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Symposium: Keeping the Door Open: Learning, Teaching, and Social Justice in Tertiary Education
| Location: | Australia |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2011-07-30 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-05-16 |
| Announcement ID: |
185267 |
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Conference to be held at:
Australian Catholic University, School of Arts and Sciences, Melbourne
Friday 25th November 2011
Social justice has always been a concern of tertiary education, but in recent years government and institutional policy and initiatives have made this concern more formal. For example, across the sector specific measures have been taken to increase access, build pathways and community engagement, make teaching and learning practice more inclusive and to include an explicit commitment to social justice values in graduate attributes.
Educators have been involved in all these aspects and have taken a variety of creative approaches to ‘open the doors of the academy’. In this second interdisciplinary symposium, ACU’s School of Arts and Sciences offer the opportunity to communicate the ways in which social justice is being explored and practiced in tertiary education. We invite scholars and practitioners from all disciplines to discuss their work.
The keynote speaker will be the ACU Institute of Legal Studies Director and human rights law specialist Professor Spencer Zifcak. For more details see:
http://www.acu.edu.au/about_acu/faculties_schools_institutes/institutes/institute_of_legal_studies/staff/staff_directory/spencer_zifcak/
Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Social movements, past and present
• Community engagement and outreach
• Learning from history
• Social justice and the creative arts
• Public policy, law, and social justice
• Political economy of global higher education
• International student issues
• Teaching Indigenous issues
• The role of universities in the promotion of social justice
• Ethics, spirituality, and learning
• Education partnerships with the developing world
• Social justice and the health sciences
• Training teachers
• Confronting climate change
• Supporting diversity and inclusive practice
• Critical pedagogy and current social justice activism
• Religious institutions and social justice education
• Business ethics in the classroom and in practice
Case studies from academics’ own research are also welcomed and encouraged, as are panel and group presentations. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted to Social.JusticeSymposium@acu.edu.au by 30 July 2011. Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers are strongly encouraged to send abstracts. It is expected that there will be a conference publication.
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