Equity in Higher Education: Time for Social Justice Praxis [Hardcover]

In a global context of growing inequality and socio-environmental crises,?Equity in Higher Education?considers the issues and challenges for progressing an equity agenda.

Equity in Higher Education: Time for Social Justice Praxis offers an incisive critique of the longstanding inequalities in contemporary higher education and how race, gender, social class and age continue to shape access and participation in socially unjust ways. In addition  and this is what makes this book so compelling and exciting  the deployment of a multidimensional social justice framework for both analysis and action urges us to rethink what is meant by equity. Drawing on a wealth of theoretical and empirical work, this timely and insightful book acknowledges the messiness and necessity of working in collaborative ways; its grounding in a praxis for change makes it a must-read for policymakers, academics and educators.
Carol A. Taylor, Professor of Higher Education and Gender, University of Bath, UK

If you work in higher education, or if your policy work influences its directions, this profound book will compel you to reconsider and alter what you do. It puts conventional approaches to equity in higher education under pressure highlighting their deep, and sometimes subtlety seductive, structural flaws. In the spirit of positive critique, it also offers fresh and highly persuasive considerations for praxis. Enlivened by strong ethical sensibilities it provides the best of practical theory and of thought-full practice.
Jane Kenway, Emeritus Professor, Monash University, Australia

What is the role of the university? This is a crucial and recurrent question in the global histories and geographies of higher education, but it is also at the heart of this important and timely book. In flagging up the urgenclC“