Mass Intellectuality and Democratic Leadership in Higher Education

Richard Hall is Professor of Education and Technology at De Montfort University, UK, where he is Co-Director of the Institute for Education Futures. He is also a Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellow.Joss Winn is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Lincoln, UK.

• Series Editor’s Foreword1. Introduction (Richard Hall, De Montfort University, UK, and Joss Winn, University of Lincoln, UK) Part I: Power, History and Authority 2. Pedagogical Labor in an Age of Devalued Reproduction (Stevphen Shukaitis, University of Essex, UK, and Stefano Harney, Singapore Management University, Singapore)3. The Co-operative College in Historical Perspective: Visions and Challenges (Tom Woodin, Institute of Education, University College London, UK)4. Academic Voices: Public Intellectuals or Intellectualising the Public? (Mike Neary, University of Lincoln, UK)5. Openness, Politics, Power (Martin Paul Eve, University of Lincoln, UK)Part II: Potentialities 6. Emergent Educational Experiments Beyond ‘Extreme Neoliberalism’: Exploring Brazilian, English and Greek Academic Activists’ Trajectories from within and against the Neoliberalising University (Joyce Canaan, Independent Scholar)7. Still Spaces in the Academy? The Dialectic of University Social Movement Pedagogy (Eurig Scandrett, Queen Margaret University, UK)8. Bradford’s Community University: Exchanging Knowledges, Nurturing Activism or Promoting Intellectuality? (Jenny Pearce, University of Bradford, UK)9. Specialist Institutions and Aesthetic Education (Jonathan Owen Clark, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, UK, and Louise H. Jackson, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, UK)Part III: Praxis 10. Towards an Autonomous University Group – Birmingham Autonomous University 11. Reconciling Mass Intellectuality and Higher Education: Lessons from the People's Political Economy (PPE) Experience (Joel Lazarus, Independent Scholar)12. Somewhere Between Reform and Revolution: Alternative Higher Education and ‘The Unfinished’ (Gary Saunders, University of Lincoln, UK)13. Grassroots Education for Sustainability as Ecology of Mind: the Head, Hands and Heart of Societal Transformation (Thomas Henfrey, Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems, Bristol, UK)14. Mass Intellectuality from the Margins (Sara C. Motta, Newcastle University, Australia)Part IV: Conclusion: Politics, Aesthetics and Democracy 15. Practising What We Preach?: Writing and Publishing In, Against and Beyond the Neoliberal University (Gordon Asher, University of the West of Scotland, UK)BibliographyIndex

Intellectually stimulating, there are also persuasive arguments and indubitable academic excellence to be discovered ... A remarkable book that is certainly worthwhile reflecting upon for all who care about the future of HE and how to make it better.