HIGHER EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
Higher education, or ways of engaging with one another, has always been connected
with the achievement of something morally worthwhile (Roland Martin 2013).
By implication it would not be inappropriate to connect higher education with the
attainment of social justice, that is, a condition considered as morally worthwhile
for society. This is so because justice cannot be considered as something harmful for
society. Now a particular theory of education for social justice can be associated with
the ideas of Roland Martin (2013), who proposes (higher) education for social justice
as an encounter. A theory of (higher) education as an encounter is concerned with
both cultural transmission and individual learning (Roland Martin 2013, 7). Whereas
past philosophies of education tended to view an encounter as one dimensional, in
which an individual was seen as coming into contact with an external entity that
changed the individual, Roland Martin (2013, 9) holds the view that an encounter