Outline of contributions for the special issue on ‘Imagining the Future University’
Søren S. E. Bengtsen (Aarhus University, DK) and Ron Barnett (University College London, UK) have just announced all the contributions that were selected for the special issue of Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education (PTIHE) on “Imagining the Future University”.
- Bruce Macfarlane (United Kingdom): “Values in higher education: re-imagining a future based on student academic freedom”
- Barbara M. Grant (New Zealand): “A thousand tiny universities”
- Krystian Szadkowski & Jakub Krzeski (Poland): ‘Political Ontologies of the Future University: Individual, Social, Communal”
- Merete Wiberg (Denmark): “Academic understanding and listening in future universities”
- David S. Owen (United States): “The Vanguard University”
- Rikke Toft Nørgård & Janus Holst Aaen (Denmark): “University of the body: Academic existence between disgust and desire”
- Sebastian Fiedler (Germany): “Digital instrumentation in higher education: deliberations on complacency and resistance”
- Nuraan Davids & Yusef Waghid (South Africa): “Higher education in South Africa: A future so muddy, it cannot be left to stand (with respect to Lao Tzu’s “Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.”)”
- Jan McArthur (United Kingdom): “A university dedicated to the “vicissitudes of human fate”: a vision for the future drawn from Horkheimer”
- Finn Thorbjørn Hansen (Denmark): “From Wicked to Delicate Problems in Higher Education: Why existential wonder can be a practice in meaning-driven innovation teaching in higher education”
- Wesley Shumar (United States) & Sarah Robinson (Denmark): “Agency, identity & risk-taking in entrepreneurship education”
It sure looks like this will be an interesting collection of papers.