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Professionals and public-good capabilities (2015)
Journal Article
Walker, M., & McLean, M. (2015). Professionals and public-good capabilities. Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 3(2), 60-82. https://doi.org/10.14426/cristal.v3i2.42

Martha Nussbaum (2011) reminds us that, all over the world people are struggling for a life that is fully human - a life worthy of human dignity. Purely income-based and preference based evaluations, as Sen (1999) argues, do not adequately capture wh... Read More about Professionals and public-good capabilities.

‘Promising Spaces’: universities’ critical-moral mission and educative function (2015)
Journal Article
McLean, M. (2015). ‘Promising Spaces’: universities’ critical-moral mission and educative function. Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.14426/cristal.v3i2.52

Attention has been drawn to reduction of universities’ purposes to serve economic interests only. This dissatisfaction has provoked thinking about how to reclaim a critical, moral role for universities in society. Inspired by contemporary utopian stu... Read More about ‘Promising Spaces’: universities’ critical-moral mission and educative function.

‘Not everybody walks around and thinks “That’s an example of othering or stigmatisation”’: identity, pedagogic rights and the acquisition of undergraduate sociology-based social science knowledge (2015)
Journal Article
McLean, M., Abbas, A., & Ashwin, P. (2015). ‘Not everybody walks around and thinks “That’s an example of othering or stigmatisation”’: identity, pedagogic rights and the acquisition of undergraduate sociology-based social science knowledge. Theory and Research in Education, 13(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/1477878515593887

This article places itself in conversation with literature about how the experience and outcomes of university education are structured by intersections between social class, ethnicity, gender, age and type of university attended. It addresses underg... Read More about ‘Not everybody walks around and thinks “That’s an example of othering or stigmatisation”’: identity, pedagogic rights and the acquisition of undergraduate sociology-based social science knowledge.