Education

What is Education? by Philip W. Jackson

by Simon Marginson •

June 2012, no. 342

University of Chicago Press, $32.95 hb, 134 pp

Education

What is Education? by Philip W. Jackson

by Simon Marginson •

June 2012, no. 342

What are we to do about education? Few other human enterprises are discussed more often – family, money, sex, and politics, perhaps – but the practice of education never comes close to satisfying us.

Simon Marginson

Simon Marginson is a professor in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. His recent books include Ideas for Intercultural Education (with Erlenawati Sawir, 2011) and Higher Education in the Asia Pacific: Strategic Response to Globalization (edited with Sarjit Kaur and Erlenawati Sawir, 2011).

From the New Issue

Biography

Bonjour, Mademoiselle!: April Ashley and the pursuit of a lovely life by Jacqueline Kent and Tom Roberts

by Sam Elkin
History

Lost Souls: Soviet displaced persons and the birth of the Cold War by Sheila Fitzpatrick

by Phillip Deery
Music

The Tenderness of Silent Minds: Benjamin Britten and his War Requiem by Martha C. Nussbaum

by Paul Kildea
Religion

Hope: The autobiography by Pope Francis and translated by Richard Dixon

by Miles Pattenden

Simon Marginson

From the New Issue

Bonjour, Mademoiselle!: April Ashley and the pursuit of a lovely life by Jacqueline Kent and Tom Roberts

Lost Souls: Soviet displaced persons and the birth of the Cold War by Sheila Fitzpatrick

The Tenderness of Silent Minds: Benjamin Britten and his War Requiem by Martha C. Nussbaum

Hope: The autobiography by Pope Francis and translated by Richard Dixon

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