CIRGE

April 24, 2020

Practicing Social Justice in Engineering & Physical Science

CIRGE and the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) of UC Berkeley co-sponsored  the second version of the series “Committing ourselves to Social Justice: Doctoral Education for Complex Times” . Colette Patt, the Science Diversity Programs director at the UC Berkeley; and Khalid Kadir, lecturer in the college of engineering at the same institution, shared how they practice social justice in their respective professional arenas.

Watch the webinar here

Colette Patt’s presentation

Khalid Kadir’s presentation

 

Learn more about the series: Committing ourselves to Social Justice: Doctoral Education for Complex Times

In times of rising nationalist governments, environmental crisis, hate speech and acts against marginalized communities, the intellectual drivers and engaged community of doctoral education, have a responsibility to question the norms and values that cause inequality and exclusion in society at the local, national, and global levels.

Doctoral education is the most advanced level of education that individuals can achieve and one of the spaces where different types of knowledge are discovered, passed on from one generation of scholars to the next, and re-interpreted in the process. These functions give doctoral education unique access to individuals and institutions that are in positions of authority in different nations, and consequently, an extra responsibility to work toward democracy, inclusion, diversity, and equity; in short, social justice.

Interested in getting involved in the series, email rox.chiappa@ru.ac.za

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