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The demise of the university is starting to sound repetitious and banal. A digital generation has its own ideas about learning and learning practices. According to this short intro we don't need experts, we have the internet. I'm skeptical and becoming wary.

Prof. David Levy of the Information School of the University of Washington delivers his keynote address, "Head, Heart, and Hand: Cultivating the Contemplative in Higher Education" at the April 2009 conference of the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education at Amherst College.

In this paper we develop a notion of public pedagogy that deviates from the one espoused by Giroux and his focus on postmodernism and popular culture. Our theoretical framework is based on young peoples engagements with media texts, their involvement with youth arts projects and the ways in which community members read youth arts projects and the artefacts they produce.