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Using Social Theory in Higher Education

This open access book offers a unique and refreshing view on working with social theory in higher education. Using engaging first-person accounts coupled with critical intellectual analysis, the authors demonstrate how theory is grappled with as part of an ongoing practice rather than a momentary di...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Y.S. Low, Remy (Editor), Egan, Suzanne (Editor), Bell, Amani (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
Subjects:
Social Service
Social Sciences / Philosophy
Higher Education
Education, Higher
Social Theory
Teachers / Training Of
Teaching And Teacher Education
Educational Policy And Politics
Social Work
Education And State
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Other people’s ideas: An introduction to using social theory in higher education
  • Chapter 2 Sit Down, be Humble: The influence of the Work of Linda Tuhiwai Smith on our research
  • Chapter 3 The decolonial imperative - text and context: a response to Amani Bell and Gulwanyang Moran
  • Chapter 4 After Belonging: Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s ‘I Still Call Australia Home’
  • Chapter 5 In belonging: a response to Timothy Laurie
  • Chapter 6 Deploying Rose and Abi-Rached to ‘make sense’ of the rise of the ‘brain sciences’ in the field of violence against women
  • Chapter 7 What do we talk about when we talk about neuro? A response to Suzanne Egan
  • Chapter 8 The power, passions, and perils of identity: On Chantal Mouffe,
  • Chapter 9 Connections, engagements and troubles: a response to Remy Y.S. Low
  • Chapter 10 The Foggy Window: Passive empathy and the fight for testimonial reading in neoliberal higher education
  • Chapter 11 Performing empathy with neoliberalism, or Kendall Jenneron the streets, Thomas Gradgrind in the sheets: a response to Lauren Weber
  • Chapter 12 Understanding higher education enrolment through Michel Foucault’s biopolitics
  • Chapter 13 Students, biopolitics, and state racism: a response to Ren-Hao Xu
  • Chapter 14 Wrestling with monsters: critique, climate change, and comets
  • Chapter 15 Still wrestling with monsters: a response to Pat Norman
  • Chapter 16 Dialogues between activist knowledge and Southern Theory
  • Chapter 17 Approximate Geographies: a response to José Fernando Serrano Amaya
  • Chapter 18 The historian as pedagogue: on Hayden White’s practical past
  • Chapter 19 What stories to tell: a response to Remy Low
  • Chapter 20 The good university? Colourful histories, ongoing troubles and changing contexts
  • Chapter 21 The good university examined: a response to Meenakshi Krishnaraj, Ren-Hao Xu, and Pat Norman
  • Chapter 22 How we use social theory: common threads and concluding thoughts

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