Advancing Social Justice
University of Valencia
Gender Literacy and Social Justice: Key Strategies for Promoting Positive Social Change
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Petra Alaine Robinson, Zachary Zaheer Robinson
This study draws attention to the ways in which gender literacy can help advance and promote positive social change. Based on the Critical Literacies Advancement Model, the paper discusses the ways in which the model can be used as a tool to frame our understanding of current biases related to gender and how it can serve as a mechanism for promoting diversity, gender equity, and inclusion in a variety of learning and other social contexts.
The Reflections of International Higher Education Trends in Turkey View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Şahabettin Akşab
Depending on the developments in social, cultural, economic, and technological areas, there is a radical transformation in the concept of university and in the institutional structure and governance of the university. Higher education in the world has a tendency to expand and differentiate by moving to a new dimension dynamized by globalization, competition and technological development. In parallel with the higher education trends in the world in Turkey's higher education, the agenda focuses on massification, internationalization, attempts to create a world-class university, world rankings, quality in higher education, and associate professorship criteria. Examining the reflections of global higher education trends on Turkey is of great importance in terms of accurately reading all this change/transformation experienced in relation to the concept of university and higher education. The aim of this paper is to make an analysis by taking into account the current and presented indicators of the developments in higher education in Turkey, which is in a dynamic process in Turkey, and to propose supportive policies by taking into account the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the higher education system of Turkey. It is extremely critical for higher education in Turkey to support legal and structural change movements by better reading international trends in line with short, medium and long-term goals, to maintain quantitative and qualitative growth together, and to lay the groundwork for the development of higher education institutions in Turkey by defining the quality and qualifications framework more clearly.
