The perception of education has “historically been seen as enriching one’s Self through the encounter with an Other”, and this sets the scene for the collection of essays published in Knowledge Production in Higher Education Between Europe and the Middle East (Manchester University Press, 2023), edited by Michelle Pace and Jan Claudius Völkel. Higher education provides the space and the methods for various types of learning, woven tightly into the political and shedding light on the historical processes of colonialism in a postcolonial era. The book focuses on Europe and the Middle East and North Africa, bringing a contrasting view of how “academics have deliberated their immensely politicised nature of institutions of higher education and their practices – be these, […]
