11.-13. December 2024

PhD Course: PED8026 Higher Education: Past – Present – Future.

NTNU, Trondheim

Course credits: 5 ECTS

Thinking and theorizing higher education: anthropologies and epistemologies

This year’s PhD course will address the underlying anthropologies and epistemologies that might influence our research on educational processes in higher education. By exploring the implicit or explicit views of the human being, we might discover a profound source of theoretical creativity and critical thinking in how we orient ourselves in theoretical labor—in the theories, practices, and ourselves.

This critical potential will be thoroughly discussed in the PhD course. The primary resources will be your thinking and PhD work-in-progress, but also the thinking we find in key texts a) on higher education — by authors such as Biggs, Barnett, and Humboldt, and b) from the phenomenological and hermeneutical traditions — by Schütz, Merleau-Ponty, and Gadamer.

Read more: https://www.ntnu.no/ipl/ped8026

Registration is open. Contact Hege F. Lie if you would like to apply for the course.