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Book SynopsisThis multidisciplinary book brings together scholars from Norway and the UK to discuss the notion of trust within the structures and forms of higher education located in two distinctive localities. The meaning of trust is multi-variant and nuanced, but is omnipresent in the literature on higher education ranging from student engagement to policy exhortations. A key feature of this book is the effort to integrate the term ‘trust’ conceptually, functionally and phenomenological more generally as well as within the context of higher education. Practice from within Norway and the UK is used to illustrate and expose relevant similarities and varieties in trust and the (possible) lack of it within the sector. The book thus faces the complexity of trust and its distinctive manifestation through a number of analytical lenses and realities.
Table of ContentsForword (David Palfryman).- Chapter 1: Introduction – Trust and Higher Education (Paul Gibbs and Peter Maassen).- Section One: Trust in Various Settings – Exploring Norwegian and UK Higher Education Practices.- Chapter 2: Trust and Higher Education Governance in Norway and the United Kingdom (Peter Maassen and Bjørn Stensaker).- Chapter 3: Trust in Higher Education Policy-Making (Alex Elwick and Philipp Friedrich).- Chapter 4: Trust in the Informal Leadership of UK Higher Education in an Era of Global Uncertainty (Jill Jameson).- Chapter 5: Institutionalising Distrust? The Changing Relationship between Higher Education and the Labour Market in Norway (Mari Elken and Silje-Maria Tellmann).- Chapter 6: The Distrust of Students as Learners: Myths and Realities (Bruce Macfarlane).- Chapter 7: Epistemic Cultures and Trust in Professional Work in Norway: Explorations into Three Settings in Nursing (Karen Jensen).- Chapter 8: Trust in Peers: Conditions of Trust in Faculty-Based Peer Review of Teaching in Norway (Thomas de Lange, Anne Line Wittek and Audun Bjerknes).- Section Two: Trusting in higher education: multiple perspectives.- Chapter 9: Trust, Control, and Responsibility in Research – an Accountability Perspective (Andreas Hoecht).- Chapter 10: Trusting in Higher Education - an Anthropological Perspective (Kate Maguire).- Chapter 11: Trust over Surveillance: Understanding Reciprocity – a Philosophical Perspective (Alison Scott-Baumann).- Chapter 12: Self-Deception and the Duty of the Truth-teller in the University – a Values Perspective (Paul Gibbs).- Chapter 13: Coda (Paul Gibbs and Peter Maassen)
