Member's Book
Being and becoming through higher education: Expanding possibilities
Edited by Gloria Dall'Alba
Springer — Singapore — 2024
Given that multiple – sometimes competing – demands are being made of higher education, what is it to focus on doing and for what purpose? Higher education arguably has a responsibility to develop how students are learning to be in the present and becoming into the future. This development is not limited to the individual, however. It occurs, and has relevance, within the communities to which students belong and those within which they aspire to participate, such as professional communities.
This book is intended to prompt re-imagining the ways in which higher education is conceived and conducted. An argument is put forward for greater emphasis on expanding possibilities for knowing, acting and being, toward fuller lives of interdependence with others and things in an interconnected world. Through highlighting an ontological dimension in this manner, a hope-filled future emerges for higher education.
This book is intended to prompt re-imagining the ways in which higher education is conceived and conducted. An argument is put forward for greater emphasis on expanding possibilities for knowing, acting and being, toward fuller lives of interdependence with others and things in an interconnected world. Through highlighting an ontological dimension in this manner, a hope-filled future emerges for higher education.