Table of Contents

Introduction: Understanding the transformation of the university
Søren S. E. Bengtsen & Ryan Evely Gildersleeve

Part I: Knowledge

1. The university as honest broker
Sharon Rider

2. Trust, critical hope and the contemporary university
James Arvanitakis & David J. Hornsby

3. Transcending a single reality: Transdisciplinarity, the emerging forces of spirituality and a pedagogy of self-cultivation’
Paul Gibbs

Part II: Cultural Growth

4. Decolonial reparation as re-humanisation in higher education
Nuraan Davids

5. Unfixing the university: Higher education and the ontology of travel
Søren Bengtsen & Ryan Evely Gildersleeve

6. Towards decolonisation and transformation in universities: Foregrounding Indigenous and transcultural knowledge systems and communities
Catherine Manathunga, Jennifer Carter & Maria Raciti

Part III: Institutions

7. University challenge: Realising utopias in the twenty-first century
Ronald Barnett

8. Looking for hope abroad: The new global university beyond neoliberalism
Gerardo L. Blanco & Abdulghani Muthanna

9. Programme ‘Future-se’: Brazilian higher education meets neoliberalism
Alexandre Guilherme & Fernanda Felix de Oliveira

10. What comes after the ruin? Designing for the arrival of preferable futures for the university
Rikke Toft Nørgård

Coda: Trust and vision
Søren Bengtsen & Ryan E. Gildersleeve

About the Author

Søren S. E. Bengtsen is Associate Professor at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the Co-Director of the research centre ‘Centre for Higher Education Futures’ and is also a founding member and Chair of the international academic association ‘Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society’.

Ryan Evely Gildersleeve is Professor of Higher Education and Associate Dean for the Morgridge College of Education at the University of Denver, USA.