Event type:

In person

Date & time:

29 Nov 2017, 18:00 – 19:15

Higher education as self-formation

Higher education can be understood as a process of self-formation or self-cultivation, immersed in complex knowledge, that enables the student to become more capable and more autonomous and self-determining. Here, the self-forming individual in education brings into practical form the idea of freedom to be and to do that is central to the human condition.

Professor Simon Marginson
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Higher education as self-formation

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Professor Simon Marginson

Director

Centre for Global Higher Education

Professor Marginson joined the UCL Institute of Education (IOE) in 2013, prior to which he was based at the universities of Melbourne and Monash. He is one of the most cited researchers in the field of higher education studies.

Simon draws on and integrates a range of social science disciplines in his work, primarily political economy and political philosophy, historical sociology and social theory. His work focuses on globalisation and higher education, international and comparative higher education, and higher education and social inequality. He is currently researching the implications of the worldwide trend to high participation systems of higher education.

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Organiser

Kate Thomas

ioe.events@ucl.ac.uk

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