Emerging social justice frameworks within higher education
Choice Makhetha
This Keynote contribution focuses on experiential learning and social justice within the Higher Education system in South Africa. It goes deeper into the reflections and lessons from the complicated journeys of student activists in the #Feesmustfall Movement, Anti-GBV Movement and the work of activists in different spaces. I share episodes of wonderful experiential learning journeys of true transformation and emergence of social injustice.
I invite conference participants to share the journey with us, as we share stories, reflections and lessons. It is important for conference participants to make an effort to put themselves in the shoes of the activists and mine looking in, and take the challenge to step out and make a difference in other people’s lives, share skills and resources, and help level the ground to ensure that equality, human dignity, inclusion, diversity and accountability, among others are held high, leading and teaching by example and learning from experiences, then passing these lessons to future generations.
Some of the areas covered in my contribution focuses on, gender-based violence; a category of students referred to as “the missing middle”; institutional culture, mental health and substance abuse; poverty and privilege; the effects of gender-politics; issues affecting students with disabilities; first-generation students and community or residence students. A more detailed document will be made available online.
So, from the Keynote session focusing on Emerging Social Justice Frameworks within Higher Education together with this document as supplementary material, I invite you to join the global conversation and respond to questions along the way.
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