Category: HE Past Events

For more information and to sign up click here. Registration deadline: Please no later than November 25th, 2020, at 23.59 Central European Time (CET) Time: November 30th, 2020, at 15.00-17.00 Central European Time (CET)  Max. participants: 120 Chair: Rikke Toft Nørgård, Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark The Power of Play Roundtable marks the conclusion of this autumn’s Playful Webinar…

4th annual Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Conference 19–20 October, 2020, Uppsala University, Sweden “the crisis of the university” is a familiar topos in contemporary discussions about higher education. It is said that the University is facing untold threats from, inter alia, the anti-intellec- tualism of populist politicians and authoritarian regimes, the commodification of knowledge…

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…

Edited by Professor Paul Gibbs This first volume focusing on compassion in higher education examines how the university can reclaim its moral leadership. It develops a pedagogy of compassion in two critical areas: curriculum and assessment. This book offers a moral rather than instrumental notion of university education whilst locating the university within society. It…

Edited by Paul Gibbs, Oili-Helena Ylijoki, Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela, Ronald Barnett Higher education and the institution of the university exist in time, their essential nature now continually subject to change: change in students, in knowledge, in structure and in their own communities and those they service. These changes are accompanied by a quickening of time, leading to a heightened intensity…

Edited by Paul Gibbs 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…

Edited by Paul Gibbs and Ronald Barnett With higher education around the world in a period of extreme flux, this volume explores its underlying philosophy, a core element of the ongoing debate. Offering a diverse range of perspectives from an international selection of renowned scholars of higher education, the book is full of imaginative insights…