Book Launch of Czerniewicz, L and Cronin, C Eds. (2023) Higher Education for Good

Please join us on December 11th for the Galway launch of the book Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures. This new, open access book is a rich, diverse collection edited by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin, and authored by academics and professionals from 17 countries and multiple disciplines, including Su-Ming Khoo (Political Science & Sociology, University of Galway). You can access the book here.

Higher Education for Good offers hopeful new ways of thinking about higher education across a range of contexts, and how to concretise initiatives to deal with local and global challenges. In an unusual and refreshing way, the contributors provide insights about resilience tactics and collective actions across different levels of higher education using an array of styles and formats including essays, poetry, and speculative fiction.

This book launch event at the University of Galway will feature contributions from Catherine Cronin, Su-Ming Khoo, Kate Molloy (Atlantic Technological University) and Duduzile Unathi Ndlovu (University of Galway), as well opportunities for questions and discussion. Refreshments will be available.

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“This book is an experience, not just something to read. The originality of the book’s contribution lies not only in its engaging formats of images, prose, poetry and more, but in the inspiring and important intellectual contribution made by the chapters individually and collectively.” – Jan McArthur, Head of Educational Research, Lancaster University, UK

“The glimmers of optimism and hope for the future…provided by the authors … may help to change not only universities but the world.” – Caroline Guzmán-Valenzuela, Professor of Higher Education, Universidad de Tarapacá, Chile

“The authors in this stunning new book are not unaware of the power of institutions labouring under the weight of a political economy that reduces academic work to market value. What, then, about the “pockets of freedom” (Raaper, 2019) in universities that can be exploited to do the work of resistance and generate alternatives to teaching, learning, assessment, and the making of curriculum?…This courageous book works with an unspoken proposition, that we cannot wait for the neoliberal university to transform itself.” – Jonathan Jansen, Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Stellenbosch, and President of the Academy of Science of South Africa.

Registration

Please use the Eventbrite link to register for this event: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/galway-book-launch-higher-education-for-good-tickets-759585238897

This event is co-hosted by the Discipline of Sociology, Cillian Joy, Hardy Schwamm and Iain MacLaren in th Library, Open Scholarship Community and CELT, respectively.

This is an open-access publication, which you can access from Open Book Publishers here:   https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0363