Equality and social justice: The university as a site of struggle

Lynch, Kathleen; Crean, Margaret; Moran, Marie

doi:10.4324/9780203863701-35

The Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Education 2009

DOI: 10.4324/9780203863701-35

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Equality and social justice: The university as a site of struggle

Kathleen Lynch¹,

Margaret Crean²,

Marie Moran³

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Modernity’s University, Social Justice, and Social Responsibility

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Centered on the experience of Eduardo Mondlane in three universities in the United States, this article highlights the importance of universities to assume a social responsibility stance that is critical of its philosophical foundation and roots itself on perceptions of human beyond the current cartesian ethos. Conceptually, the article centers its discourse on the divergent conceptualizations of human drawn from humanism and uBuntu, as foundational differentiators of perceptions and practices of justice and social responsibility. Theoretically, it leans on a critique of modernity and humanism by presenting uBuntu and Cosmo‑uBuntu as alternative philosophical and theoretical lenses for problematizing and explaining justice and social responsibility. Methodologically, it draws from reflexivity, hermeneutics (especially, textual criticism), and archival documentary research. Its purpose is to inspire universities to engage in reflexivity about their social responsibility claims and to encourage an intentional commitment to social responsibility that is informed by exterior to modernity theorizing.

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Equality and social justice: The university as a site of struggle

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