Latest:
- Call for papers for next year’s (3rd annual) Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Conference (PHEC19), organised by the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society (PaTHES) in collaboration with the Laboratory of Education and Society, KU Leuven, Belgium. The conference is titled ‘Re-claiming Study Practices’ and takes place at KU Leuven, Belgium, September 18-20, 2019.
- An essay on Higher education and social mobility by Professor Tim Blackman, VC at Middlesex University
- Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education – an international refereed scholarly journal committed to advancing understanding of the role(s) and purpose(s) of higher education – now accepting submissions.
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Key books:
- Universities in the Flux of Time – edited by Paul Gibbs, Oili-Helena Ylijoki, Carolina Guzman-Valenzuela, Ronald Barnett
- Trusting in the University – by Paul Gibbs
- Thinking about Higher Education– edited by Paul Gibbs, Ronald Barnett
- Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives – series edited by Paul Gibbs, Amanda Fulford, Ronald Barnett
Previous events:
- On the 4th and 5th July, Middlesex University hosted a symposium on the Philosophy of Higher Education
- On the 31st August and 1st September, New College Oxford hosted a symposium of Trust, Happiness and Well-being in HE
Papers:
- Gibbs, P. 2008, What is work? A Heideggerian insight into work as a site for learning, Journal of Education and Work, 21, 5, 425–436.
- Gibbs, P. 2009, Gratitude in workplace research: A Rossian approach, Journal of Education and Work, 22, (1), pp.55-66.
- Gibbs, P. 2010, A Heideggerian phenomenology approach to higher education as a workplace: a consideration of academic professionalism, Studies in Philosophy and Education 29, (3) pp.275-285.
- Gibbs, P. 2011, The concept of profound boredom: learning from moments of vision, Studies in Philosophy and Education, 30:6.
- Gibbs, P. 2011, Finding quality in conversations of being good enough, Quality in Higher Education, 17: 2, pp. 139-150.
- Gibbs, P. 2011, The metaphor of therapy and its use in the learning of a workplace identity, Journal of Vocational Education and Training, pp. 63:4. 619-628.
- Gibbs, P. 2012, The workers community university, Higher Education Quarterly, 66 (1), 90-105
- Gibbs, P. 2014 The phenomenology of practice: A currere for professional practice Studies in Continuing Education 36 (2) 147-159
- Gibbs, P. 2015 Happiness and education: Troubling students for their own contentment, Time and Society, 34:1, 154-70
- Gibbs, P. 2016 Should Satisfaction Be a Higher Educative Aim? The case for contentment Educational Philosophy and Theory