The Layered Landscape of Higher Education

Capturing Curriculum, Diversity, and Cultures of Learning in Australia

By: Margaret Kumar (Editor), Supriya Pattanayak (Editor), Nish Belford (Editor)

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Hardcover | 2 August 2024

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316 Pages

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This edited collection interrogates notions of curriculum, inclusivity, diversity, and cultures of learning in higher education from a variety of cultural backgrounds and educational perspectives.

Bringing together an international selection of contributors from a range of disciplines, this book presents different avenues for rethinking the foundational base of cultures of learning while emphasising the importance of interculturality. The crux of the book lies in the fact that the contributors, living through complex cultures, speak/write from their own experiences of seeing, knowing, and doing. Through insights presented by the authors, the book promotes a broadened and deeper understanding of teaching and learning across diverse fields, including alternative knowledge, creative arts, education, technology, STEM, study skills, and environmental sustainability. Arguing for the need to review curriculum issues and policies at both an institutional and national level, it highlights the importance of creating collaborative spaces for constructing new and alternative scholarship and methods within higher education. Supported by case studies and examples of teaching practice, the text reveals the current state of educational and cultural changes and challenges for students and educators in higher education while looking towards the future.

This book is a requisite text for academics, researchers, policymakers, support staff, and postgraduate students in higher education.

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We form themselves partly through education, and we live in a shared world, one that continues towards convergence despite the complexity of the patterns and the climate-nature emergency that hangs overall. So, the unity-in-diversity encounter that is intercultural education, with its many possibilities for hybrid practices and much needed new thinking, might be the most important education for the future. This is a great book, accessible and full of ideas, which opens up a really exciting space for educationists.

Simon Marginson

Professor of Higher Education

University of Oxford

Displaying commendable qualities of self-reflexivity, the essays in this volume discuss how the current challenges facing systems of Higher Education require them to rethink their fundamental purposes and modes of governance. The essays suggest that the trends associated with technologization, globalization, marketization and the like have made it necessary for educators to consider the shifts in the ways in which knowledge is now created and distributed, curriculum priorities are negotiated and established, learning is structured and assessed, and institutions are governed and reformed. Narrating their own personal experiences, the authors show how deliberations over these issues increasingly demand political and ethical reflexivity.

Fazal Rizvi

Emeritus Professor

The University of Melbourne and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Rivers of knowledge flow stronger when the attributes of the tributaries are themselves strong and diverse. They will confront the stagnation of the status quo and closed mindsets then courageously take you to brave places of thinking and perspectives. So, allow yourself to get caught up in the current of deep thinking and the intellectual prismatic tapestry that this book provides, and let it take you to a new place.

Professor Mark Rose

Pro Vice-Chancellor, Indigenous Strategy and Innovation

Deakin University

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