Mark Peace is Contributing Editor at Wonkhe, and Professor of Innovation in Education at King’s College London.
His educational leadership focuses on empowering students through active, experiential learning – challenging narrow definitions of legitimate knowledge and advocating for inclusive, transformative education. At Manchester Met, he led the ambitious “Rise” programme, reimagining the role of the extra-curricular to foster creativity, belonging, and student-driven innovation. He now works to support King’s College London in its innovating its educational proposition.
As contributing editor at Wonkhe, Mark champions critical utopianism, encouraging the higher education community to reclaim a sense of joy and possibility by unraveling the taken-for-granted assumptions of education. He warmly invites diverse voices to collaborate in this ongoing conversation.
6 pieces
Newest first, since May 2023
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Educating for humans in the lead
Mark Peace posits that our anxiety about the threats of AI to standards risk blinding us to a deeper need to reassert the value of humanness in knowledge work
· Long read
What grade inflation panics miss about the real value of higher education
Mark Peace puts the case that pressure on the graduate premium, in combination with AI, should be causing higher education to look again at the challenge of capturing the full breadth of student outcomes, beyond a single
· Comment
Breaking out of Bergentown – the case for hope in higher education
Tough times can erode the sense of creative possibility that makes higher education joyful. Mark Peace and Debbie McVitty look for reasons for optimism
With Debbie McVitty
· Comment
There are plenty of options for student work-related learning beyond the “gold standard” sandwich year or placement
Mark Peace convenes some fresh thinking on the diversity of learning opportunities that can constitute meaningful work-related experiences
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Learning to make a difference – how to bridge the gap between ideal and delivery in service learning
Nine advocates for service learning reflect on why, despite its intuitive appeal, aligning student gains with social good is so difficult to get right – and some of the ways in which the sector might break new ground
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Deeper pedagogies are key to cracking open the black box of experiential learning
In its scramble to improve employability, the sector risks appropriating experiential learning in ways that leave behind the truly transformative pedagogies, argues Mark Peace