Book review: Eyre, J. (2025) Learning Development in higher education: crisis, practice, and power in the 21st century university. Singapore: Springer.

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https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi38.1819

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learning development, crisis, power, Deleuze, post-structuralism

Author Biography

Sunny Dhillon, Lincoln Bishop University

Sunny Dhillon is a senior lecturer in the Education Studies and Theology, Ethics and Society departments at Lincoln Bishop University. His current research projects include the following: critically exploring education as ontotheological principle; the professional identity of teachers through a Jungian lens; student engagement from the perspective of academics in the social sciences; and the student-academic power dynamic via game theory.

References

Allen, A. (2017) The cynical educator. Leicester: MayFly Books.

Eyre, J. (2020) The crisis of practice: Deleuze and the idea of learning development in UK higher education. Unpublished PhD thesis. University College London. Available at: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10102621 (Accessed: 28 November 2025).

Kahneman, D. (2011) Thinking, fast and slow. London: Penguin.

Nietzsche, F.W. (1968) The will to power. Translated from the German by W. Kaufmann and R.J. Hollingdale. New York: Vintage Books.

Rondeau, C. (2024) Who stole quality?: a university campus tale. Milton Keynes: Maple Publishers.

Schön, D. (1983) The reflective practitioner: how professionals think in action. New York: Basic Books.

Syska, A. and Buckley, C. (2023) ‘Writing as liberatory practice: unlocking knowledge to locate an academic field’, Teaching in Higher Education, 28(2), pp.439–454. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2022.2114337

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11-12-2025

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Dhillon, S. (2025). Book review: Eyre, J. (2025) Learning Development in higher education: crisis, practice, and power in the 21st century university. Singapore: Springer. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, (38). https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi38.1819

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No. 38 (2025)

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