or research on high -profile studies; more people are deeply affected by it, or the local communities that are booming due to their existence, or from the beginning to the university from the beginning of the university The new ideas were enlightened. All in all, the university seems to be our "most familiar stranger", sometimes it looks like an independent ivory tower, and sometimes it looks like a neighbor full of warmth. He once gave us guidance at the crossroads of life. This may be the source of the "reputation" of life for universities -ancient, modern, Chinese and foreign.

For the eternal nature of the university, I often make a hypothesis: if human society has not experienced various changes since this century (especially the huge changes in the past 10 years), the university may still exist completely with its original appearance. ——In college students may still be able to learn, think about the same ways of the same way, and spend their campus career in the same way in the same way in the 12th century. For scholars in university Compared with the gorgeous hand -to -hand manuscripts, their work and lifestyle may not require much substantial changes in several centuries. However, human civilization does not get rid of the fate of continuously cutting the thorns because of the innovation of science and technology, and strives to expand human beings with a cognitive boundary. The other side is actually the starting point of another similar journey. The times did not give humans to self -proclaimed and complacent capital, and they also did not give the university the opportunity to follow the old and disabled. Faced with the world of rapid changes, whether universities can continue to win the trust of the surroundings like the ten centuries, it depends on how it fulfills the traditional functions, while it is poverty, climate and environment, energy, and political conflicts and political conflicts and political conflicts and political conflicts worldwide. Solution provides solutions such as ethnic conflict. It can be imagined that this scheme may be a new idea, new theory that can change people's ideas to a certain extent, or a new element that can change people's ideas to a certain extent, or in the process of talent training, Directly play a positive role at a longer period of time. It is not difficult to see that the above -mentioned paths are not exceptions with the most traditional and essential functions of the university (that is, educating people and scientific research), but it is necessary to make the inherent forms of traditional functions deep or even disruptive. In today's changing world, the changes of universities are imminent and full of risks -it is bound to play the Prometheus of our time in the thorny journey. Filled light.

In response to the challenge of universities in the era of change, many scholars engaged in higher education research tried to give their answers. To this day, research on universities around the world has become a special knowledge. However, as a professional researcher in international and relatively higher education, the author dare not say that he can give a comprehensive and ideal answer to the above questions, nor does it think that any "high -ranking high man" can take his own power as an urgent need to change. The university pointers are fascinated. On the one hand, it is obviously because of the unprecedented complexity of the above problems, which will inevitably depend on all relevant parties in the university's community to contribute wisdom. On the other hand, this is the law of development in the field of discipline or research -once the original loose academic community forms a close guild, the professionals in it can't help but look at the Shu Shu, trying to build firmly through the construction of abstract terminology to build firmly. Disciplinary boundary. In the limited "territory" within the border, the "internal curiosity" of refined division of labor and the "internal currency" of the process of knowledge production is unavoidable, so that the observation and evaluation of the research objects cannot avoid "seeing trees, no forests". It is true that the subtle analysis of the details of the "trees" has its own significance, but when the unprecedented changes are welcomed by universities and even the entire human beings, you may wish to listen to what unique insights of those who overlook the "forest" in the years.

The two authors of this book, Ed Burns and Charles Clark, are the principals and former British Education Ministers of the University of London, respectively. Berne's job is a neuroscience. He has served as the head of the relevant college at the University of Melbourne and Monash University in Australia. Before becoming the principal of the King of London, he served as the associate academic chief of the University of London and the president of Monash University. Essence In addition, Berne is also the current chairman of the Commonwealth University Association. Clark had served as the chairman of the National Student Federation of the United Kingdom in his early years. As a politician, he has served as the Minister of Education and Skills, the Chairman of the Labor Party, and the Minister of the Interior, and promoted major reforms of British universities during his tenure minister. As the English version of the book says in the English version of Burne, the former is the experience of the former two hemisphere, the teacher, the dean, and the president of the university. Essence Both authors firmly believe that for the changes of the university, "the arrogant devil and Wang Yang's futuristic blue ocean have a dull and unknown line." And thinking to put forward some ideas that can stimulate further discussions, for researchers and practitioners who are for higher education. Translator profile:

Wu Hantian, a researcher, doctoral supervisor, doctoral supervisor, Ph.D. in Education, University of Toronto, Canada.

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Author: Wu Hantian

Edit: Zhou Yiqian

Editor in charge: Zhu Zilong

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