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Copyright

Andreas Wittel

Published On

2023-10-25

Page Range

pp. 183–198

Language

  • English

Print Length

16 pages

7. Fostering the gift

On property regimes and teaching pedagogies in higher education

This chapter argues that - like art - higher education is a gift, or better, that it can be a gift, a gift that needs to be fostered. For the gift to emerge, the political-economic context in which higher education operates needs to be explored. It is also necessary to examine teaching pedagogies that provide fertile soil for the gift. The chapter examines the potential of the gift to shine from two angles. The first angle - property regimes or political economies - compares the marketized university with higher education as a common. The second angle focuses on three teaching pedagogies that are particularly important in times of multiple and existential crises: resonance, relevance, and imagination.

Contributors

Andreas Wittel

(author)
Researcher, School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham Trent University

Andreas Wittel teaches and researches at the School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University (UK). His research explores the political economy of digital technologies and alternatives to capitalism. More recently his research explores questions of political ecology and possibilities to prevent environmental collapse, such as a political ecology of commoning in degrowth.