Curriculum Challenges for Universities: Agenda for Change (Hardcover)

INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.- CRITICAL THINKING AND ENGAGEMENT.- 1 Critical thinking for an engaged university.- 2 The university’s social and civic role: time for an appraisal.- 3 The university as a public educator: learning and teaching for engagement.- 4 A crisis of knowledge: themes for an engaged university curriculum.- KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURE.- 5 Freedom through education: a promise postponed.- 6 Dancing in Nazareth: real knowledge beyond the boundary.- 7 A learning curriculum: exploring the professional doctorate of educational practice.- ENGAGEMENT AND DEMOCRACY.- 8 Academic and scholarly freedom: towards a ‘disputing’ university with critically engaged students.- 9 Ways of knowing: towards an ecology of learning and community.- 10 Towards a 21st century approach to civic engagement locally and globally: a conversation between Professor James Nyland and Professor Richard Teare.- THE FUTURE: SLOW BURN OR FAST FORWARD.- 11 The burning world: transformation and sustainability or apocalypse?.- 12 Indigenous knowledge in Australia: imagining a different society.- 13 The new normal after coronavirus: is there anyone here from education?.- CONCLUSION.- 14 Learning that matters.