ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines an educational philosophy for higher education designed to meet the needs of globally diverse learners in a multicultural and interconnected world. Critical literacies are becoming increasingly necessary for everybody. Despite, or because of the multicultural and globalising world in which people now live, the rhetoric of division and separatism is gaining legitimacy in many places. The advance of ‘fake news’ is concerning, but the narrative in itself implies that some news is not ‘fake’, and people perhaps all need reminding that any news becomes opinion as soon as it is ‘reported’. Higher education in many contexts is establishing itself as a consumer product, as marketisation replaces the notion of ‘public good’ with priorities for efficiency and performativity. Critical pedagogy is a philosophy of education, underpinned by a belief in ‘the inter-relation between education and society’, and the commitment to enact ‘change in education and society to ensure greater social justice’.
