Engaging Newman on the Contemporary University - Jaroslav Pelikan: The Idea of the University: A Reexamination. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. Pp. x, 238. $30.00.)

Guest Editorial: Histories of accounting in educational institutions

“…While there might be an economic basis underpinning such choices, this intrinsic notion also recognises more subjective motivations, which are not necessarily affected by economic circumstances. This intrinsic notion informed the first universities established in Europe, such as the University of Bologna, where the term ‘academic freedom’ was introduced as the kernel of this culture (Newman, 1996).…”

Dismantling the master’s house: new ways of knowing for equity and social justice in health professions education

“…We argue that the planting and proliferation of HPE as founded on the pillars of sexism, racism, patriarchy, authority, buffeted by capitalism, and grounded in the dominance of the zero-point epistemology of white ‘men from five countries’ is evident in history. In 1852, Newman and Turner ( 1996 ) positions the university as a place for the cultivation and contemplation of the truth for the formation of gentlemen . Writing in the early 1900s, Flexner positions the ideal medical program as one devoted to the pursuit of knowledge and facts (Flexner 1968 , 1972 ) and a profession as “an order, a caste [with] a code of honour” (1968, p. 30).…”

The politics of student engagement

“…Education, on the other hand, he saw as more than simply learning skills, as less utilitarian and more enriching: [Education] implies an action upon our mental nature, and the formation of a character; it is something individual and permanent … When then we speak of the communication of Knowledge as being Education, we thereby really imply that that Knowledge is a state or condition of mind; and since cultivation of mind is surely worth seeking for its own sake, we are thus brought once more to the conclusion … that there is a Knowledge, which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure. (Newman, 1996: 85)…”