What Is a University?

What is a University?

Acknowledgements i
Table of Figures ii

INTRODUCTION
Letter to Staff iii
Letter to the Student iv

PART ONE: STUDY STYLE
1. The Acquisition of Freedom 1
2. Staffs and Students 2
3. Dimensions of Study 3
4. Optimism or Pessimism? 5

PART TWO: STUDY MANAGEMENT
5. Learning: the student's paradigm 6
6. Learning and Language 8

PART THREE: STUDY PATTERNS
7. The World of Learning 14
8. Structure: divisions questioned 17
9. Process: where to start? 27
10.Objectives:the struggle for ‘knowledge’ 30

PART FOUR: STUDY OUTPUTS
11. Spoken Word:levels of exposition 50
12. Written Word: acts of creation 56
(a) Life and Death: a newspaper report 56
(b) The Sun Says: undergraduate essay 58
(c) The Novel: a postgraduate essay 59
(d) Language groups: a Ph.D.proposal 61
(e) Double Helix: successful research 62
(f) Whither Psychology? A discipline judged 64
(g) Metaphor: meaning and public life 66

Index 67