The Philosophy of Higher Education: Forks, Branches and Openings

The main title of this book is ‘The University Becoming’. It is an intriguing title. ‘Becoming’ is a philosophical concept, and the university has been an object of philosophical study for over two hundred years, but the idea of ‘the university becoming’ has only recently emerged in the literature. That idea and its inquiry began to take off in a serious fashion in the 1980s and 1990s as part of the recent emergence of the philosophy of higher education as a field of study, and that field is now flourishing. The field has split into two main trunks, as it were, concerning separately the ideas of ‘university’ and ‘higher education’, with a number of branches opening out.