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Socially Just Pedagogies, Capabilities and Quality in Higher Education

Global Perspectives

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Overview

  • Focuses on innovative examples of pedagogic practice that confront inequality in higher education
  • Provides rich analysis of diverse higher education contexts from a variety of countries
  • Situates pedagogic practice within larger debates about the role of higher education in democratic societies

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Introducing

  2. Conceptualizing and Practising

  3. Synthesizing

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About this book

This book explores the idea that teaching and learning – pedagogy – at universities is a crucial space for students’ formation as ethical graduates, equipped with knowledge, skills and values to contribute to more equal societies. We know that universities across the globe do not stand apart from social and educational inequalities at multiple levels; they have the potential to reproduce or reduce social inequalities and therefore towards transformative ends. This book suggests how this could be achieved both via policy and practice around the globe

Reviews

“At a time when proving their ‘quality’ has become the overriding concern for higher education institutions around the world, Melanie Walker and Merridy Wilson–Strydom invite us to appreciate the under-recognised linkages between quality education and the pursuit of greater social justice in and through higher education. [This book] demonstrate[s] the possibilities and various manifestations of socially just pedagogies, grounding their argument in new theorising, empirical observations, or both. Highlighting the capabilities approach as an overall conceptual and ethical framework by which to evaluate both policy and practice, the book is a refreshing and much welcome addition to the literature on critical pedagogies in higher education.” (Carolin Kreber, Professor of Higher Education, The University of Edinburgh, UK, and Dean, School of Professional Studies, Cape Breton University)

“This book makes a compelling case for the human development perspective, and how this can be harnessed for teaching and learning for social justice. It provides well-reasoned theoretical perspectives, insightful research based analyses, and exciting examples of academics truly teaching from a strong values base. It combines an international gaze with fine-grained, highly contextualised reflections on how to teach differently.” (Professor Brenda Leibowitz, University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Research on Higher Education and Development, University of the Free State , Bloemfontein, South Africa

    Melanie Walker

  • Centre for Research on Higher Education and Development, University of the Free State , Blomfontein, South Africa

    Merridy Wilson-Strydom

About the editors

Melanie Walker is the South African Research Chair of Higher Education and Human Development at the University of the Free State, South Africa.  She is Vice-President of the Human Development and Capability Association and has published widely in the field of higher education, inequality and social change, with particular attention to well-being freedoms, agency for access, participation and success in higher education.


Merridy Wilson Strydom is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Higher Education and Development (CRHED) at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Her work is focused on higher education and social justice, with a particular emphasis on access and equity at the undergraduate level, explored using mixed methodologies, including fine-grained student life narratives and participatory visual research. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Socially Just Pedagogies, Capabilities and Quality in Higher Education

  • Book Subtitle: Global Perspectives

  • Editors: Melanie Walker, Merridy Wilson-Strydom

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55786-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55785-8Published: 19 December 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55786-5Published: 05 December 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2946-2711

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-272X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 251

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Higher Education, Democracy, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education

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