Extract: Nation, Memory, Myth by Steve Vizard
Posted on 11 Jun 2025
How does myth generate meaning for a nation and its citizens? How does a national myth transform into symbolic performances of cultural memory and kinship?
Simon Marginson
Simon Marginson is Professor of International Higher Education at the UCL Institute of Education at University College London in the UK. He is Director of the ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), and Joint Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education. From 2006-2013 he was Professor of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. He works primarily on higher education and globalization, and higher education and social inequality. Hie most recent book is The Dream Is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr’s California Idea of Higher Rducation (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2016).
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Higher Education and the Common Good
Simon Marginson
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The Dawkins Revolution
Gwilym Croucher, Simon Marginson, Andrew Norton, and Julie Wells
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Education, Science and Public Policy
Simon Marginson and Richard James
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