Emancipatory Human Rights and the University: Promoting Social Justice in Higher Education

This 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.

Felisa Tibbitts is UNESCO Chair of Human Rights in Higher Education and Carla Atzema-Looman Chair in Human Rights Education in the Human Rights Centre (SIM) at Utrecht University (Netherlands). She is also Visiting Professor at Nelson Mandela University and Adjunct Assistant Professor in Political Science at Columbia University. Her research and policy interests include peace, human rights, and global citizenship education; curriculum policy and reform; critical pedagogy; and human rights and higher education transformation.

André Keet holds the Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation at Nelson Mandela University and is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Engagement and Transformation at the same university. He is a former Visiting Professor at the Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality, Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University, UK, and the 2018 Marsha Lilien Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights at the University of Connecticut. He publishes on human rights, higher education transformation, and critical university studies.