Teaching and Learning in Higher Education : The Context of Being, Interculturality and New Knowledge Systems

This book approaches notions of Being, Interculturality and New Knowledge Systems, through a team of expert contributors who share their evidence-based knowledge constructed within diverse geo-political borders. It explores the disjuncture, assumptions, and beliefs associated with the concepts of Being, Interculturality and New Knowledge Systems, to reveal avenues for reconsidering untapped bodies of knowledge and how they are being positioned within teaching, learning and researching in higher education.

This volume is built on conceptual and theoretical insights from a range of different disciplines, and explores the social-historical underpinnings of Being, 'becoming' and 'to be'. The book deepens understanding on Indigeneity and how culturally diverse, environmentally sustaining, interculturally and transnationally unprecedented, alternative knowledges have long been disregarded as globally irrelevant and intellectually insignificant. It attempts to address the missing connections between what is recognised as 'global knowledge' and the locally situated, underrepresented knowledges that are being constructed within diverse types of peripheries across contexts.

This edited volume is essential reading for academics, researchers, policy-makers and students in higher education.

Margaret Kumar is Senior Fellow (Hon) at the University of Melbourne, Australia and Adjunct Professor at Centurion University, Odisha, India. She has worked as Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Education and the Institute of Koorie Education at Deakin University, Australia. Her research focus is on Being and New Knowledge Systems.

Thushari Welikala is a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education Innovation and Development at the Institute of Medical and Biomedical Education, St George's, University of London, and a visiting lecturer at King's College London. Her main research focus is on interculturality and the internationalisation of higher education.