Seeking contributions to Creativity and Higher Education in Southeast Asia Call for Papers: Creativity and Higher Education in Southeast Asia Editors: Catherine Earl and Jonathan J. Felix, RMIT Vietnam Description This volume aims to include original chapters, preferably based on empirical research that relates to the context of Southeast Asia, from any relevant discipline including interdisciplinary work. Ethnographically rich chapters that speak to policy challenges are very welcome. We encourage authors and practitioners located in Southeast Asia to make a proposal. The volume will be published in English. Southeast Asia is arguably at the forefront of higher education innovation and development. Many students across globalising Southeast Asia embrace an idea of creativity, perhaps with their eyes on new frontiers of emerging industries or leading the kind of lifestyle that others aim to emulate. In contexts of global education and private institutions, their parents may be less supportive of the unknown or unfamiliar lens of creativity and more interested in ensuring a stable career in a staple industry for their children. Even after experiencing new online, remote, and decentralised methods of learning, they may feel more comfortable investing in traditional forms of classroom instruction. Teachers, lecturers, and practitioners operating in tight higher education markets may be increasingly focused on innovation and revitalising curricula to enhance student experiences and secure their own professional pathways. In the context of higher education for Southeast Asia, we call for chapters that question the meaning of creativity and its value across a wide range of empirical contexts. We understand Southeast Asia as an unstable construct that is not tied to defined borders or specific identities, and which includes minority and diaspora communities of Southeast Asia. We interpret higher education very broadly as including post- school, vocationally oriented and college/university learning that is engaged with local, global and transnational flows of knowledge and human capital, for educators and learners. We are seeking, firstly, to understand the role of learning in crafting the future in a world characterised by transformation and, secondly, to challenge the role of academic training and the higher education institution as one of elite status and higher learning. How can universities make their contributions more valuable to and more valued by their communities? How can institutions work with communities, not from above or looking down from a social pinnacle? To what extent is education becoming a form of service provision? If it is a service, then what is its purpose and value? How is value measured? In responding to these and related questions, prospective authors are invited to propose theoretical and empirical papers that: 1 Seeking contributions to Creativity and Higher Education in Southeast Asia • Question the relevance of adopting and adapting imported ideas, ideologies, and pedagogies in international and local education contexts of Southeast Asia. • Address the legacies of education heritages, for example those centred on reproduction and memorisation, as well as cases that analyse tendencies to adhere to universalising but explicitly Western standards that devalue local forms of knowledge production. • Celebrate innovations that foster social change and emerging fields, including ideological and pedagogical approaches that invert traditional socio-economic, gender and racial hierarchies that persist in the face of forms of globalisation and internationalisation. • Explore new pedagogies and practices of participation and collaboration that challenge old norms such as individualised performance and ranking systems in language learning and disciplinary practice that discourage students from peer-working and introduce innovations, plurality of approaches to teaching and learning including creativity in curricula and in relationships between institutions and communities. The focus is on ASEAN Southeast Asia, and we are very keen to receive proposal about Laos, Myanmar and Timor Leste. We invite prospective contributors to submit (co)authors’ names and affiliations, title and 250- 300 word abstract by 31 December 2021. Chapters of approx. 5000 words are due by 1 June 2022. For any questions or to submit a proposal, please reach out to Catherine Earl ([email protected]) and Jonathan J. Felix ([email protected]). 2
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