Being universitas: community and being present in times of pandemic

IF 0.7 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Ethics and Education Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI:10.1080/17449642.2023.2188718
Amanda Fulford, David Locke
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ABSTRACT This paper considers what is at stake in the idea of universitas – a community of masters and scholars – in the context of the shifting landscape of higher education engendered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel, we consider what it means to be together in a university community. We draw a distinction between the idea of ‘functioning’ as universitas and ‘being’ universitas, arguing that, that while universities have continued to function effectively through the pandemic, something of what it means to be universitas has been lost. We explore, through Marcel’s concepts of disponibilité and indisponibilité (availability and unavailability), presence and communion, what is at stake in our being with others, and participating in their plenitude. We conclude that being bodily present to each other opens up possibilities for realising something of what it means to be universitas as a community of masters, scholars and students.
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成为大学:在疫情期间的社区和存在
摘要在新冠肺炎疫情导致高等教育格局发生变化的背景下,本文探讨了由硕士和学者组成的大学理念的利害关系。借鉴加布里埃尔·马塞尔的哲学,我们思考在大学社区里在一起意味着什么。我们区分了“作为大学发挥作用”和“成为”大学的概念,认为尽管大学在疫情期间继续有效发挥作用,但作为大学的意义已经丧失。我们通过马塞尔关于可支配性和不可支配性(可用性和不可用性)、存在和交流的概念,探索我们与他人相处以及充分参与他人生活的利害关系。我们得出的结论是,身体相互存在为实现大学作为一个由大师、学者和学生组成的社区意味着什么开辟了可能性。
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