Higher Education, Pedagogy and Social Justice: Politics and Practice [Paperback]

This book explores how the concepts of social justice, diversity, equity and inclusion can be understood within the context of higher education. While terms such as these are often in common use in universities, they are not always used with clarity and precision. The editors and contributors offer a serious and detailed examination of pressing contemporary concerns around social justice across politics, practice and pedagogy in order to encourage hard thinking and practical agenda setting for social-justice oriented research, teaching and community engagement. Drawing upon new theoretical work, research projects and innovative university teaching, this book offers both useful theoretical insights and practical possibilities for action. This collective and collaborative volume will be of interest and value to all those interested in promoting social justice, in particular how it can be promoted within the university setting. 
Chapter 1. Introduction: Social justice talk and social justice practice in the contemporary university; Susan Goodwin and Helen Proctor.- SECTION I. Politics and perspectives.- Chapter 2. Thoughts on social justice and universities; Raewyn Connell.- Chapter 3. On settler notions of social justice: The importance of disrupting and displacing colonising narratives; Sheelagh Daniels-Mayes, Valerie Harwood and Nyssa Murray.- Chapter 4. Making worlds, making justice and the responsibility to live justly on stolen land; Debra Hayes.- Chapter 5. Social justice politics: Care as democracy and resistance; Donna Baines.- Chapter 6. Pursuing a social justice agenda for early childhood education and care: Interrogating marketisation hegemony in the academy; Marianne Fenech.- Chapter 7. Aboriginal voices: Social justice and transforming aboriginal education; Kevin Lowe and Cathie Burgess.- SECTION II. Practices and pedagogies.- Chapter 8. When 'participation' is not enough: Social justice practices in mental health and psychiatric hegemlo