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    Erich Auerbach and the Secular World

    Jon Nixon

    Erich Auerbach was a Jewish refugee who in exile in Istanbul during WWII wrote one of the major works of 20th Century literary criticism. This book explores the major themes…

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    Hannah Arendt: The Promise of Education

    Jon Nixon

    This book gathers some of Hannah Arendt’s core themes and focuses them on the question, ‘What is education for?’

    For Arendt, as for Aristotle, education is the means whereby we…

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    Hans-Georg Gadamer: The Hermeneutical Imagination

    Jon Nixon

    This book provides an introduction to Hans-Georg Gadamer’s thinking and shows how it might inform our own thinking about education as a lifelong process of engaging with one another and…

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    Erich Auerbach and the Secular World: Literary Criticism, Historiography, Post-Colonial Theory and Beyond

    Jon Nixon

    Erich Auerbach was a Jewish refugee who in exile in Istanbul during WWII wrote one of the major works of 20th Century literary criticism. This book explores the major themes…

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    Rosa Luxemburg and the Struggle for Democratic Renewal

    Jon Nixon

    An examination of the enduring legacy of Rosa Luxemburg and her importance for activists and intellectuals alike.

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    Rosa Luxemburg and the Struggle for Democratic Renewal

    Jon Nixon

    An examination of the enduring legacy of Rosa Luxemburg and her importance for activists and intellectuals alike.

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    Intellectual Leadership, Higher Education and Precarious Times

    This book draws on interdisciplinary social science and philosophical frameworks to offer new dimensions to debate about intellectual leadership and higher education. The chapters are focused on provoking readers to…

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    Higher Education in Austerity Europe

    The financial crisis of 2007/2008 prompted governments across Europe to adopt austerity measures aimed at the reduction of their escalating budget deficits. Higher Education in Austerity Europe explores how the…

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    Higher Education in Austerity Europe

    The financial crisis of 2007/2008 prompted governments across Europe to adopt austerity measures aimed at the reduction of their escalating budget deficits. Higher Education in Austerity Europe explores how the…

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    Towards the Virtuous University: The Moral Bases of Academic Practice

    Jon Nixon (Liverpool Hope University, UK)

    Written for higher education academics, staff developers, policy makers and leaders, this book aims to tackle a subject that is at the heart of higher education today: the nature of…

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    Towards the Virtuous University: The Moral Bases of Academic Practice

    Jon Nixon (Liverpool Hope University, UK)

    Written for higher education academics, staff developers, policy makers and leaders, this book aims to tackle a subject that is at the heart of higher education today: the nature of…

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    Higher Education and the Public Good: Imagining the University

    Professor Jon Nixon (The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

    Argues for the necessity of higher education as a public good, defining the institutional spaces necessary for sustaining these public goods and ensuring that they flourish. This book explores the…

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    Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education: Arendt, Berger, Said, Nussbaum and their Legacies

    Professor Jon Nixon (The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

    Provides a humanistic perspective on pedagogy by relating it to the interpretive practices of particular public educators: thinkers and writers whose work has had an immeasurable impact on how we…

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    Higher Education and the Public Good: Imagining the University

    Professor Jon Nixon (The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

    Argues the necessity of higher education as a public good, defining the institutional spaces necessary for sustaining these public goods and ensuring that they flourish. This book explores the institutional…

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    Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education: Arendt, Berger, Said, Nussbaum and their Legacies

    Professor Jon Nixon (The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

    Draws together pedagogy with practice and explores the pedagogical implications of the work of leading public educators.

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    Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Friendship

    Professor Jon Nixon (The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

    For Hannah Arendt, friendship had political relevance and importance. The essence of…

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    Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Friendship

    Professor Jon Nixon (The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

    For Hannah Arendt, friendship had political relevance and importance. The essence of…

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    Academic Identities in Higher Education: The Changing European Landscape

    Academic identity is continually being formed and reformed by the institutional, socio-cultural and political contexts within which academic practitioners operate. In Europe the impact of the 2008 economic crisis and…

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    Transforming Learning in Schools and Communities: The Remaking of Education for a Cosmopolitan Society

    Focuses upon how learning communities are transforming schools and communities throughout the world. This monograph analyses the organising principles of this cultural transformation and considers how it will shape learning…

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    The Reorientation of Higher Education: Challenging the East-West Dichotomy

    This book presents accounts of the repositioning of higher education institutions across a range of contexts in the East and the West.

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    The Reorientation of Higher Education: Challenging the East-West Dichotomy

    This book presents accounts of the repositioning of higher education institutions across a range of contexts in the East and the West.

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    Academic Identities in Higher Education: The Changing European Landscape

    Academic identity is continually being formed and reformed by the institutional, socio-cultural and political contexts within which academic practitioners operate. In Europe the impact of the 2008 economic crisis and…

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    Teaching About Race Relations (RLE Edu J): Problems and Effects

    Lawrence Stenhouse,Gajendra Verma (University of Manchester, UK),Robert Wild,Jon Nixon (Liverpool Hope University, UK)

    This is the report of two linked research projects: the SSRC Project on Problems and Effects of Teaching about Race Relations, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Project on Teaching About…

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    Teaching About Race Relations (RLE Edu J): Problems and Effects

    Lawrence Stenhouse,Gajendra Verma (University of Manchester, UK),Robert Wild,Jon Nixon (Liverpool Hope University, UK)

    This is the report of two linked research projects: the SSRC Project on Problems and Effects of Teaching about Race Relations, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Project on Teaching About…

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    Keeping Quiet: Paul Nixon: The Autobiography

    Paul Nixon,Jon Colman

    The wicketkeeper, known as his sport’s most prolific ‘sledger’, has amassed more than 20 years of stories from his career at the heart of the game and now reveals them…

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    Keeping Quiet: Paul Nixon: The Autobiography

    Paul Nixon,Jon Colman

    From Gower to Flintoff, Waugh to Vaughan, Cronje to Pietersen, Paul Nixon has shared a dressing room with some of the most evocative names in international and domestic cricket -…

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    Transforming Learning in Schools and Communities: The Remaking of Education for a Cosmopolitan Society

    A new monograph that focuses upon how learning communities are transforming schools and communities throughout the world.

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