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- Social justice education, therefore, provides tools to examine the structural features of oppression and our own socialization within unjust systems. It helps us develop awareness of injustice in our personal lives, communities, institutions and the broader society.
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A goal of social justice education is to help us recognize the terrible social, political and moral costs of maintaining systems of oppression. When millions of Americans are homeless and hungry, we all pay a social and moral price.
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- Equity and Distributive Justice
- Adequacy and The Democratic Threshold
- Intersection of Equity and Adequacy
- Social Recognition
Although distributive justice figures prominently in how we think of financial resources and the fairness with which those resources are available to people, the idea of justice as fairness is also applied to any social goods and division of responsibilities. At the most macrolevel, distributive justice is used as a lens to explore the ways in whic...
Political philosopher Amy Gutmann (1987) posits that educational resources (broadly defined) should be distributed in a way that adequately allows for democratic participation, provides opportunities for people to ultimately pursue a good life (as they conceive it), and supports the opportunity to identify and connect with communities, large and sm...
In practice, we can find examples of both Gutmann’s (1987) Democratic Threshold Principle and Rawls’ (1971) First Principle of A Theory of Justicethroughout attempts by district, state, and federal school funding systems to distribute educational resources and measure their impact on children. The belief that there is some sort of experience that c...
Social justice as recognition is a way of thinking about remedies for injustice that acknowledge how purely distributive approaches may in fact perpetuate oppression by devaluing the ways in which people are different. This is particularly true in the ways the goals of distribution are centered in the dominant frame. According to Cochran-Smith (200...
Nov 29, 2018 · This paper offers a critical examination of the nature of inequalities in relation to education and the pursuit of social justice. It argues that assessment of educational resources and measures such as school enrolment and educational achievement are limited in what they tell us about the injustices learners may experience.
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provides an excellent analysis of social justice in the Learning for Justice article “What Is Social Justice Education?” Bell defines the critical role of social justice education as: “[providing] tools to examine the structural features of oppression and our own socialization within unjust systems. It helps us develop awareness
The phrase social justice is used in school mission statements, job announcements, and educational reform proposals, though sometimes widely disparate ones, from creating a vision of culturally responsive schools to leaving no child behind.
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Jan 1, 2014 · Social justice education theories maintain that schools should serve as sites of democracy with all its inherent ideological, cultural, religious, and social diversity, and should serve to work toward social justice, a significant signpost of democracy.
informs social justice pedagogy with its focus on personal and cultural experiences as content for learning, a critical stance to received knowledge, and real-life and relevant applications. A social justice approach involves both teachers and students in recognising social injustices.
