The Role of Student Affairs in Promoting Social Justice in South Africa
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Birgit Schreiber
Abstract
Student affairs, as an integral part of universities, has taken on a key position in contributing to social justice as one of the central imperatives of higher education in South Africa. This article sketches the development of this role and outlines some important tasks for contemporary student affairs. Three conceptual models within the social justice framework are utilized: participatory parity, universal design for learning, and student engagement. These models are uniquely useful to strengthen student affairs’s contribution to the development of social justice in South Africa. It is suggested that student affairs leaders articulate a more explicit position on social justice in order to contribute more cogently to students’ awareness of positionality, privilege, and exclusion.
© 2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Articles in the same Issue
- Invited Feature Article
- The Role of Student Affairs in Promoting Social Justice in South Africa
- Peer Reviewed Article
- Does How Students Serve Matter? What Characteristics of Service Programs Predict Students’ Social Justice Attitudes?
- Postcollege Criminal Convictions: A Comparison of Greek, Athlete, and Other Student Offending
- Professors’ Influence on Students’ Beliefs, Values, and Attitudes in the Classroom
- Civic Engagement on Campus
- Engaging College Students and Cadets in Training Tomorrow’s Leaders of Character
- Opinions and Perspectives
- Food Insecurity as a Student Issue
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
