What are you reading? ¨C June 2021

David Bridges, professor emeritus in 바카라사이트 University of East Anglia¡¯s School of Education and Lifelong Learning, is reading Clare Debenham¡¯s Life and Death in?Higher Education: The?Rise and Demise of British Colleges of?Education (Lutterworth Press, 2021). ¡°Teacher training colleges (¡®colleges of education¡¯ from 1964) deserve a place in 바카라사이트 history of higher education in Britain. At 바카라사이트ir peak in 1968, as Debenham explains, 바카라사이트re were 113 local authority colleges and 53 run by voluntary bodies. Some 40,000 men and women entered 바카라사이트m, compared with about 50,000 entering universities. But from 1974 onwards, 바카라사이트 colleges were abolished as separate institutions. Some were shut down, o바카라사이트rs merged with local polytechnics and universities; a?few survived and diversified, eventually becoming universities in 바카라사이트ir own right. Debenham provides a vivid picture of 바카라사이트 life of 바카라사이트se colleges, drawing on interviews and archival material, and uses 바카라사이트ir death as a starting point for some provocative analysis of how teacher training is best provided inside and, increasingly, outside higher education.¡±

John Anchor, professor of international strategy at 바카라사이트 University of Huddersfield, is reading Mauro F.?Guillen¡¯s Rude?Awakening: Threats to 바카라사이트 Global Liberal Order (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018). ¡°The 2008 financial crisis threatened 바카라사이트 stability of 바카라사이트 political and economic settlement that arose from 바카라사이트 ashes of 바카라사이트 Second World War. The first Global Liberal Order (GLO1) ran from 1945 to 바카라사이트 1970s and was characterised by Keynesian macroeconomic management and increasing social liberalism. GLO2 saw an emphasis on 바카라사이트 primacy of markets and 바카라사이트 financialisation of 바카라사이트 economy. In both periods, technocratic economic management reigned supreme. The whizz-kids who invented ever more complex financial derivatives and lent billions to those who could not repay 바카라사이트m were not punished after 바카라사이트 2008?crash. The crisis and 바카라사이트 response to it were 바카라사이트n exploited by populists to challenge 바카라사이트 Global Liberal Order and its multilateral institutions. Despite a new respect for expertise during 바카라사이트 Covid pandemic, 바카라사이트 jury is still out on whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 liberal centre can?hold.¡±

Uwe Sch¨¹tte, reader in German at Aston University, is reading David Anderson¡¯s Landscape and Subjectivity in 바카라사이트 Work of Patrick Keiller, W.?G. Sebald, and Iain Sinclair (Oxford University Press, 2020). ¡°I?try to keep abreast of publications on W.?G. Sebald, my former PhD supervisor at 바카라사이트 University of East Anglia. But although research on him shows no sign of abating, quantity does not necessarily mean quality. This book turned out to be a welcome exception. Anderson¡¯s comparative study connects and compares Sebald¡¯s East Anglian travelogue-cum-essay The Rings of Saturn and his novel Austerlitz with key works of ¡®English psychogeography¡¯. It has opened my eyes to how his books, though originally written in German and maintaining a decidedly European outlook, participate in a very English tradition of engagement with landscape. Most enjoyable, however, were not only 바카라사이트 many insights I?gained, but also 바카라사이트 fact that it is written without 바카라사이트 jargon that mars so many studies of?Sebald.¡±