Critical Practice in Higher Education

Karen Gravett (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-38513-9 (ISBN)

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This book argues that engaging in critical practice is fundamental to meaningful teaching, learning and research; and it is key to understanding societies, technologies, and the power relations that pervade our practice. Critical approaches are vital for responding meaningfully to some of the knotty questions that we face in higher education. And yet, there is a need to re-examine critical theorising in contemporary times, to address the limitations of current conceptions of criticality, where critique is at risk of becoming stale, redundant, even harmful.

International in scope, this book engages theory and empirical data from recent research to offer new ways of thinking and doing critical practice. Case studies are drawn from teachers and academics working in the UK, Australia, and America, across a breadth of disciplines and learning environments. Specifically, the book proposes a move towards a relational critical practice. Elaborating a critical practice that considers the affective, embodied and relational nature of criticality, this text will explore how we might look more closely at the entanglement of ideas and practice, of mind and body, of thinking, feeling and doing. In doing so, this book argues for a celebration of critique, and for the value of a relational critical practice in higher education.

Karen Gravett is Associate Professor in Higher Education at the University of Surrey, UK.

Acknowledgements
Introduction: What Is Critical Practice
1 A Thoughtful Activism
2 Theory Matters
3 Situating Critical Practice
4 Space – Time – Rhythm
5 Developing Critical Voices
6 A Habit of Questioning
7 Thinking with Theory
8 Collaborative Critical Practice
9 Relational Critical Practice

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Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.1.2025
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	1-350-38513-1 / 1350385131
ISBN-13	978-1-350-38513-9 / 9781350385139
Zustand	Neuware