Sustainable Higher Education: Centering Equity-Minded Practices
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "Higher Education".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 20238
Special Issue Editors
Interests: working with and in diverse organizations; community-based research; issues concerning preparing culturally responsive leaders in higher education
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The murder of George Floyd in May of 2020 led to a call for racial reckoning and social justice well beyond US borders, including in Australia, France, Brazil, Germany, Britain and elsewhere. Mr. Floyd’s final words, “I cannot breathe”, became a rallying cry for protests around the world. Amidst the cries for social justice, the world grappled with a global pandemic which illuminated already existing gaps in health care, employment, and educational opportunities, disproportionately impacting communities of color negatively. As calls for social justice continued to amplify, leaders in Higher Education so too were placed under increased scrutiny to address long standing issues including the lack of diversity in faculty hiring and retention, inequitable support and funding for Black, Indigenous and other ethnic study programs, and campus policing practices, to name just a few. As we begin 2022, Institutions of Higher Education (IHE) are at an inflection point regarding how such issues are addressed and corrected in a manner that is sustainable and will have a longstanding impact. Increased access to higher education has resulted in dramatic increases in the demographic diversity of those who attend and work in IHEs globally, i.e., race, ethnicity, gender, religion, language, sexual orientation, age, and language. However, it has only been recently that IHEs have begun to actively grapple with what it means to actually educate, support and serve diverse campus constituents.
This Special Issue examines how Institutions of Higher Education are beginning to address longstanding concerns of equity and social justice. The manuscripts in this Special Issue will be within the scope of the higher education context globally to consider what Crawley (2017) refers to as otherwise possibilities, a term that underscores alternative strategies or ways of knowing (p. 6-7); it is a word that names plurality as its core, it indicates the ongoingness of possibility, of things existing other than what is given (p. 24). This Special Issue seeks to address what are otherwise possibilities or how we extend equity and centre the margins, i.e., create sustainable change for social justice in higher education.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Culturally relevant pedagogy and curriculum reform and innovations;
- Culturally relevant educational leadership development;
- Critical research methodologies and innovation;
- Education and institutional policy reform;
- Professional development of the higher education workforce; and
- University–community partnerships.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Doris L. Watson
Dr. Iesha Jackson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- higher education
- equity
- culturally relevant practice
- educational policy
- innovations
- social justice
- critical research methodology
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