BERA Bites, issue 9: What are we educating for?
This BERA Bites collection started out as a seminar series in which policymakers, educational practitioners and researchers came together to discuss what we are educating for across the English...
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Paul Ashwin, Professor
Professor of Higher Education at Lancaster University
Paul Ashwin is Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University. He is Deputy Director of the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) and leads the Centre’s Graduate Experiences of Employability and Knowledge project, which is examining the experiences of graduates of chemistry and chemical engineering in England, South Africa and the United States. His book, Transforming University Education: A Manifesto (Bloomsbury, 2020), argues for a focus on the educational, rather than economic, purposes of university degrees in order to understand their transformational impact on students and societies. He is also the lead author on Reflective Teaching in Higher Education (Bloomsbury 2015, 2020) written by an international team to support the development of research-informed university teaching.
Paul Ashwin's contributions
Editorial: What are we educating for? Introducing the BERA Blog Special Issue
This BERA Blog special issue started out as a seminar series in which we brought together policymakers, educational practitioners and researchers to discuss what we are educating for across the...
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What are we educating for?
Although it has always been significant, the question of what we are educating for is now particularly important. There is growing consensus that the educational challenges we face require...
Engaging with educational policy in difficult times
In December 1987, Secretary of State for Education Kenneth Baker summed up the purpose of the Education Reform Bill as ‘standards, freedom and choice’. Underpinning the bill was the belief...
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