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Author Schwittay, Anke Fleur, 1971- author

Title Creative universities : reimagining education for global challenges and alternative futures / Anke Schwittay
Published Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021

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Contents Front Cover -- Creative Universities: Reimagining Education for Global Challenges and Alternative Futures -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Figures, Tables and Images -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Invitation -- Outline of a critical-creative pedagogy -- Writing with courage -- Generative theory -- The radically creative university -- Imagining alternative futures -- Researching teaching -- The journey ahead: knowing what, being how, doing for -- 2 Remaking Academic Identities -- Resisting the neoliberalized university
Decolonizing the westernized university -- Cultivating critical-creative educators -- Whither saviourism -- Embodied learners -- Locating the personal -- Conclusion -- 3 Designing Futures -- What design? Why design? -- Learning by design -- Educational futuring by design -- Spaces matter -- Material making -- Designing back from the (urban) future -- Future food -- Conclusion -- 4 Reclaiming Economies -- (Development) economic orthodoxies -- Pluralist and heterodox teachings -- Pluralism in situ -- Diverse community economies -- Personal portfolios -- Cooperative designs -- Conclusion
5 Repairing Ecologies -- Decentring sustainable development -- From education for sustainable development to sustain-ability education -- Buen Vivir -- Complex sustain-able systems -- Serious games -- Mapping campus -- Conclusion -- 6 Prefiguring Alternatives -- Decentring employability -- Work experiences -- Decolonial movements -- Teaching activism? -- Student activists -- Conclusion -- 7 Capstones -- Opening up learning -- Sustain-able campuses -- Reimagining universities -- References -- Index -- Back Cover
Summary In this wide-ranging book, Anke Schwittay argues that, in order to inspire and equip students to generate better responses to global challenges, we need a new high education pedagogy that develops their imagination, creativity, emotional sensibilities and practical capabilities
Subject Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives.
Creative ability -- Study and teaching (Higher)
EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / General.
Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781529213676
1529213673
9781529213669
1529213665