Universities and Epistemic Justice in a Plural World: Knowing Better
About this ebook
Contributions are included from authors working in varied disciplinary and cultural contexts in universities, who describe and explicate their work towards identifying epistemic injustice and finding spaces to advance knowledge justice in theory and in practice. The book will be beneficial to academics and those with an interest in the role of universities in serving the public good.
About the author
Margaret Meredith has 20 years of experience as a senior lecturer in education departments in higher education in the UK and currently works at York St John University. Her current responsibilities include teaching and leadership on doctorate and master’s degree programmes. Prior to that she worked in the third/social sector as a youth worker, and for eight years was a primary school teacher in the UK and abroad.
She has co-written and co-coordinated a three-year international and multi-disciplinary Erasmus Mundus project which involved working with academics and practitioners to develop a handbook about the epistemologies, values and practices in the social economy. Her PhD drew on the experiences of co-ordinating the project using action research methodology to develop her own understanding and practices of participation and inclusion in the domain of knowledge in higher education.
