Towards Teaching in Public: Reshaping the Modern University

Brief Description: Explores the concept of teaching in public, a debate seeking to defend the university as a publicly funded institution, based on progressive public values. Brief Description: "Explores the concept of teaching in public, a debate seeking to defend the university as a publicly funded institution, based on progressive public values"-- Provided by publisher. Biographical Note: Michael Neary is Professor and Dean of Teaching and Learning at Lincoln University, UK, where he is Director of the Centre for Educational Research and Development. He is the Founding Director of the Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research, a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning based at Warwick and Oxford Brookes Universities, and is a National Teaching Fellow. Howard Stevenson is Professor of Education and Deputy Director of the Centre for Educational Research and Development at the University of Lincoln, UK. Les Bell is Emeritus Professor of Educational Management at the School of Education, University of Leicester, UK, and Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Lincoln, UK. Before his retirement in July 2006, he was a member of the Centre for Educational Leadership and Management and Director of the Doctorate in Education programme at the University of Leicester, UK. Mary Stuart is Vice Chancellor of the University of Lincoln, UK. Brief Description: "Explores the concept of teaching in public, a debate seeking to defend the university as a publicly funded institution, based on progressive public values" -- Provided by publisher. Marc Notes: Explores the concept of teaching in public, a debate seeking to defend the university as a publicly funded institution, based on progressive public values-- Provided by publisher. Table of Contents: Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1. Education as a Public Good / Les Bell -- Chapter 1. Teaching in Public: Reshaping the University / Mike Neary, Aileen Morris -- Chapter 2. Teaching in Public: Revolution as Evolution in Nineteenth-Century Higher Education / Angela Thody -- Chapter 3. Teaching in Public: Participation and Access in Twentieth-Century Higher Education / Les Bell -- Part 2. The Student-Teacher Nexus / Howard Stevenson -- Chapter 4. Rethinking the Student-Teacher Nexus: Students as Consultants on Teaching in Higher Education / Karin Crawford -- Chapter 5. The Student as Scholar: Research and the Undergraduate Student / Andy Hagyard, Sue Watling -- Chapter 6. Invisible Publics: Higher Education and Digital Exclusion / Sue Watling -- Part 3. Teaching as a Public Activity / Mike Neary -- Chapter 7. Making Teaching Public: Cracking Open Professional Practice / Aileen Morris, Howard Stevenson -- Chapter 8. Public Technology: Challenging the Commodification of Knowledge / Julian Beckton -- Chapter 9. Open Education: From the Freedom of Things to the Freedom of People / Joss Winn -- Chapter 10. Beyond Teaching in Public: The University as a Form of Social Knowing / Mike Neary -- References -- Index.

Contributor Bio:  Neary, Mike Les Bell is Emeritus Professor of Educational Management at the School of Education, University of Leicester, UK, and Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Lincoln, UK. Before his retirement in July 2006, he was a member of the Centre for Educational Leadership and Management and Director of the Doctorate in Education programme at the University of Leicester, UK. Contributor Bio:  Stevenson, Howard Mike Neary is Professor and Dean of Teaching and Learning at Lincoln University, UK, where he is Director of the Centre for Educational Research and Development. He is the Founding Director of the Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research, a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning based at Warwick and Oxford Brookes Universities, and is a National Teaching Fellow. Contributor Bio:  Bell, Les Les Bell is Emeritus Professor of Educational Management at the School of Education, University of Leicester, UK, and Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Lincoln, UK. Before his retirement in July 2006, he was a member of the Centre for Educational Leadership and Management and Director of the Doctorate in Education programme at the University of Leicester, UK. Contributor Bio:  Stuart, Mary Mary Stuart is Vice Chancellor at the University of Lincoln. She is a life historian whose interests lie in social divisions and higher education.