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urn:uuid:cfe3c298-00e0-4cc1-b67e-795bbda94665 03 15 9781805115748 00 EB E101 10 01 01 Stories of Hope Reimagining Education 1 A01 Sandra Abegglen Sandra Abegglen, PhD, is a Researcher in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at the University of Calgary, where she explores online education and learning and teaching in the design studio. Sandra has extensive experience both as a social researcher and lecturer/programme leader. She is the project lead for TALON, the Teaching and Learning Online Network, and Playful Hybrid Higher Education. Sandra has published widely on emancipatory learning and teaching practice, creative and playful pedagogy, and remote education. She has been awarded for her work with the Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE) 2022 by Advance HE, and the Team Teaching Award 2020 by the University of Calgary. Find her personal website at: https://sandra-abegglen.com/ 2 B01 Tom Burns Tom Burns (1959–2024) was an Associate Teaching Professor in the Centre for Teaching Enhancement at London Metropolitan University, developing innovations with a special focus on praxes that ignite student curiosity, and develop power and voice. Always interested in theatre and the arts, and their role in teaching and learning, Tom developed theatre and film in unusual places, set up adventure playgrounds, events and festivals for his local community, and fed arts-based practice into his learning, teaching and assessments. Tom was a University Teaching Fellow and has received a Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE) 2022 by Advance HE. He co-authored Teaching, Learning and Study Skills: A Guide for Tutors and Essential Study Skills: The Complete Guide to Success at University (5th Edition, 2022), https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/essential-study-skills/book278189. 3 B01 Richard F. Heller Richard Heller, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Newcastle, Australia and of Public Health, University of Manchester, UK, has a medical degree and doctorate from the University of London, United Kingdom. He was Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Community Medicine at the University of Newcastle, Australia and Professor of Public Health at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Richard was also the founder and coordinator of the People’s Open Access Education Initiative (Peoples-uni, https://www.peoples-uni.org/), which aimed to provide Public Health capacity building in developing countries at low cost, through e-learning using open-access resources on the Internet and leading to an MPH degree. He is author of The Distributed University for Sustainable Higher Education (2022, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-6506-6). 4 B01 Rajan Madhok Rajan Madhok is a public health doctor who worked in senior medical management positions in the NHS. Alongside his service work he took a major interest in capacity building throughout his career. He is retired and lives in North Wales, and is keen to share his own learning with others. Rajan was Chair of the Trustees of Peoples-uni—https://www.peoples-uni.org/—holds honorary academic appointments at the University of Salford, UK, and Indian Institute of Public Health, Shillong, India, is a non-executive director of Llais (https://www.llaiswales.org/dr-rajan-madhok) and a governor on the Council of Coleg Cambria. He is the author of RaMa Reflections (https://www.ramareflections.com/). 5 B01 Fabian Neuhaus Fabian Neuhaus, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. His research in the urban environment focuses on the topics of habitus, type, and ornament. He has worked in Switzerland, Germany, Canada, and the UK. He is passionate about the scholarship of learning and teaching, and design pedagogy. He is the Principal Investigator for the Richard Parker Initiative and its associated projects, including NextCalgary (https://nextcalgary.ca/). 6 B01 John Sandars After training in hospital medicine, John Sandars entered the world of general practice. John was also a GP trainer, GP tutor, Macmillan GP Facilitator in Palliative Medicine, and part-time lecturer in general practice at the University of Manchester. He developed his academic career in medical education as Associate Professor in the Leeds Institute of Medical Education, University of Leeds and was appointed Professor in Medical Education at the University of Sheffield before moving to Edge Hill University in 2016 as Professor of Medical Education. John is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators and Higher Education Academy. He has received major funding for national and international projects and has over 200 peer-reviewed publications and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is an Associate Editor for Medical Teacher and a member of the editorial board for the International Journal of Medical Education. Find out more about John via: https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/person/professor-john-sandars/staff/ 7 B01 Sandra Sinfield Sandra Sinfield is an Associate Teaching Professor in Education and Learning Development in the Centre for Teaching Enhancement at London Metropolitan University and a co-founder of the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education. Sandra is a University Teaching Fellow and has received a Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE) 2022 by Advance HE. She has co-authored Teaching, Learning and Study Skills: A Guide for Tutors and Essential Study Skills: The Complete Guide to Success at University (5th Edition, 2022), https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/essential-study-skills/book278189. Sandra is interested in creativity as a liberatory and holistic practice in Higher Education; she has developed theatre and film in unusual places—and inhabited SecondLife as a learning space. 8 B01 Upasana Gitanjali Singh Upasana Gitanjali Singh, PhD, is the Academic Leader and Associate Professor in Information Systems and Technology at UKZN and holds academic appointments in Australia and Malaysia. She is an NRF C2-rated researcher in Educational Technology, achieving this distinction on her first application. With over fifteen years of teaching experience, she specialises in IT and has a strong passion for digital teaching and learning. Her prolific research includes four edited books and over sixty scholarly outputs, with numerous international keynote addresses. She founded and chairs the digiTAL2K conference, promoting global collaboration in digital education innovation. Prof. Singh has received several awards and led UKZN’s global engagements through MoUs with institutions across three continents. 01 eng 00 659 03 10 EDU015000 23 Education 23 Higher Education Reform 04 LB2806.23 10 EDU034000 23 Psychology and Psychoanalysis 23 Student Engagement 10 EDU040000 23 Innovative Teaching 10 EDU051000 23 Educational Leadership 10 EDU032000 23 Learning Transformation 10 EDU046000 23 Radical Hope in Education 01 06 03 00 Higher education is in crisis. Students are disengaged, lecturers are burned out, and universities seem more preoccupied with rankings and revenue than with knowledge and wellbeing. But rather than dwell on the problems, this book focuses on solutions—on hope.Bringing together a diverse range of educators and practitioners, this collection showcases real-world innovations that challenge the status quo and offer glimpses of a more humane and inspiring educational future. From rethinking systems and curriculum design to fostering imaginative collaboration and exploring the role of technology, the book highlights practical, hopeful interventions that are already making a difference.This is not a manifesto of complaints but an invitation to reimagine education. The contributors offer fresh perspectives from around the world, illustrating how small but meaningful changes can transform learning spaces, empower educators, and inspire students. For academics, teachers, administrators, and anyone invested in the future of education, this book serves as both a source of inspiration and a call to action. It is an evolving ecosystem of ideas—grounded in practice, rich with possibility, and rooted in radical hope. Now is the time to create the change we wish to see. 04 00 Biographies List of Illustrations Foreword Mary O’Kane Introduction: Reimagining education Sandra Abegglen, Tom Burns, Richard Heller, Rajan Madhok, Fabian Neuhaus, John Sandars, Sandra Sinfield, and Upasana Gitanjali Singh I. Examples of System Change Examples of system change: Introduction Rajan Madhok 1. Inverting the distribution of Higher Education: From top-down to student-led Richard F. Heller and Stephen Leeder 2. A critical pedagogy for a critical time Jane Booth 3. Serious fun: Reimagining Higher Education from a humane perspective Sarah Honeychurch 4. Fostering hope and humanity through transformative education: A call to reimagine mentorship Shivaani Chugh, Anurag Mishra, Aashima Dabas, and Chandini Chugh 5. Creating hope through T-shaped values Earle Abrahamson, Nina Namaste, Corinne A. Green, Mayi Arcellana-Panlilio, Lisa Hatfield, and Michelle J. Eady 6. The human and nothing but the whole human: With head, heart, and hand Nathalie Tasler 7. Becoming wildly nomadic with the Nomadic Detective Agency-Assemblage Mark Ingham 8. Playful Higher Education futures: Hopeful and utopian thinking in pedagogy Kim Holflod II. How Technology Can Shape the Future How technology can shape the future: Introduction Upasana Gitanjali Singh 9. The emotional impact of nature seen through the lenses of virtual reality (VR) and revealed through the power of expressive art Gabriella Rodolico and Fiona McGregor 10. CanadARThistories: Collaboratively designing an open-access course Johanna Amos and Alena Buis 11. PhDForum: An online quiet study room providing a public space that nurtures the personal experience of being part of a global community Donna Peach 12. “The art of conversation”: Educational guidance practitioners and support for distance-learning students Oliver Burney, Jennifer Hillman, Mark Kershaw, Stephanie Newton, Elizabeth Shakespeare, and Sean Starbuck III. Creative Curriculum Design Creative curriculum design: Introduction Tom Burns, Sandra Sinfield, and Sandra Abegglen 13. Hope Street: Reimagining learning journeys Laura Bissell and David Overend 14. The other F word: Re-storying student failure in Canadian Higher Education Victoria A. Fritz 15. “Armed love”: A case study in cultivating a pedagogy of hope Chris Cachia 16. The XXXX game: A character-based tool for learning Louise Sheridan 17. Reimagining the sage–guide dichotomy: A life-long learner’s story of teaching and learning in Higher Education Katherine Herbert and Yeslam Al-Saggaf 18. Playing with learning: Adopting a playful approach to Higher Education learning and teaching John Parkin 19. Making plants cool again: Re-introducing botany as a beacon of hope and innovation in our educational systems Geyan Surendran, Adam Bromley, James Connorton, Lian X. Liu, Paul A. Townsend, Michael Heinrich, and Shelini Surendran 20. Putting theory into (proposed) action: The significance of campaign planning as an assessment task Luke Ray Di Marco Campbell 21. Freedom to learn: Developing autonomous critical learners through self-assessment in Higher Education Agnese Di Domenico, Aidan Harvey, Beth Karp, Elizabeth Veldon, Ingeborg van Knippenberg, John Cowan, and Zack Moir 22. Hope in an art school Simone Maier IV. Imaginative Collaboration and Co-creation Imaginative collaboration and co-creation: Introduction Sandra Abegglen, Tom Burns, and Sandra Sinfield 23. Embracing compassion: Nonviolent communication for transformative teaching and learning in higher education Anna Troisi 24. Better Together: Towards a new organising principle and mindset for co-creation Nikita Asnani, Inca Hide-Wright, Jess Humphreys, Bo Kelestyn, and Jean Mutton 25. Peer review: No crime no punishment Debbie Holley 26. Co-creating networks of hope in an interdisciplinary degree for mature students Catherine Bates, Tracy Campbell, Colin Webb, and Lucy Yeboa 27. A quiet hope: Enhancing institution-wide inclusive assessment practices Siobhán O’Neill and Laura Lee 28. The moongazers: A creative vision of Higher Education Sandra Abegglen, Tom Burns, and Sandra Sinfield V. Beyond the Curriculum Beyond the curriculum: Introduction John Sandars 29. Learning vs education: A view beyond the divide Akitav Sharma 30. Belonging through compassion: Supporting hope through the design of a website for educational development and social justice Vikki Hill and Liz Bunting 31. Humanising student and instructor experiences to nurture relationships and improve engagement Umme Mansoory 32. The ten wellness spheres to support student and staff health and wellbeing in a modern, post-1992 university in, through, and outside of the study lifecycle Michelle Morgan 33. Unlocking a new generation of leaders: How universities can support students’ inner development goals Nayiri Keshishi 34. The pedagogy of joy and engaged presence Phoenix Perry 35. “Resilience Finders”: Flourishing in life through immersive game experiences Rachel Higdon and Hilary Thomson 36. Storying the silences of social mobility Karen Arm 37. How can you know what you don’t know?: Changing the narrative around the “successful learner” Stephanie Diane Jury 38. An imperfect practice? What barriers are there to providing outdoor education opportunities for primary-aged children? Megan McGee 39. Moving, making, and mingling: Moving towards an embodied pedagogy Susannah McKee and Marie Stephenson 40. Food for thought: Pandemic hope Hilda Mary Mulrooney 41. “It’s a bit like academic me-time”: Can virtual mini writing retreats contribute to a more joyful, creative, and humane Higher Education? Aspasia Eleni Paltoglou, Alison Williams, Arriarne Pugh, and Rossella Sorte 42. The opportunity of constraint: How beating one’s head against the wall can open a door Joshua Thorpe VI. Focus On the Teachers Focus on the teachers: Introduction Richard Heller 43. Addressing the challenges of the new, internationalised Higher Education ecosystem by applying successful teacher adaptation strategies: Promoting the human side of teaching in the Central European context Rita Koris, Marta Folmeg, Imre Fekete, and Ágnes Pál 44. If the tomatoes don’t grow, we don’t blame the plant: A reflection on co-created CPD sessions for staff reimagining education and the impact on their daily practice Mâir Bull, Stephanie Aldred, Sophie Bessant, Sydney-Marie Duignan, and Eileen Pollard 45. Embracing compassion and self-care: Educator wellbeing amidst the chaos Lee Fallin 46. Decoloniality and nonviolence as a pedagogy of hope: Chilean pre-service teachers and their reconceptualisation of inclusive classrooms Gaston Bacquet 47. Avengers Assemble! Working together and valuing professional services staff expertise in programme design Zak Liddell and Leigh Kilpert 48. “If you know, you know”: Creating lightbulb moments through reverse mentoring Rachael O’Connor Conclusion: Steps toward hope Sandra Abegglen, Tom Burns, Richard Heller, Rajan Madhok, Fabian Neuhaus, John Sandars, Sandra Sinfield, and Upasana Gitanjali Singh Index Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 04 01 20250702 02 WORLD 06 15 9781805115717 06 15 9781805115724 06 15 9781805115731 06 15 9781805115755 06 15 9781805115748 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 20 02 5.99 GBP WORLD