New Book - The Contemporary Scholar in Higher Education

We are delighted to announce that a new book has been published, The Contemporary Scholar in Higher Education, edited by Paul Gibbs, Victoria de Rijke and Andrew Peterson (Palgrave, 2024).

This book examines what a scholar looks and feels like in contemporary times. It suggests that scholars are more than people employed as academics and discusses how different world ideologies, cultures and systems view their scholars and how they might be considered in the changing and challenging nature of higher education. The book includes discussion from Islamic, Confucian, postcolonial and post-Soviet perspectives, alongside other approaches such as the scholar-artist, thinker, teacher and activist. It will appeal to students and scholars working in the philosophy of higher education, higher education practice and comparative studies.

Diane and I are pleased to say that we contributed a chapter to this collection which draws on our 2022 edited collection on integrated practice and third space professionalism. The title of the chapter is: Realising Relational Education: Integrated Spaces to Promote Scholarly Pedagogic Enquiry.

The book is available to access via the Springer website: The Contemporary Scholar in Higher Education: Forms, Ethos and World View | SpringerLink