Jan McArthur is Senior Lecturer in Education and Social Justice at Lancaster University, UK. She has previously taught at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and Monash University, Australia. Paul Ashwin is Professor of Higher Education at Lancaster University, UK.
This book is unashamedly passionate in its stance that higher education should foreground social justice as a practice, a focus of research, a methodology, and a pedagogy. The rich reflections on the responsibility universities, academics and students bear to challenge society’s unjust status quo comes with some clear directions on how to do so. * Sioux McKenna, Director of Postgraduate Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa * In this cutting-edge and highly readable book - expertly edited and introduced by Jan McArthur and Paul Ashwin - leading female scholars from around the world reflect on how research into higher education can contribute to the advancement of social justice within diverse institutional and social settings. It should be read by all those with an interest in the potential of higher education for creating a fairer and more equal world. * Jon Nixon, Visiting Professor, Middlesex University, United Kingdom, and Honorary Professor, Education University of Hong Kong, China *