Higher Education and Social Justice The Transformative Potential of University Teaching and the Power of Educational Paradox /

• Main Author: Rowan, Leonie (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Teaching.; Higher education.; Education-Philosophy.; Learning.; Instruction.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Higher Education.; Educational Philosophy.; Learning & Instruction.

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 studen...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. The transformative potential of higher education: engaging with educational philosophy to labour for justice and freedom
• Chapter 2. Influences on academic decision-making in university teaching: perspectives from policy, literature, and student-centred research
• Chapter 3. Purposeful decision-making for relationship-centred education: productive paradox in university teaching
• Chapter 4. Purposeful decision-making for relationship-centred education: engaging with speech and with silence in university classrooms
• Chapter 5. University teaching as situated work: imagining, experimenting, and working for change.