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Purposeful Decision Making for Relationship-Centred Education: Speech and Silence in University Classrooms

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Educational environments are more likely to be experienced as places of freedom consistent with transformative, justice-oriented agendas if students—including those historically minoritised or marginalised by higher education—feel safe to contribute to conversations and welcome to explore the subject matter in ways that resonate with their own realities. This chapter identifies the features of learning environments that university students most commonly link to the belief that their voices can be heard, valued, and supported, even as they are challenged to think critically about challenging and confronting curriculum materials.

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Rowan, L. (2019). Purposeful Decision Making for Relationship-Centred Education: Speech and Silence in University Classrooms. In: Higher Education and Social Justice. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05246-1_4

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