Reclaiming the Teaching Discourse in Higher Education: Curating a Diversity of Theory and Practice

This book examines university teaching to encourage a move away from the singular lens of neoliberalism towards more a pluralistic stance that inspires a healthy diversity of theories and practices.University teaching is dominated by neoliberal cultures of measurement, consumerism and deficit, generating a monocultural narrative that disenfranchises the higher education teaching community.Collaborative communities of support are now perceived as performative regimes of surveillance, and existing injustices in the education system have been amplified by institutional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.This book offers a reappraisal of the current state of university teaching, and re-imaginings of potential futures.Inspired by emerging perspectives in educational research and building upon Biesta’s notion of the ‘rediscovery of teaching’, the book encourages an escape from accepted wisdom, liberating teaching from the bonds of reductive binary and linear thinking, and accepting the need