Developing transformative spaces in higher education : learning to transgress / edited by:Jackson, Sue edited by Sue Jackson. - New York : Routledge, 2021 - xxii, 254 p.

Spaces of identity : transgressions and transformations in multicultural encounters in Israel / Miriam Schildkraut and Mueen Fakhereldeen -- Crossing expected and unexpected borders in the way to higher education : the "window to the academy" programme / Idit Katz and Hanoch Flum -- Transitional, transformative and transgressive spaces in university education / Linden West -- "Us" and "them" : the role of higher education within conflict societies / David Owen, Juliet Millican, Waleed Dallasheh, and Ihab Zubeidat -- Contested spaces : power and authority in an introductory undergraduate course / Uzi Zevik Brami and Iris Tabak -- "Sometimes it's appropriate to scream at them" : the university as a platform for resistance and free speech / Peter Watts and Ruth Rogers -- The development of higher-order cognitive skills : the contribution of a teacher training programme in the excellence track / Yaser Awad, Ibtesam Azaiza, Mahmood Khalil and Varda Bar -- Transforming curriculum : case studies on international collaboration for curricular reform in multicultural education and cultural diversity / Rhonda Sofer and Hava E. Vidergor -- Transgressing power structures in assessment : not a step too far, just far enough / Maddalena Taras -- The university challenge : students' transformation / Roxana G. Reichman -- Transformative spaces in higher education : an epistemological rationale / Nurit Basman Mor -- Telling tales : a transformative space for alternative discourses in research / Hazel Reid.

"Higher education has been presented as a solution to a host of local and global problems, despite the fact that learning and assessment can also be used as mechanisms for exclusion and social control. Developing Transformative Spaces in Higher Education : Learning to Transgress demonstrates that even when knowledge may appear to be the solution, it can be partial and disempowering to all but the dominant groups. The book shows the need to contest such knowledge claims and to learn to transgress, rather than to conform. It argues that transformative spaces need to be found and that these should be about the creation of new opportunities, ways of knowing and ways of being"--


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