Education, Critical Service-Learning, and Social Justice: The Australian Experience of Doing Thick Democracy in the Classroom

The purpose of this chapter is twofold: It will highlight how the Austrian educational context has become further debilitating for minoritized students through neoliberal educational policies and practices as well as other pernicious policies to commodify social life, and it will capture how critical-service learning has the power to function as a pedagogy to challenge the commercialized educational social order in Australia and in other social contexts.