Using Social Theory in Higher Education

This open access book offers a unique and refreshing view on working with social theory in higher education. Using engaging first-person accounts coupled with critical intellectual analysis, the authors demonstrate how theory is grappled with as part of an ongoing practice rather than a momentary di...

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Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Y.S. Low, Remy (Editor), Egan, Suzanne (Editor), Bell, Amani (Editor)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Edition:	1st ed. 2024.
Subjects:	Education, Higher. Social sciences > Philosophy. Teachers > Training of. Education and state. Social service. Higher Education. Social Theory. Teaching and Teacher Education. Educational Policy and Politics. Social Work.
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Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 Other people's ideas: An introduction to using social theory in higher education
Chapter 2 Sit Down, be Humble: The influence of the Work of Linda Tuhiwai Smith on our research
Chapter 3 The decolonial imperative - text and context: a response to Amani Bell and Gulwanyang Moran
Chapter 4 After Belonging: Aileen Moreton-Robinson's 'I Still Call Australia Home'
Chapter 5 In belonging: a response to Timothy Laurie
Chapter 6 Deploying Rose and Abi-Rached to 'make sense' of the rise of the 'brain sciences' in the field of violence against women
Chapter 7 What do we talk about when we talk about neuro? A response to Suzanne Egan
Chapter 8 The power, passions, and perils of identity: On Chantal Mouffe,
Chapter 9 Connections, engagements and troubles: a response to Remy Y.S. Low
Chapter 10 The Foggy Window: Passive empathy and the fight for testimonial reading in neoliberal higher education
Chapter 11 Performing empathy with neoliberalism, or Kendall Jenner on the streets, Thomas Gradgrind in the sheets: a response to Lauren Weber
Chapter 12 Understanding higher education enrolment through Michel Foucault's biopolitics
Chapter 13 Students, biopolitics, and state racism: a response to Ren-Hao Xu
Chapter 14 Wrestling with monsters: critique, climate change, and comets
Chapter 15 Still wrestling with monsters: a response to Pat Norman
Chapter 16 Dialogues between activist knowledge and Southern Theory
Chapter 17 Approximate Geographies: a response to José Fernando Serrano Amaya
Chapter 18 The historian as pedagogue: on Hayden White's practical past
Chapter 19 What stories to tell: a response to Remy Low
Chapter 20 The good university? Colourful histories, ongoing troubles and changing contexts
Chapter 21 The good university examined: a response to Meenakshi Krishnaraj, Ren-Hao Xu, and Pat Norman
Chapter 22 How we use social theory: common threads and concluding thoughts.

Using Social Theory in Higher Education

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