Dr. Caroline Suransky
Associate Professor in Humanistic Studies and Social Change
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Carolina Suransky (1961) is Associate Professor in Humanistic Studies and Social Change at the University of Humanistic Studies (UvH) in the Netherlands and Research Fellow of the Unit for Institutional Change and Social Justice at the University of the Free State in South Africa.
She studied Philosophy of Education and Curriculum Studies at universities in the Netherlands, the United States and South Africa. Between 1988 and 1998 she taught at the University of Durban Westville (now UKZN) in South Africa. From 2004 to 2010, she served on the Executive Board (CvB) of the University of Humanistic Studies, portfolio Education and Student Affairs. She currently is Education Coordinator of the UvH Graduate School for PhD students. She also serves on the Board of the international consortium SIMAGINE (Social Imaginaries between Secularity and Religion in a Globalizing World).
In her teaching and research, she focuses on globalization, decolonial pedagogies, pluralism and social change and has a particular interest in how Higher Education can play a role in advancing social justice and climate justice. She also works on the philosophical and ethical dimensions of sustainable development in an interdependent globalizing world.
In collaboration with HIVOS (Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries), she founded and coordinated of the International Summer School on Pluralism and Social Change, bringing together scholars, activists and professionals in diverse fields of social change. The school has been taught annually on rotating basis at universities in Utrecht, the Netherlands; Bangalore, India; Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Carolina Suransky supervises PhD students from across the world.
Verbindend Humanisme - with Vrije Universiteit Brussel, België
SIMAGINE (Social Imaginaries between Secularity and Religion in a Globalizing World).
Member Editiorial Board Journal: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South