Faith, Diversity and Higher Education : Towards the Faith Based University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stringer, Martin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Faith.

Educational leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford : Ethics International Press Limited, 2025.

Summary:

Higher education institutions across the world are increasingly converging on a single model of what it is to be a university, driven by league tables, and a managerial approach to leadership. In this book the author asks whether there might be another way of being a university. Over a series of fifteen short reflections the author discusses higher education leadership drawing on his personal experience as a gay man, a Catholic, a social scientist, and a senior leader in higher education. The book begins with an exploration of the proposition of the uniqueness of every individual, and builds an approach that offers a radical challenge to all forms of classification. This leads to a critique of disciplinary boundaries, accepted approaches to learning and course design, and to management and leadership more generally, and a contemporary focus on identity politics.

Contents:

Intro

Prologue Towards the Faith Based University

Part One: Faith

Chapter One Why I Became a Catholic

Chapter Two What is an Activist?

Chapter Three The Secular University?

Chapter Four Prioritising Outsiders

Frankenstein

Gypsy, Roma, Traveller

Gender in Wales

Death

Chapter Five The Role of Chaplaincy

Culture and its Discontents

Creating Community

Situational Belief

Discourses, Demotic and Dominant

Adventures in Superdiversity

Reintroducing Prejudice

Part Two: Diversity

Chapter Six A Marriage Made in Heaven?

Faith and Sexuality

Race, Genocide and Micro-Aggressions.

Chapter Seven Diversity and Difference

Chapter Eight The Queer Academy

Anti-Disciplinarity

The New Collegiality

Chapter Nine Herding Dragons

Chapter Ten Telling Beautiful Lies

Jack and the Beanstalk: Privilege

Cinderella: Identity

Sleeping Beauty: Entitlement

Part Three: Higher Education

Chapter Eleven The Swansea Graduate

Chapter Twelve Student Expectations

Chapter Thirteen From Theory to Data

Chapter Fourteen Beyond Total E-Fabulous

Chapter Fifteen Ru Paul's Drag Race

Epilogue The Idea of a (Twenty-First Century Faith-Based) University

Acknowledgments

References.

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ISBN:

9781837111220

1837111227

OCLC:

1513422961