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Being and Becoming through Higher Education

Expanding Possibilities

  • Book
  • Jul 2024

Overview

Editors:
  1. Gloria Dall’Alba

    1. School of Education, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia

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  • Explores what being and becoming means for contemporary higher education, conceptually and for practice
  • Elaborates an ontological dimension of learning in the context of our embodied being-in-the-world
  • Integrates philosophical with pedagogical inquiry in exploring new possibilities for higher education

Part of the book series: Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives (DHEP, volume 13)

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Keywords

  • Being and Becoming in Higher Education
  • Developing a Capacity to Care Through Higher Education
  • Enhancing Ways of Being Through Higher Education
  • Epistemological and Ontological Dimensions of Learning
  • integration of philosophical with pedagogical inquiry
  • learning in the context of embodied being-in-the-world
  • learning ways of being
  • ontological dimension and embodied being-in-the-world
  • Ontological Turn in Higher Education
  • Student Being and Becoming through Higher Education
  • Life-World in Higher Education Research
  • transformative potential of higher education

About this book

This book focuses on the importance of an ontological dimension for today’s higher education, with critical attention to implications for the student experience, engagement, satisfaction, wellbeing, employability, (dis)embodiment and activism in which students take a stand on their own being and becoming. In accessible language, key philosophical ideas are explored for their relevance to contemporary higher education, integrating philosophical with pedagogical perspectives.  


Although much of the material has been published previously, there is value in bringing it together into a single volume in exploring an ontological dimension of higher education as it is embodied. In doing so, the book demonstrates benefits to pedagogy through sustained attention to philosophy and theory, and vice versa, thereby contributing to recent heightened interest in the philosophy and theory of 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. 



Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Education, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia

    Gloria Dall’Alba

About the editor

Gloria Dall'Alba is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland, Australia, as well as a consultant on higher education and workplace learning. She has more than 30 years’ experience in university teaching and research, with over 75 invited presentations in 12 countries. Her research and scholarship integrate pedagogical with philosophical inquiry to inform and re-imagine how we educate. The focus of this research is learning and teaching in higher education and the workplace, with particular interest in the philosophy of higher education and educating for the professions. She has published widely on a range of issues relating to higher education, workplace learning and research inquiry. A strong strand of her research is interdisciplinary, including collaborations with researchers from Australia, Denmark, New Zealand, Sweden, the USA and Vietnam from the fields of higher education, business, dentistry, engineering, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, philosophy and physics.philosophy and physics.philosophy and physics.philosophy and physics.philosophy and physics.philosophy and physics. philosophy and physics. philosophy and physics. philosophy and physics. philosophy and physics.philosophy and physics.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Being and Becoming through Higher Education

  • Book Subtitle: Expanding Possibilities

  • Editors: Gloria Dall’Alba

  • Series Title: Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-97-2061-3Due: 08 August 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-97-2064-4Due: 08 August 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-97-2062-0Due: 08 August 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2366-2573

  • Series E-ISSN: 2366-2581

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 257

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

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