Emancipatory Human Rights and the University (eBook, ePUB)

Promoting Social Justice in Higher Education
Redaktion: Tibbitts, Felisa; Keet, André

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the application of human rights to higher education through a critical lens. Combining theoretical and applied perspectives, it asks what a human rights framework grounded in liberation and justice can offer to ways of working and teaching practices in higher education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000935042
• Artikelnr.: 68368966

Autorenporträt

Felisa Tibbitts is UNESCO Chair of Human Rights in Higher Education and Carla Atzema-Looman Chair in Human Rights Education in the Human Rights Centre (SIM) at Utrecht University (Netherlands). She is also Visiting Professor at Nelson Mandela University and Adjunct Assistant Professor in Political Science at Columbia University. Her research and policy interests include peace, human rights, and global citizenship education; curriculum policy and reform; critical pedagogy; and human rights and higher education transformation. André Keet holds the Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation at Nelson Mandela University and is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Engagement and Transformation at the same university. He is a former Visiting Professor at the Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality, Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University, UK, and the 2018 Marsha Lilien Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights at the University of Connecticut. He publishes on human rights, higher education transformation, and critical university studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Emancipatory Human Rights and the University Part 1: Theory
1. What Do Human Rights Have to Do With It? Links Between the University
and the Human Rights Regime 2. Critique and Disputations: Human Rights,
Africanisation, Decolonisation, and the Project of Decentred Critical
University Studies 3. Epistemic Violence and Human Rights in the American
Academy 4. Decolonial Human Rights Education in the University Sector:
Critical Possibilities Part 2: Looking Inside the University 5. Centering
the Humanity of Student Activists: Pedagogy as Resistance to Neoliberalism
in U.S. Higher Education 6. Universities as Sites of Protection: Insights
from the Global South on Gender-Based Violence 7. A Feminist Lens on Gender
Equality in High-Rank Research Positions at the National Autonomous
University of Mexico 8. Human Rights Curriculum Programming in South
African Universities Part 3: Looking Outside the University 9. Emancipatory
Scholarship and Emancipatory Human Rights: The Transition Township Project
- Lessons for University and Community Partnerships 10. Critical
Transformative Migration Studies and Higher Education in Emergencies (HEiE)
11. Bringing Human Rights into the Heart of Psychology and Social Work
Education 12. Human Rights in U.S. Professional Education: Identifying and
Overcoming Challenges Conclusion: Contestations, Synergies and Some Ways
Forward