Storying Pedagogy as Critical Praxis in the Neoliberal University

Mark Vicars is Associate Professor at the College of Arts & Education at Victoria University, Melbourne. Mark’s research interests interrogate the discourses and pedagogies of social and educational inclusion in and across international educational systems. Following 24 years of working in education in several countries, with 15 of those in higher education, Mark has extensive international, multi-sector experience. He is highly experienced in developing international strategy on teaching and learning in Australia, Asia and the UK, generating international opportunities for collaborative partnerships focused on the teaching/research nexus. He has developed research affiliations and education partnerships internationally.Ligia Pelosi is Senior Lecturer at the College of Arts & Education at Victoria University and has worked in education for over 20 years, with 11 of those spent in higher education. Ligia’s research focuses on Arts-based and narrative methodologies. Ligia's interests in education center on literacy, creativity and narrative research methodologies. Underpinning Ligia’s research are the principles of social justice in education, and she is currently Chief Investigator at National Exceptional Teachers for Disadvantaged Schools (NETDS).

• Chapter 1: Introduction- Mark Vicars.- Chapter 2: Personal troubles, public concerns: a story from a neo-liberal academy- Pat Sikes.- Chapter 3: The posthuman university: a sign of our times- Gabriele Griffin.- Chapter 4 Higher Education under the Siege of Neoliberalism- Pierre Orelus.- Chapter 5:  Political Agency in the Era of Precision Education Governance in Higher Education -Kristiina Brunila.- Chapter 6: Shaping the Narratives – Indigenous Knowledges through Storying- Leanne Holt & Joe Perry.- Chapter 7“Critical Storytelling” as an Endowed Teacher Educator -Nicholas D. Hartlep.- Chapter 8:  Out of comfort zone: living an academic life in the neoliberalised context of Thai higher education-Nuntiya Doungphummes.- Chapter 9: Storying the journey of an academic using Freirean philosophy to explore History, Race, Gender and Class in a Globalised World- Anne Cheryl Armstrong.- Chapter 10:I paid for this, so now give it to me: University as retailer, knowledge as product, student as customer - Ligia Pelosi.- Chapter 11 Solitary suffering: 'Imagined' hierarchies in the new ethos of a neo liberal university- Naoko Araki.- Chapter 12 Who’s Zoomin’ Who?A slightly farcical take on the rush to online learning.- in the managerial academic era- Kip Jones.- Epilogue – Ligia Pelosi.