I recently came across Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures, an openly licensed book co-edited by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin. I haven’t read any of the book (yet) but it looks interesting.
From the editors:
The book sets out to confront, consider, and reimagine the challenges and opportunities of higher education in a range of global contexts at a time of multiple and intersecting crises. It opens up imaginative possibilities using multiple modalities: critical reflections; poetry; conceptual essays; speculative fiction; visual and audio forms; dialogue; graphic reflection and artwork.
Hope is firmly rooted in the belief that it is never too late.
Hope is practical. It means taking action, being disciplined, making plans.
Hope is impractical. It means dreaming, being undisciplined, being open-ended.
Hope is strengthened when practised in solidarity with others. It means building and strengthening alliances, coalitions, communities.
Hope is contested and contradictory. And yet whatever its form, it is essential.
Without hope, there would be no future worth living
The 71 authors and five artists come from 18 countries across six continents. While all chapters are grounded in theory, they range from deeply theoretical to case-based.
The book comprises five sections:
- Finding fortitude and hope
- Making sense of the unknown and emergent
- Considering alternative futures
- Making change through teaching, assessment and learning design
- (Re)making higher education structures and systems
The editors will be hosting online launches and a series of webinars to discuss the wide-ranging themes and issues covered in the book. Information about these events will be shared on the book’s web page listed above, as well as on a range of social media under the hashtag #HE4Good.