Empowering students for social justice through a critical pedagogy inspired framework of servant leadership

• Main Authors: Joseph Jeyaraj, Joanna, Gandolfi, Franco
• Format: Article
• Published: Routledge 2022
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/101244/; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14681366.2020.1793216
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

In this paper, servant leadership and critical pedagogy are amalgamated to explore how aspirations for a greater measure of social justice may be addressed within higher education. A preliminary framework is proposed based on three concepts from critical pedagogy: trust, dialogue, and empowerment. In-depth discussion precipitates valuable insights into plausible lessons from a critical pedagogy-inspired framework of servant teaching. This conceptual framework could serve as a guide for teachers who might want to address some of the social purposes of higher education by drawing both on a service-oriented and altruistic educational theory and leadership style.