Towards Teaching in Public

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.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.

• Notes on ContributorsForeword, Mary Stuart AcknowledgementsPart I: Education as a Public Good (Editor: Les Bell) 1. Teaching in Public: Reshaping the University, Mike Neary and Aileen Morris2. Teaching in Public: Revolution as Evolution in Nineteenth-Century Higher Education, Angela Thody3. Teaching in Public: Participation and Access in Twentieth-Century Higher Education, Les Bell Part II: The Student/Teacher Nexus (Editor: Howard Stevenson)4. Rethinking the Student/Teacher Nexus: Students as Consultants on Teaching in Higher Education, Karin Crawford 5. The Student as Scholar: Research and the Undergraduate Student, Andy Hagyard and Sue Watling6. Invisible Publics: Higher Education and Digital Exclusion, Sue Watling Part III: Teaching as a Public Activity (Editor: Mike Neary) 7. Making Teaching Public: Cracking Open Professional Practice, Aileen Morris and Howard Stevenson8. Public Technology: Challenging the Commodification of Knowledge, Julian Beckton9. Open Education: From the Freedom of Things to the Freedom of People, Joss Winn10. Beyond Teaching in Public: The University as a Form of Social Knowing, Mike NearyReferencesIndex

This book is an inspiration. It elegantly combines historical, sociological and philosophical analysis of the role of universities with an argument for reconfiguring the teacher-student roles and relationships. Anyone reading it will beconvinced of the both the desirability and feasibility of working for university education for the public good.