Thinking about Higher Education

1. Introduction
Paul Gibbs, Ronald Barnett

Part I. Positive Imagination

2. Thinking about Higher Education
Ronald Barnett

3. Higher Education and Ethical Imagination
Marianna Papastephanou

4. Happiness not Salaries: The Decline of Universities and the Emergence of Higher Education
Paul Gibbs

Part II. Finding the Public Good

5. Higher Education and Public Good
Simon Marginson

6. Forces in Tension: The State, Civil Society and Market in the Future of the University
Brian Pusser

7. Beyond Neo-Liberalism: Higher Education in Europe and the Global Public Good
Barbara M. Kehm

8. Futures for Community Engagement: A Sociomaterial Perspective
Tara Fenwick

Part III. Which Knowledge and Who Can Have It

9. Babies and Bathwater: Revaluing the Role of the Academy in Knowledge
Leesa Wheelahan

10. Curriculum in Higher Education: Beyond False Choices
Suellen Shay

11. Finding a Voice as a Student
Denise Batchelor

12. Into the Heart of Things: Defrosting Educational Theory
Søren S. E. Bengtsen

13. Coda: Reaching for Higher Education
Ronald Barnett

Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, Professional & Vocational Education, Higher Education