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.
1. How do Scholars and academics differ?.-
2. Scholarship in the
University: An Ecological Perspective.- 3.Science and speed addiction: the
scholars vocation in the age of efficiency.-
4. The Academic Citizen
Scholar.-
5. The Scholar as Labourer: John Bergers Revolutionary
Confabulations.-
6. Realising relational education: Integrated spaces to
promote scholarly pedagogic enquiry.-
7. The slow scholar in the accelerated
university: Slowness as solidarity.-
8. The working-class scholar: more than
an academic matter? .-
9. The Post-Soviet Scholar: From the Spaces of
Inaction Towards Public Thinking and Multiple Agoras.-
10. A scholar as
wanderer and wonderer.-
11. Can scholarship exist in a non-learning
organization?: the case of neoliberal universities.-
12. The Notion of the
Scholar Among the Chinese: From Confucianism to Contemporary Practice.-
13.
Reimagining the Vocation of Being a Scholar at the Intersection of Islamic
and Western Higher Education: A proposal.-
14. Restoring sensations of
freedom a note on the poetic resonance of Indigenous research beyond public
universities.
Paul Gibbs is Emeritus Professor and founder of the Centre for Education Research and Scholarship at Middlesex University, UK, Visiting Professor at University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and Azerbaijan and East European Universities.
Victoria de Rijke is Professor of Arts & Education and Director of the Centre for Education Research and Scholarship at Middlesex University, UK.
Andrew Peterson is Professor of Character and Citizenship Education and Deputy Director of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at the University of Birmingham, UK.
