Doing justice to social justice in South African higher education

dc.contributor.authorTjabane, Masebala
dc.contributor.authorPillay, Venitha
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-16T11:55:51Z
dc.date.available2012-03-16T11:55:51Z
dc.date.issued2011-06
dc.description.abstractThis paper attempts to develop a conceptualisation of social justice in higher education based on a close reading of the current literature in the field. An important assumption we make is that higher education is a valuable mechanism for social justice. We set the literature against policy documents that detail South African aspirations with regard to the achievement of social justice goals. Our aim is to stimulate debate on and engagement with issues of social justice in the local and global context that continues to manifest increasing socio-economic injustices. We argue that human liberation from global social injustice is intertwined at the individual and collective level and that it requires a collective human agency inherent in the radical tradition of social justice, which exhibits impressive credentials for facilitating the achievement of social justice.en_US
dc.description.librariangv2012en
dc.description.urihttp://journals.sabinet.co.za/ej/ejour_persed.htmlen_US
dc.identifier.citationTjabane, M & Pillay, V 2011, 'Doing justice to social justice in South African higher education', Perspectives in Education, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 10-18.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0081-2463
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/18460
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFaculty of Education, University of the Free Stateen_US
dc.rightsFaculty of Education, University of the Free Stateen_US
dc.subjectSouth African higher educationen_US
dc.subject.lcshEducation, Higheren
dc.subject.lcshSocial justiceen
dc.titleDoing justice to social justice in South African higher educationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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