Professor Chris Duke

Visiting Professor (School of Education)

Biography

Chris Duke is an Anglo-Australian, born in London, who studied at Cambridge University (BA hons, MA, CertEd) and King’s College London (PhD) as a historian and sociologist. He qualified in Education, History and Sociology, he has since in Britain, Australia and New Zealand bee a n Professor of Adult and Continuing Education, later in Lifelong Learning, and University President of UWS Nepean: in turn at Woolwich Polytechnic now the University of Greenwich 1961-66; the University of Leeds 1966-69; the Australian National University 1969-85; the University of Warwick 1985-96; University of Western Sydney 1996-2000; University of Auckland 2000-2002; RMIT University Melbourne 2002-2007. His main experience is in Asia and Europe, with shorter periods in other world regions. He was Director HE for the UK national adult education organisation NIACE. He is an Honorary Life Member of ASPBAE and ICAE. His final salaried position was Director and Professor of Lifelong Learning and Community and Regional Partnership RMIT. He is currently Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow and RMIT University, and he is active in civil society organisations and periodic consultancy.

With eight grandchildren in Australia and one in Thailand he divides his time between these countries, with homes in France and England. Comparing life, culture and values in different countries is good lifelong learning. French village life teaches much about indigenous knowledge and wisdom. Each country shows how differently and fast things change, and how difficult governments find it to keep up. He grew up in rural England among farm and gypsy communities, with German prisoners-of-war as adult friends, so learned multiculturalism early. He has also been a keen and traditional gardener from childhood. At the University of Leeds he worked with South Asian and Caribbean immigrants of the ‘Windrush generation’ in action research, applied social science doing as well as studying applied social science, and published with the Institute for Race Relations.

He has always worked for civil society-based democracy in local and global non-governmental organisations (NGOs or CSOs), and has held honorary leadership positions in UK and Australian as well as regional and international non-governmental or civil society organisations including ICAE (1978-85) and ASPBAE (1972-85).

Research interests

He is currently Secretary-General of the global network PIMA (PASCAL International Member Association) and edits its Bulletin, which has recently been exploring experiences of indigenous communities and learning. This encourages new thinking about education, development and social progress. He is concerned for social justice and equity; about how democracy is evolving in this new century; and by the good and bad ways that new media can contribute.

He as worked from the early 1970s in a consultative capacity for intergovernmental agencies, especially UNESCO and UIL, the OECD, and the European Commission, and for universities and national governments in many countries. His main interests have been in the role of adult, non-formal and higher/tertiary education in development, local, regional and national, including access opportunities, civil society empowerment, and local community action. He played lead roles in projects over several years on universities and regional engagement for OECD and PASCAL, of which I was founding CEO and Secretary-General from 2002.

He is deeply committed to international collaboration, inter-community understanding, participatory and democratic action research, equity, social justice and civil society. He wishes to see good local and global government that supports social eco-sustainability; and really useful university systems that engage with the needs and problems of communities, societies and countries. He writes and advises often on lifelong learning and on these related matters.

Publications

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Number of items: 52.

2019

Duke, C. (2019) How central is the “principal mission” of the university today? In: Archer, W. and Schuetze, H. G. (eds.) Preparing Students for Life and Work. Brill: Leiden, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9789004393066 (doi: 10.1163/9789004393073_001)

Duke, C. and Hinzen, H. (2019) Adult Learning and Education: Active global citizens for sustainable development - a political, professional and personal account. CR&DALL Working Paper CR&DALL WP401/2019. Documentation. CR&DALL, Glasgow.

2018

Duke, C. (2018) Achieving LLL with the Sustainable Development Goals: what is needed to get things done? Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 58(3), pp. 503-520.

Duke, C. (Ed.) (2018) Adult Education: International Perspectives from China. Series: Routledge library editions: adult education. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138343825

Duke, C. (Ed.) (2018) Combatting Poverty Through Adult Education: National Development Strategies. Series: Routledge library editions: adult education. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138348523

Duke, C. (Ed.) (2018) Grassroots Approaches to Combatting Poverty Through Adult Education. Series: Routledge library editions: adult education. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138349568

Duke, C. (2018) Good at What? Good for What? Higher Education Values in an Age of Discontinuity. In: Fifth International Conference on Adult Education: Education for Values - Continuity and Context, Iasi, Romania, and Chisinau, Moldova, 25-28 Apr 2018, pp. 123-131.

2017

Duke, C. and Hinzen, H. (2017) Lifelong Learning Strategy 2017-2020. Documentation. Government of FYROM, Skopje.

Duke, C. (2017) Crossing higher education borders: academic leadership in the learning university. In: Su, F. and Wood, M. (eds.) Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Academic Leadership in Higher Education. Series: Perspectives on leadership in higher education. Bloomsbury: London. ISBN 9781474223034

2016

National Institute for Lifelong Education, and UIL, (2016) Synthesis report on the state of community learning centres in six Asian countries: Bangladesh, Indonesia, Mongolia, Republic of Korea, Thailand and Viet Nam. Documentation. NILE and UIL, Hamburg.

2015

Cheng, M., Kitagawa, F., Osborne, M. and Duke, C. (2015) Internationalisation as University Business Model Innovation: A Case Study of the University of Nottingham. In: CHER 2015: 28th Annual conference of Consortium of Higher Education Researcher, Lisbon, Portugal, 7-9 Sept 2015,

Duke, C. (2015) Development: global-local – a critical view. In: Gartenschlaeger, U. and Hirsch, E. (eds.) Adult Education in an Interconnected World: Cooperation in Lifelong Learning for Sustainable Development. Series: International perspectives in adult education. DVV International: Bonn, pp. 238-245. ISBN 9783942755238

Duke, C. (2015) Lost soul or new dawn? Lifelong learning lessons and prospects from East Asia. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 21(1), pp. 72-88. (doi: 10.7227/JACE.21.1.6)

Duke, C. (2015) Queensland’s PURE tortoise: why taking longer can be better. In: Carlot, C., Filloque, J.-M., Osborne, M. and Welsh, P. (eds.) The Role of Higher Education in Regional and Community Development and in the Time of Economic Crisis. NIACE: Leicester, pp. 239-259. ISBN 9781862018907

2014

Osborne, M. , Duke, C., Kitigawa, F. and Cheng, M. (2014) The internationalisation strategy of the University of Nottingham (UK) and the establishment of campuses in Asia. In: Study on Innovation in Higher Education: Annexes. Publications Office of the European Union: Luxembourg, pp. 2-22. ISBN 9789279350825

Duke, C. and Hinzen, H. (Eds.) (2014) At the Sunset of MDG and EFA: Lifelong Learning, National Development and the Future. DVV International: Vientiane.

Duke, C. (2014) Lifelong learning beyond Europe: migration to Asia or another transformation? In: Hinzen, H. and Knoll, J.H. (eds.) Lifelong Learning and Governance: From Programming to Action-Selected Experiences from Asia and Europe. DVV International: Vientiane, pp. 139-154.

2013

Duke, C. (Ed.) (2013) Cities Learning Together: Local communities in the Sustainable and Healthy Learning City. EC RMIT: Melbourne.

Duke, C., Osborne, M. and Wilson, B. (2013) A New Imperative: Regions and Higher Education in Difficult Times. Series: Universities and lifelong learning. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719088308

2012

Duke, C. (2012) Lifelong learning and the autumn of Europeanization in Asia. International Journal of Continuing Engineering, Education and Life-Long Learning, 4(2), pp. 17-34.

Duke, C. (2012) Networking and partnerships: another road to lifelong learning. In: Aspin, D. N., Chapman, J., Evans, K. and Bagnall, R. (eds.) Second International Handbook of Lifelong Learning. Springer: Dordrecht, pp. 829-843. ISBN 9789400723597 (doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-2360-3_50)

2011

Duke, C. (2011) The impact debate: hazards of discourse in the UK. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 17(1), pp. 115-129. (doi: 10.7227/JACE.17.1.9)

2010

Duke, C. (2010) Learning cities and regions. In: Peterson, P., Baker, E. and McGraw, B. (eds.) International Encyclopaedia of Education. Elsevier, pp. 144-149. ISBN 9780080410463 (doi: 10.1016/B978-0-08-044894-7.00032-4)

2009

Duke, C. (2009) Please, No More 'Business as Usual': What the harsh new world means for adult and higher education. Adult Education and Development, 72, pp. 171-184.

Duke, C. (2009) Trapped in a local history: why did the extramural fail to engage in the era of angagement? In: Cunningham, P. (ed.) Beyond the Lecture Hall: Universities and community engagement from the middle ages to the present day. University of Cambridge: Cambridge, pp. 169-187. ISBN 9780956086129

Duke, C. and Hinzen, H. (2009) Background note: a new effort for new times - steps in the long march to Belem. Adult Education and Development, 73, pp. 31-52.

Duke, C. and Hinzen, H. (2009) The role of NGOs in adult education and capacity-building for development: the case of DVV International. In: Jarvis, P. (ed.) The Routledge International Handbook of Lifelong Learning. Routledge, pp. 332-346. ISBN 978-0-415-58165-3

2008

Duke, C. and Hinzen, H. (Eds.) (2008) Knowing More, Doing Better. Challenges for CONFINTEA VI, from Monitoring EFA in Non-Formal Youth and Adult Education. Series: International Perspectives in Education. DVV Internat.. ISBN 9783885137900

Duke, C. (2008) Lifelong Learning, Asia and 'the South'. KEDI Journal of Educational Policy,

Duke, C. (2008) Regionalisation and higher education. Journal of Access Policy and Practice, 5(2), pp. 99-115.

Duke, C. (2008) University engagement: avoidable confusion and inescapable contradiction. Higher Education Management and Policy, 20(2), pp. 63-73.

Duke, C., Hasan, A., Cappon, P., Meissner, W., Metcalf, H. and Thornhill, D. (2008) OECD Reviews of Education, Croatia. Technical Report. OECD, Paris, France.

Duke, C. and Hinzen, H. (2008) Introduction and recommendations: the right to education in the context of migration and integration. International Perspectives in Adult Education, 59, pp. 10-25.

Duke, C. and Hinzen, H. (2008) What can we learn for CONFINTEA? Adult Education and Development, 73, pp. 15-30.

Duke, C. (2008) Reformulating Education for All (EFA) Policy in a Framework of Lifelong Learning. Documentation. ACCU, Tokyo.

2007

Duke, C., Goddard, J., Puukka, J., Dubarle, P. and Benneworth, P. (2007) Higher Education and Regions: Globally Competitive, Locally Engaged. Documentation. OECD, Paris.

2006

Duke, C., Doyle, L. and Wilson, B. (Eds.) (2006) Making Knowledge Work: Sustaining Learning Communities and Regions. NIACE: Leicester. ISBN 9781862012462

Field, J. and Osborne, M. (2006) Researching social capital in Europe: towards a toolkit for measurement. In: Duke, C., Doyle, L. and Wilson, B. (eds.) Making Knowledge Work: Sustaining Learning Communities and Regions. NIACE: Leicester, pp. 54-66. ISBN 9781862012462

2005

Duke, C. (Ed.) (2005) The Tertiary Moment: What Road to Inclusive Higher Education? NIACE: Leicester. ISBN 9781862012356

Duke, C., Osborne, M. and Wilson, B. (2005) Rebalancing the Social and Economic: Learning Partnership and Place. National Institute of Adult Continuing Education: Leicester. ISBN 9781862012707

Duke, C. (2005) Values, discourse and politics – an Australian comparative perspective. In: Tapper, T. and Palfreyman, D. (eds.) Understanding Mass Higher Education: Comparative Perspectives on Access. RoutledgeFalmer: London, pp. 6-27. ISBN 9780415354912

Duke, C. and Jones, B. (2005) South African Universities, New Developments and the Adult Population. Documentation. Action on Access, Bradford.

2004

Duke, C. (2004) Adult education and poverty reduction – a global priority. Adult Education and Development, 72, pp. 171-184.

Duke, C. (2004) Compacts and access: lifeblood or teflon? Journal of Access Policy and Practice, 1(1), pp. 32-53.

Duke, C. (2004) Comparison to cooperation – designing partnership and collaborative diversity for Adult Education in the ‘New Europe’. Documentation. DVV, Bonn.

Duke, C. (2004) Organisation behaviour, research and access. In: Osborne, M., Gallacher, J. and Crossan, B. (eds.) Researching Widening Access to Lifelong Learning: Issues and Approaches in International Research. RoutledgeFalmer: London, pp. 194-206. ISBN 9780415322362

2003

Duke, C. (2003) Changing identity in an ambiguous environment: a work in progress report. Higher Education Management and Policy, 15(3), pp. 51-67. (doi: 10.1787/hemp-v15-art23-en)

Duke, C. (2003) The Year of the Sheep – international cooperation for adult education. Adult Education and Development, 60, pp. 27-46.

2002

Duke, C. (2002) Links between further and higher education: the case of New Zealand. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 8(1), pp. 104-119. (doi: 10.7227/JACE.8.1.8)

Duke, C. (2002) Managing the Learning University. Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press: Buckingham. ISBN 9780335207664

1999

Bourgeois, E., Duke, C., Guyot, J.-L. and Merrill, B. (1999) The Adult University. Open University Press: Buckingham. ISBN 9780335199082

1992

Duke, C. (1992) The Learning University: Towards a New Paradigm? Open University Press: Buckingham. ISBN 9780335156542

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