ABSTRACT
This book represents both a profound challenge and a potential source of great inspiration for university faculty. It respects the distinctive ways of thinking and practicing represented by academic disciplines and what students can achieve through rich engagement with these practices. More context-transcendent outcomes – such as critical thinking or ethical awareness – are seen as developing through deep engagement with the disciplines. In offering an ambitious account of potential graduate outcomes – encompassing civic responsibility, lifelong learning and sophisticated accounts of employability – it sets out a challenging vision of what higher education at its best can have to offer. Students are seen as developing not just knowledge and skills but rich conceptual frameworks and a capacity to reason within and beyond the particular modes of thinking of their disciplines.
