Change universities, education and research

Keri Facer reflects on the history, present reality and possible future of universities. She argues that a key task of the university this century is to enable a long term shift to living with a lively planet.

She also points to seemingly ‘alternative’ educational institutions that have been highlighting the shortcomings of the dominant educational mono-cultures, and warn us of an educational system that is overly oriented towards one particular future (of endless growth) and the values of only one sort of (cognitive/Western) knowledge.

See also

Facer, K. (2022). Imagination and the Future University: Between Critique and Desire. Critical Times, 5(1), 202–216.
Raffoul, A., Fopp, D., Elfversson, E., & Carolan, R. (2023). The climate crisis gives science a new role. Here’s how research ethics must change too. Academic Matters.
McGeown, C. & Barry, J (2023). Agents of (un)sustainability: democratising universities for the planetary crisis. Frontiers in Sustainability, Volume 4 – 2023.
Bacal, A. & Mossberg, D. (2023). On the road with Freire into the urgent now. Café com Paulo Freire podcast – Learning, Life and Liberation.

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