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Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education

Author : Jon Nixon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441170995
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education written by Jon Nixon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education focuses on providing a humanistic perspective on pedagogy by relating it to the interpretive practices of particular public educators: thinkers and writers whose work has had an immeasurable impact on how we understand and interpret the world and how our understandings and interpretations act on that world. Jon Nixon focuses on the work of four public intellectuals each of whom reaches out to a wide public readership and develops our understanding regarding the nature of interpretation in the everyday world: Hannah Arendt's work on 'representative thinking', John Berger's injunction to 'hold everything dear', Edward Said's notion of 'democratic criticism', and Martha Nussbaum's studies in the intelligence of feeling. These thinkers provide valuable perspectives on the nature and purpose of interpretation in everyday life. The implications of these perspectives for the development of a transformative pedagogy - and for the renewal of an educated public - are examined in relation to the current contexts of higher education within a knowledge society.

Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education

Author : Jon Nixon
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441112650
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education written by Jon Nixon and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education focuses on providing a humanistic perspective on pedagogy by relating it to the interpretive practices of particular public educators: thinkers and writers whose work has had an immeasurable impact on how we understand and interpret the world and how our understandings and interpretations act on that world. Jon Nixon focuses on the work of four public intellectuals each of whom reaches out to a wide public readership and develops our understanding regarding the nature of interpretation in the everyday world: Hannah Arendt's work on 'representative thinking', John Berger's injunction to 'hold everything dear', Edward Said's notion of 'democratic criticism', and Martha Nussbaum's studies in the intelligence of feeling. These thinkers provide valuable perspectives on the nature and purpose of interpretation in everyday life. The implications of these perspectives for the development of a transformative pedagogy - and for the renewal of an educated public - are examined in relation to the current contexts of higher education within a knowledge society.

Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Academic Leadership in Higher Education

Author : Feng Su
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474223044
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Academic Leadership in Higher Education written by Feng Su and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores what academic leadership in higher education might mean in the cosmopolitan and increasingly globalised 21st century through individual academics' narrative accounts drawn from a range of international contexts. The book shows that academic leadership is key to an individual's development and that it could mean different things in different settings as academics operate across the levels of professional practice, institutional organisation, sector-wide systems and international networks. This book argues for the importance of cosmopolitan perspectives on academic leadership which are developed from the particularities of local and everyday situated experience. Part I of the book explores key theoretical perspectives; Part II provides first-hand accounts from the contributors of their own development as academic leaders; and Part III discusses some of the implications for those with responsibility for academic development and for all those concerned with developing the qualities necessary for leadership practices.

Consuming Higher Education

Author : Joanna Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441183604
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Consuming Higher Education written by Joanna Williams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflects on the link between constructing students as consumers and the purpose of higher education, and the implications for student identity and learning.

Values and Virtues in Higher Education Research.

Author : Jean McNiff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317423925
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Values and Virtues in Higher Education Research. written by Jean McNiff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Values and Virtues in Higher Education Research centres on practitioners studying and researching their practices in higher education settings, in order to improve those practices for the benefit of others and themselves. Making research public is a key aspect of ensuring the quality of educational research and educational practices: Values and Virtues in Higher Education Research raises questions and develops conversations about why higher education practitioners should study and improve their work, how this may be done, and what might be some of the benefits of doing so. What we do as practitioners is influenced by and linked with what we value, what we believe is good. Improving practices therefore involves becoming aware of and interrogating the values that enter into and inform those practices; a study of practices becomes a study of the relationships between the practices in question and their values base. From an international group of contributors in this growing field, this book provides strong theoretical resources and case study material that shows how this transformation may be achieved, including topics such as: Theorising practices to show personal and organisational accountability Developing inter-professional and inter-disciplinary dialogues for social transformation Establishing communities of inquiry in higher education and other workplace settings Reconceptualising professional education as research-informed practice Locating educational theory in the real world for human and environmental wellbeing Showing the evolution of theory through critical engagement, this text will be a valuable companion for lecturers, students and professional developers in higher education. This book will form core reading for those who are interested in engaging in practice-based research, and as additional reading for those whose aim is to broaden their thinking in relation to the role of values and virtues in educational research. Jean McNiff is an independent researcher and writer, Professor of Educational Research at York St John University, and Visiting Professor at Oslo and Akershus University College, Beijing Normal University and Ningxia Teachers University. She is also the author of key texts Action Research: Principles and Practice, You and Your Action Research Project and Writing Up Your Action Research Project.

Global University Rankings

Author : T. Erkkilä
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137296879
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Global University Rankings written by T. Erkkilä and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global University Rankings explores the novel topic of global university rankings and their effects on higher education in Europe. The contributions in this volume outline different discourses on global university rankings and explore the related changes concerning European higher education policies, disciplinary traditions and higher education institutions. The first global university rankings were published less than a decade ago, but these policy instruments have become highly influential in shaping the approaches and institutional realities of higher education. The rankings have portrayed European academic institutions in a varying light. There is intense reflexivity over the figures, leading to ideational changes and institutional adaptation that take surprisingly similar forms in different European countries. The contributions in this book critically assess global university rankings as a policy discourse that would seem to be instrumental to higher education reform throughout Europe.

Authenticity in and through Teaching in Higher Education

Author : Carolin Kreber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113509893X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Authenticity in and through Teaching in Higher Education written by Carolin Kreber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be authentic? Why should it matter whether or not we become more authentic? How might authenticity inform and enhance the social practice of the scholarship of university teaching and, by implication, the learning and development of students? Authenticity in and through Teaching introduces three distinct perspectives on authenticity, the existential, the critical and the communitarian, and shows what moving towards greater authenticity involves for teachers and students when viewed from each of these angles. In developing the notion of ‘the scholarship of teaching as an authentic practice', this book draws on several complementary ideas from social philosophy to explore the nature of this practice and the conditions under which it might qualify as 'authentic'. Other concepts guiding the analysis include ‘virtue’, 'being', ‘communicative action’, 'power', ‘critical reflection’ and ‘transformation’. Authenticity in and through Teaching also introduces a vision of the scholarship of teaching whose ultimate aim it is to serve the important interests of students. These important interests, it is argued, are the students’ own striving and development towards greater authenticity. Both teachers and students are thus implicated in a process of transformative learning, including objective and subjective reframing, redefinition and reconstruction, through critical reflection and critical self-reflection on assumptions. It is argued that, in important ways, this transformative process is intimately bound up with becoming more authentic. Rather than being concerned principally with rendering research evidence of ‘what works’, the scholarship of teaching emerges as a social practice that is equally concerned with the questions surrounding the value, desirability and emancipatory potential of what we do in teaching. The scholarship of teaching, therefore, also engages with the bigger questions of social justice and equality in and through higher education. The book combines Carolin Kreber's previous research on authenticity with earlier work on the scholarship of teaching, offering a provocative, fresh and timely perspective on the scholarship of university teaching and professional learning.

Higher Education and Hope

Author : Paul Gibbs
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030135667
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Higher Education and Hope written by Paul Gibbs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world, the landscape of Higher Education is increasingly shaped by discourses of employability, rankings, and student satisfaction. Under these conditions, the role of universities in preparing students for all facets of life, and to contribute to the public good, is reshaped in significant ways: ways which are often negative and pessimistic. This book raises important and pressing questions about the nature and role of universities as formative educational institutions, drawing together contributors from both Western and non-Western perspectives. While the editors and contributors critique the current situation, the chapters evince a more humane and compassionate framing of the work of and in universities, based on positive and valued relationships and notions of the good. Drawing together a wide range of theoretical and conceptual frameworks to illuminate the issues discussed, this volume changes the debate to one of hopefulness and inspiration about the role of higher education for the public good: ultimately looking towards a potentially exciting and rewarding future through which humanity and the planet can flourish.

Transdisciplinary Higher Education

Author : Paul Gibbs
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319561855
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Transdisciplinary Higher Education written by Paul Gibbs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not just about thinking or acting in transdisciplinary ways, but about being transdisciplinary. To achieve this requires a deconstruction of our current way of acting within the definition of being that others impose upon us. Transdisciplinarity is a phenomenological perspective of reality and its manifestation in the world in which we exist. The volume develops a widely based transdisciplinary understanding of the issues faced by higher education institutions and those who work within and with these institutions to educate professionals. It incorporates international contributions from organisational theory, anthropologists, historians, psychologists, social sciences, philosophers and practitioners to create a volume that makes an important and distinct contribution to the literature on higher education and professional practice. “Transdisciplinarity provides one of our greatest challenges in higher education, both to the way it is organized and to the nature of the curriculum. This book is an important contribution to the debate about its implications.” “Higher education is being challenged by the nature of knowledge and how it is organized—the world is transdisciplinary but out institutions are constrained by the disciplines. This book contributes to the important debates about the challenges transdisciplinarity provides to our institutions.” Professor David Boud Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney

Neoliberalism, Economism and Higher Education

Author : Almantas Samalavičius
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152750980X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Neoliberalism, Economism and Higher Education written by Almantas Samalavičius and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise volume presents a series of conversations conducted by its editor with internationally renowned educators, scholars and social critics. The primary focus is on a set of important social and cultural issues and the complex nature of the global contemporary crises in higher education and economics, and the values and goals educational institutions pursue and produce. Contributors to this volume discuss why the present systems of higher education are ailing almost everywhere, and which remedies have turned out to be their poison. The contributions here investigate how and why universities and the knowledge they seek have become hostages to an ideology based on neoliberalism, economism and a fundamentalism of the market. These ideologies have reshaped higher education and contributed to its commodification and commercialization, transforming educational institutions according to a model that originated in the domains of global business enterprises. Bureaucratization and the growth of a managerial class in higher education have led to universities that focus on what is purportedly marketable, while neglecting the commitment to the pursuit of truth, the education of character and the cultivation of civic values that informed older educational models. The contributors to this book argue, from many different angles, for resistance to these recent developments within higher education.

Being and Becoming Through Higher Education

Author : Gloria Dall’Alba
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819720621
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Being and Becoming Through Higher Education written by Gloria Dall’Alba and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Higher Education in Austerity Europe

Author : Jon Nixon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474277276
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Higher Education in Austerity Europe written by Jon Nixon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The financial crisis of 2007/2008 prompted governments across Europe to adopt austerity measures aimed at the reduction of their escalating budget deficits. Higher Education in Austerity Europe explores how the resulting cuts in public expenditure - together with the increasing reliance on the privatisation of services - have impacted on higher education directly through the reduction of public sector provision and indirectly as a result of the social and political consequences of that reduction. Moreover, it explores how the effects of these economic policies have differed markedly across the national regions of Europe, with the result that inequality has increased significantly both within and between national regions, and this, in turn, has led to social and political dislocation within and across communities. It is only by viewing higher education within this broader context that we can begin to understand the full implications of the austerity measures introduced over the last ten years. Jon Nixon draws together leading scholars to delve into the complexity of impact and response generated by these measures. Part 1 focuses on cross-European perspectives; Part 2 on the impact of austerity measures within national systems; and Part 3 on new perspectives and possibilities. The volume also includes considered responses from 'outsiders' by academics located in Asia, Australia, and the USA, providing an additional dimension to the analysis. As well as analysing the full impact of austerity measures across some of the worst hit national regions of Europe, the contributors also identifying openings and possibilities for renewal.

Academic Identities in Higher Education

Author : Linda Evans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472579518
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Academic Identities in Higher Education written by Linda Evans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic identity is continually being formed and reformed by the institutional, socio-cultural and political contexts within which academic practitioners operate. In Europe the impact of the 2008 economic crisis and its continuing aftermath accounts for many of these changes, but the diverse cultures and histories of different regions are also significant factors, influencing how institutions adapt and resist, and how identities are shaped. Academic Identities in Higher Education highlights the multiple influences acting upon academic practitioners and documents some of the ways in which they are positioning themselves in relation to these often competing pressures. At a time when higher education is undergoing huge structural and systemic change there is increasing uncertainty regarding the nature of academic identity. Traditional notions compete with new and emergent ones, which are still in the process of formation and articulation. Academic Identities in Higher Education explores this process of formation and articulation and addresses the question: what does it mean to be an academic in 21st century Europe?

Higher Education and Love

Author : Victoria de Rijke
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030823717
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Higher Education and Love written by Victoria de Rijke and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explicitly unites the concepts of higher education and love to examine how these concepts are mutually compatible. As the world of higher education moves towards the metrics of value, and the worth of knowledge becomes more valued in its use rather than its discovery, a crisis brews. If higher education is to contribute to the wellbeing of the self and of others, then the institution needs to be radically reviewed to see if, and how, love contributes to higher education within and beyond its walls. This book addresses the core question of what would the university might be like, today and into the future, if the timeless notion of love was the basis of its educative process, notwithstanding the material artefacts the university helps to create, but also as a way of framing approaches to higher education.

Locating Social Justice in Higher Education Research

Author : Jan McArthur
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350086762
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Locating Social Justice in Higher Education Research written by Jan McArthur and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the relations between social justice and higher education research. Jan McArthur and Paul Ashwin bring together chapters from international researchers that explore these relations in a range of national contexts and consider their implications for policies, pedagogy and our understanding of the roles of graduates in societies. As a whole, the book argues that social justice needs to be more than a topic of higher education research and must also be part of the way that research is undertaken. Social justice must be located in research practices as well as in the issues that are researched.

Analysing Teaching-Learning Interactions in Higher Education

Author : Paul Ashwin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441124160
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Analysing Teaching-Learning Interactions in Higher Education written by Paul Ashwin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst current research into teaching and learning offers many insights into the experiences of academics and students in higher education, it has two significant shortcomings. It does not highlight the dynamic ways in which students and academics impact on each other in teaching-learning interactions or the ways in which these interactions are shaped by wider social processes. This book offers critical insight into existing perspectives on researching teaching and learning in higher education and argues that alternative perspectives are required in order to account for structure and agency in teaching-learning interactions in higher education. In considering four alternative perspectives, it examines the ways in which teaching-learning interactions are shaped by teaching-learning environments, student and academic identities, disciplinary knowledge practices and institutional cultures. It concludes by examining the conceptual and methodological implications of these analyses of teaching-learning interactions and provides the reader with an invaluable guide to alternative ways of conceptualising and researching teaching and learning in higher education.

The Emergence of the Ethically-Engaged University

Author : Emiliano Bosio
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031403126
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of the Ethically-Engaged University written by Emiliano Bosio and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume examines the role of the modern university as a public good institution ethically engaged in social transformation. Featuring contributions from internationally recognized scholars across both the Global North and South, this collection contexualizes issues in higher education such as community engagement, service learning, citizenship and civic responsibility both locally and globally (e.g., local, regional, national, and global engagement). Each chapter addresses the intangible, multifaceted dimensions of the relationships, community impact, and knowledge generation associated with community collaborations. In this way, the volume contributes towards the possibility of re-imagining the role of the modern university beyond a market-oriented, passive, and de-solidarized practices towards a more ethically engaged paradigm based on principles of mutuality, reciprocity and social responsibility.