Higher Education and Social Justice

Leonie Rowan is Associate Professor in the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University, Australia.

• 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.

“Rowan’s research and teaching are interconnected and built on more than two decades of experience in higher education. The present work, based on her 10 years’ research, has provided a critical analysis of the transformative power of higher education. … Rowan’s own educational experiences are the very indication of social justice in higher education, and therefore provide much support for this substantial work.” (Yanli Jia and Biyu Zeng, Higher Education, Vol. 81, 2021)