Towards Teaching in Public

Howard Stevenson is Professor of Education and Deputy Director of the Centre for Educational Research and Development at the University of Lincoln, UK. Les Bell is Emeritus Professor of Educational Management at the School of Education, University of Leicester, UK, and Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Lincoln, UK. Before his retirement in July 2006, he was a member of the Centre for Educational Leadership and Management and Director of the Doctorate in Education programme at the University of Leicester, UK. Mike Neary is Professor and Dean of Teaching and Learning at Lincoln University, UK, where he is Director of the Centre for Educational Research and Development. He is the Founding Director of the Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research, a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning based at Warwick and Oxford Brookes Universities, and is a National Teaching Fellow.

‘This book is an inspiration. It elegantly combines historical, sociological and philosophical analysis of the role of universities with an argument for reconfiguring the teacher-student roles and relationships. Anyone reading it will be convinced of the both the desirability and feasibility of working for university education for the public good.' Monica McLean, Associate Professor of Higher Education, University of Nottingham, UK

• Notes on Contributors; Preface; Part I: Education as a Public Good; 1.Teaching in Public: Remaking the University in an Era of Academic Capitalism Mike Neary; 2.Teaching in Public: Revolution as Evolution Angela Thody; 3.Teaching in Public: Participation and Access Les Bell; Part II: The Student/Teacher Nexus; 4.Rethinking the Student/Teacher Nexus: Students as Observers of the Practice of Teaching Karin Crawford; 5.The Student as Scholar: Research and the Undergraduate Student Andy Hagyard and Sue Watling 6.Invisible Publics: Higher Education and Digital Exclusion Sue Watling; Part III: Teaching as a Public Activity; 7.Open Education: From the Freedom of Things to the Freedom of People Joss Winn; 8. Making Teaching Public: Cracking Open our Professional Practice Aileen Morris and Howard Stevenson; 9.Public Technology: Challenging the Commodification of Knowledge Julian Beckton; 10.Beyond Teaching in Public: The University as a Form of Social Knowing Mike Neary; References; Index.