Emancipatory Human Rights and the University by Felisa Tibbit... - 9781032148557

Emancipatory Human Rights and the UniversityPromoting Social Justice in Higher Education\nAuthor(s): Felisa Tibbitts, Andr Keet\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032148557, 978-1032148557\nSynopsis\nThis volume explores the application of human rights to higher education through a critical lens. Combining theoretical and applied perspectives, it asks what a human rights framework grounded in liberation and justice can offer to ways of working and teaching practices in higher education.\n\nHuman rights, in this edited compilation, call for continuous critical engagements around the higher education transformation project. The book recognizes human rights simultaneously as law, values, and emancipatory vision. It showcases global north and global south perspectives and encourages a dialogue between the human rights approach and other approaches to higher education transformation, such as decolonialization, anti-racn