ABSTRACT

Higher education policies increasingly favour academic mobility, exchange agreements, internationalisation of staff and students, and truly global institutional profiles and strategies. In recognising the pedetic potential of students as well as the deployment of mobile academic programmes, culture-on-the-move can be useful in unfixing the old ways of higher education that previously appeared unmovable. Unfixing the university is the major challenge in our time in order to facilitate transformative and positive higher education futures. Ontology of motion and travel is inscribed into knowledge and our knowing efforts, when such practices extend beyond lecture theatres and course syllabi and become woven into, and provides life to the architecture of buildings, city design and layout, social norms and moral codes, and social and welfare work. Thus, the university community must be reconfigured in order to affect pedetic forces to re-shape or unfix its standard rigidity.