Transformation of the University

Søren S. E. Bengtsen is Associate Professor at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the Co-Director of the research centre ‘Centre for Higher Education Futures’ and is also a founding member and Chair of the international academic association ‘Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society’. Ryan Evely Gildersleeve is Professor of Higher Education and Associate Dean for the Morgridge College of Education at the University of Denver, USA.

• Introduction: Understanding the transformation of the universitySøren S. E. Bengtsen & Ryan Evely Gildersleeve Part I: Knowledge 1. The university as honest brokerSharon Rider 2. Trust, critical hope and the contemporary universityJames Arvanitakis & David J. Hornsby 3. Transcending a single reality: Transdisciplinarity, the emerging forces of spirituality and a pedagogy of self-cultivation’Paul GibbsPart II: Cultural Growth 4. Decolonial reparation as re-humanisation in higher educationNuraan Davids5. Unfixing the university: Higher education and the ontology of travel Søren Bengtsen & Ryan Evely Gildersleeve6. Towards decolonisation and transformation in universities: Foregrounding Indigenous and transcultural knowledge systems and communities Catherine Manathunga, Jennifer Carter & Maria Raciti Part III: Institutions 7. University challenge: Realising utopias in the twenty-first centuryRonald Barnett 8. Looking for hope abroad: The new global university beyond neoliberalism Gerardo L. Blanco & Abdulghani Muthanna9. Programme ‘Future-se’: Brazilian higher education meets neoliberalismAlexandre Guilherme & Fernanda Felix de Oliveira10. What comes after the ruin? Designing for the arrival of preferable futures for the university Rikke Toft Nørgård Coda: Trust and visionSøren Bengtsen & Ryan E. Gildersleeve