Introduction

Abstract

This book's purpose is simple, to offer a space for thinkers about higher education to tell us about what they think and to encourage the reader to think about higher education themselves. Things are never that straightforward! When released from the institutional constrains of higher education from within universities we open the possibilities of creative engagement with what might be, as well as, what is and has been. In inviting contributors to this book, we were of the view that the contemporary debate exhibits a particular kind of shortcoming. The shortcoming that we saw lay in the lack of a positive and purposeful thinking as to what higher education might be. Accordingly, these chapters offer and reach out towards a reconceptualisation and an emergent way of describing how higher education might service the goal of to enabling the flourishing of individual and society.