Schinkel, Anders. Wonder and Education: On the Educational Importance of Contemplative Wonder. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

Finn Thorbjørn Hansen

doi:10.3726/PTIHE022021.0005

Schinkel, Anders. Wonder and Education: On the Educational Importance of Contemplative Wonder. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

Finn Thorbjørn Hansen

Department of Communication and Psychology

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In 2011, the British philosopher and Professor of Higher Education Research, Ronald Barnett wrote: “Universities are no longer permitted to be places of mystery, of uncertainty, of the unknown. The mystery of universities has ended.”1 This was said in times where the neoliberal agenda was at its zenith and marketisation and consumerization, performativity and commodification had great impact on universities. What Barnett called for was a recovery of the sense of wonder in the encounter and presence of mystery. What indeed is language? What on earth is a human being? What is fundamentally love? Friendship? Human consciousness? Human reality? Truth? etc., etc.

Original language	English
Journal	Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education
Volume	3
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	69-77
Number of pages	9
ISSN	2578-5753
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3726/PTIHE022021.0005
Publication status	Published - Jul 2021

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