Doing justice to social justice in South African higher education

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Date
2011
Authors
Tjabane, Masebala
Pillay, Venitha
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Faculty of Education, University of the Free State
Abstract
This 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.
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Social justice in higher education, Social justice in South Africa, Social justice in a post apartheid in Sout Africa, Socio-economic injustices
Citation
Tjabane, M., & Pillay, V. (2011). Doing justice to social justice in South African higher education. Faculty of Education, University of the Free State.