- Title
- Macro Changes and the Implications for equality and Social and Gender Justice in Higher Education
- Creator
- David, Miriam E.; Burke, Penny Jane; Moreau, Marie-Pierre
- Relation
- The Oxford Handbook of Higher Education Systems and University Management p. 236-254
- Relation
- Oxford Handbooks
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198822905.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- In this chapter we address how the changing context and transformations of higher education (HE) have implications for equality and social and gender justice. We write as three differently positioned women in HE who, at the same time, share a feminist perspective on the influences of neo-liberal and conservative politics on our lives and those of others in HE. We have interconnected networks to, and in, the field of gender and education, but clearly we also have different generational approaches. For instance, Miriam was a founder of the Gender and Education Association (GEA) in the United Kingdom, as part of the expanding forms of HE and its influences on women's involvement as students, educators, and teachers. Both Penny-Jane and Marie-Pierre came from different positions and locations to be involved in the GEA in the United Kingdom and internationally. Yet we are all what are called, in the UK census, white Others. We are all indeed white but have complex and diverse origins and involvements in the United Kingdom, which also complicate our self-identification in relation to being women, or our gender, sexuality, and social class. We are both very privileged in terms of our educational involvements and achievements and yet remain very marginal to the main power relations within HE. Indeed, this is precisely what we want to write about in this chapter.
- Subject
- higher education; equality; social justice; gender justice
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1442319
- Identifier
- uon:41653
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780198822905
- Language
- eng
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