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Higher Education and Social Justice

The Transformative Potential of University Teaching and the Power of Educational Paradox

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Authors:
  1. Leonie Rowan

    1. School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia

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  • Analyses how academics can engage with 'relationship-centred education'

  • Investigates the factors and aspects crucial to inclusive student-centred environments

  • Gives voice to university teachers and details the struggles of working in this unique environment

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The Transformative Potential of Higher Education: Engaging with Educational Philosophy to Labour for Justice and Freedom

    • Leonie Rowan
    Pages 1-26

  3. Influences on Academic Decision-Making in University Teaching: Perspectives from Policy, Literature, and Student-Centred Research

    • Leonie Rowan
    Pages 27-66

  4. Purposeful Decision Making for Relationship-Centred Education: Productive Paradox in University Teaching

    • Leonie Rowan
    Pages 67-95

  5. Purposeful Decision Making for Relationship-Centred Education: Speech and Silence in University Classrooms

    • Leonie Rowan
    Pages 97-124

  6. University Teaching as Situated Work: Imagining, Experimenting, and Working for Change

    • Leonie Rowan
    Pages 125-137

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 139-141
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About this book

This book demonstrates how the pedagogical decision making of university academics can be shaped by engagement with an educational philosophy known as “relationship-centred education”. Beginning with critical analysis of concepts such as student engagement, student satisfaction, and student-centred learning, the author goes on to investigate how literature relating to social justice challenges educators to consider these terms in particular ways. From this basis, the book explores the factors featuring in inclusive, respectful, diverse and student-centred environments. In analysing these factors, the author illuminates the perspectives of university teachers who struggle with the unique challenges of working in the academy; including an increasingly broad set of employment demands and narrower criteria for determining ‘impact’, all while retaining focus on the transformative potential of higher education. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of transformative learning, as well as social justice within higher education.

Reviews

“Rowan’s research and teaching are interconnected and built on more than two decades of experience in higher education. The present work, based on her 10 years’ research, has provided a critical analysis of the transformative power of higher education. … Rowan’s own educational experiences are the very indication of social justice in higher education, and therefore provide much support for this substantial work.” (Yanli Jia and Biyu Zeng, Higher Education, Vol. 81, 2021)

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia

    Leonie Rowan

About the author

Leonie Rowan is Associate Professor in the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University, Australia. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Higher Education and Social Justice

  • Book Subtitle: The Transformative Potential of University Teaching and the Power of Educational Paradox

  • Authors: Leonie Rowan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05246-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05245-4Published: 15 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05246-1Published: 24 December 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 141

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Higher Education, Educational Philosophy, Learning & Instruction

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