Amanda Fulford: "The University as Troublemaker"

Departmental Seminar: 3/3/21

Professor Amanda Fulford, Faculty of Education, Edge Hill University

The university is often portrayed as being in trouble, beset by financial difficulties, market pressures, declining standards, workforce dissatisfaction and student concerns about value for money. Using the etymology of ‘trouble’, this seminar seeks to disrupt such understandings by reclaiming the university not as an institution in trouble, but rather as troublemaker - as an 'agitator of minds'. In doing so, it will look at the pedagogical, political and personal implications of such a shift in thinking.

Bio
Amanda Fulford is Professor of Philosophy of Education and Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Education at Edge Hill University. Her research interests are in the philosophy of higher education, and in public and community forms of philosophy.