Developing Transformative Spaces in Higher Education

Sue Jackson is Professor Emerita of Lifelong Learning and Gender at Birkbeck University of London, where she was Pro-Vice-Master Learning & Teaching and Director of the Centre for Transformative Practice in Learning and Teaching until she retired in September 2016.

"This outstanding collection brings together the voices of a diverse group of scholars deeply committed to working together across the politics of difference to address ongoing social and ontological injustices. Drawing on critical pedagogies, it creates dialogic spaces of and for transgression and transformation. This book provides a timely and significant set of reflections for our struggles towards social justice, reminding us of the generative power of collective commitment to change across and through difference."Professor Penny Jane Burke is Global Innovation Chair of Equity and Director of the Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

• Table of contents:Preface Sue JacksonSection 1 - Identities and border crossingsSection editor: Sue JacksonIntroduction to section : Sue JacksonChapter 1 - Spaces of Identity -Transgressions and Transformations in Multicultural Encounters in IsraelMiriam Schildkraut and Mueen FakhereldeenChapter 2 - Crossing expected and unexpected borders in the way to higher education: The "Window to the Academy" programme Idit Katz and Hanoch FlumChapter 3 - Transitional, transformative and transgressive spaces in university education Linden West Conclusion to section 1: Sue JacksonSection 2 - Knowledges, truths and storiesSection editors: David Owen and Juliet MillicanIntroduction to section 2: David Owen and Juliet MillicanChapter 4 - ‘Us’ and ‘Them’: The Role of Higher Education within Conflict Societies David Owen, Juliet Millican, Waleed Dallasheh, and Ihab Zubeidat Chapter 5 - Contested Spaces: Power and authority in an introductory undergraduate courseUzi Zevik Brami and Iris TabakChapter 6 - ‘Sometimes it’s appropriate to Scream at them’: The University as a platform for Resistance and Free Speech Peter Watts and Ruth RogersConclusion to section 2: David Owen and Juliet MillicanSection 3 - Transformative pedagogiesSection editors: Ihab Zubeidat and Waleed DallashehIntroduction to section 3: Ihab Zubeidat and Waleed DallashehChapter 7 - The Development of Higher-Order Cognition Skills: the contribution of a teacher training programme in the Excellence track Yaser Awad, Ibtesam Azaiza, Mahmood Khalil and Varda Bar Chapter 8 - Transforming Curriculum: Case studies on International Collaboration for Curricular Reform in Multicultural Education and Cultural Diversity Rhonda Sofer and Hava E. VidergorChapter 9 - Transgressing power structures in Assessment: not a step too far, just far enough Maddalena TarasConclusion to section 3: Waleed Dallasheh and Ihab ZubeidatSection 4 Transgression and transformation: the role of universities Section editor: Maddalena Taras and Roxana ReichmanIntroduction to section 4: Maddalena Taras Chapter 10 - The university challenge: students' transformation Roxana G. ReichmanChapter 11 - Transformative Spaces in Higher Education: An Epistemological Rationale Nurit Basman Mor Chapter 12 - Telling tales: a transformative space for alternative discourses in research Hazel Reid Conclusion to section 4: Roxana ReichmanFinal words: Sue Jackson