The Layered Landscape of Higher Education

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