Being and Becoming through Higher Education

Gloria Dall'Alba is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland, Australia, as well as a consultant on higher education and workplace learning. She has more than 30 years’ experience in university teaching and research, with over 75 invited presentations in 12 countries. Her research and scholarship integrate pedagogical with philosophical inquiry to inform and re-imagine how we educate. The focus of this research is learning and teaching in higher education and the workplace, with particular interest in the philosophy of higher education and educating for the professions. She has published widely on a range of issues relating to higher education, workplace learning and research inquiry. A strong strand of her research is interdisciplinary, including collaborations with researchers from Australia, Denmark, New Zealand, Sweden, the USA and Vietnam from the fields of higher education, business, dentistry, engineering, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, philosophy and physics.philosophy and physics.philosophy and physics.philosophy and physics.philosophy and physics.philosophy and physics. philosophy and physics. philosophy and physics. philosophy and physics. philosophy and physics.philosophy and physics.

Chapter 1. Embodied Being in Higher Education.- Chapter 2. An Ontological Turn for Higher Education.- Chapter 3. Learning Professional Ways of Being: Ambiguities of Becoming.- Chapter 4. Toward a Pedagogy of Responsive Attunement for Higher Education.- Chapter 5. Becoming Authentic Professionals: Learning for Authenticity.- Chapter 6. Bodily Grounds of Learning: Embodying Professional Practice in Biotechnology.- Chapter 7. Embodied Knowing in Online Environments.- Chapter 8. International Education and (Dis)Embodied Cosmopolitanisms.- Chapter 9. Re-Imagining Active Learning: Delving into Darkness.- Chapter 10. Committed to Learn: Student Engagement and Care in Higher Education.- Chapter 11. Committed to Learn: Student Engagement and Care in Higher Education.- Chapter 12. Evaluative Judgement for Learning to Be in a Digital World.- Chapter 13. Improving Teaching: Enhancing Ways of Being University Teachers.- Chapter 14. Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: Re-Thinking Teaching in HigherEducation.- Chapter 15. Re-Imagining the University: Developing a Capacity to Care.