{"product_id":"9781472521880","title":"Towards Teaching in Public : Reshaping the Modern University","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eTowards Teaching in Public\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTowards Teaching in Public: Reshaping the Modern University\u003c\/i\u003e explores how the contested relationships between policy, curriculum and pedagogy are reshaping the modern university and examines the impact of conceptualisations of teaching in public on this debate in this age of academic capitalism. It traces the emergence of strategies for open access, with particular reference to the contribution of technology and e-learning, to the emergence of teaching in public as a critique of current educational policy. The contributors combine policy analysis with a consideration of pedagogical issues and an exploration of the student experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection draws together chapters by experienced scholars and practitioners within the field of teaching and learning in higher education.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book is an inspiration. It elegantlycombines historical, sociological and philosophical analysis of the role ofuniversities with an argument for reconfiguring the teacher-student roles andrelationships. Anyone reading it will beconvinced of the both the desirability and feasibility of working foruniversity education for the public good.” —Monica McLean,Associate Professor of Higher Education, University of Nottingham, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Unlike many books by groups ofacademics defending universities against government termination of funding forthe arts and humanities while tripling fees in a free market that will lead toprivatisation, Mike Neary and his colleagues are not striking poses to be moreradical than their rivals in publication but are proposing practical waysforward for higher education that will keep inquiry and reason alive in darktimes. They are not doing this in an elite university which will continue toattract rich home and overseas students come what may but in a 'ModernUniversity', where they are pioneering student-centred approaches to researchand scholarship across the arts and sciences and especially in social science,where they build on the precedents of 'reinvention' and revolt, student-ledundergraduate research and Independent Study. Their initiative and example of'teaching in public', detailed in this book, embodies an ideal for contemporaryintellectuality which deserves the attention of students and staff across thesector and also in schools and colleges, as well as of the wider publicappalled at the Coalition government's callous cuts and barbaric disregard ofthe central role of the university in public life.” —Patrick Ainley, Professor of Training and Education in the School ofEducation and Training, University of Greenwich, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A timely book for all who want to step back and reflect on current controversies and debates about the meaning and purpose of higher education. It is a well-informed and wide-ranging exploration of pedagogical issues contextualised in the philosophical question about the meaning and purpose of higher education in the 21st century, and will appeal in particular to all who are committed to learning and teaching in universities and who have ever felt demoralised, demotivated and diminished by current political and economic exigencies. This book challenges the reader to think beyond the current state of higher education to more radical approaches to knowledge sharing, learning and teaching. The authors do not promise an easy route, but they do open up new possibilities for those in academia brave enough to explore them.” —Lin Norton, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Education, Liverpool Hope University, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“We have become so used to theidea that the public value of higher education must be tied to state provisionthat it is refreshing to see a set of authors willing not only to challengethat false piety but also offer some constructive proposals that promise toadvance the cause of democratic education in a world where the state is no moredependable an ally than the market.” —SteveFuller, Professor of Sociology and AugusteComte Chair in Social Epistemology, University of Warwick, UK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781472521880\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40647934279886,"sku":"9781472521880","price":46.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_873448fa-62b4-4aa7-81bf-951fdf008f01.jpg?v=1639189065","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781472521880","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}