Social Justice Education Course Analysis

For the Social Justice Action Project, Britnee and I interviewed college students in the Northeast region who revealed their views on the Black Lives Matter Movement, racial injustice, and racial profiling. We had wanted to inform people of what the Black Lives Matter Movement stood for and tackle some of the myths and misconceptions of what the organization represented. In the process, the interviewees have expressed their feelings of how today’s society is blinded by irrational thinking and biased beliefs. This project have made us realize that people often blame the movement of being inconsiderate to all lives matter, relating the movement to the “armed and dangerous” Black Panthers, and the never-ending issues of police-to-black killings.

Reynolds illustrates how there are a variety of different ways social justice can be taught, and explains how each teacher has a different way of implementing the same ideas. She provides examples of lessons a child might learn and the biases behind it teaching social justice. Reynolds is concerned with the age range of teaching social justice and when is considered the appropriate time. New teachers are now getting taught how to teach social justice within the class room, and the curriculum is changing to include aspects of social justice. Reynolds states how social justice is a branch off the bigger question of “who gets to decide the best

I came into this class not so naïve as some students may have been. I’ve grown up going to public schools, living in a diverse small town, and having interracial relationships in my family. Although I was informed on some forms of racism and the fact that racism does in fact still exist, I didn’t realize it was extensive as it really is. All the readings, videos, and lectures have directly related back to the purpose of the course. As a whole, I feel like this class has grown in knowledge not only about how racism affects people, but how to change and make a difference. This class has informed me a lot more about the unfortunately thriving acts of racism in the United States.

The block would begin with lectures on various governmental systems and their relation to social justice in society. Lessons would provide enough basic information for students to be fully involved in the rest of the course.

The most important aspects that I concluded from the readings include: the social justice education project, disproportionate representation of minority students in special education and is common tensions in a pre- and post- Brown v. Board of Education era. The U.S. latina/latino population is rising across the nation however they are not rising in enrollment in higher education (Cammarota, 2007, pg. 87). Certain curriculum known as the Social Justice Education Project (SJEP) has influenced their viewpoints of their ability to graduate high school and attend college (Cammarota, 2007, pg. 88). Students enrolled in this project were Latina/o from working class families (Cammarota, 2007, pg. 89). The project also consisted of 17 students

Social Justice within Education is not something that magically happens. A teacher won’t wake up one day and their classroom will magically be filled with equality and the teacher themselves won’t be biased. The teacher is the main contributor to having that equality. Social justice starts somewhere, and it starts with them.

Along with social work goes along with social justice. Social work should be engaged in social justice efforts and that’s no exception for Cynthia. She works incredibly hard to advocate and makes sure that her clients have equal access to transportation, housing, programming, education, employment, and any other resources that they have the desire for. Each client has the rights to equal treatment in all aspects of life. Alberta Health Services is very client centered, and making sure that the clients wants what they are advocating for.

This first paper assignment for me was very fair and was also one that was very enjoyable. The reason being we were able to choose a social justice organization that has some interest to us. This assignment had a very loose feeling in terms of structure. Aside from analyzing the organization's’ website, the rest was a free write about how we defined social justice in our own words. In my revision of my paper, I adjusted certain sentences to help provide some clarity of my message to the reader. I took out chunks of the essay that seemed to be out of place, intending to help reconstruct the fluidity of the paper. I also extended some sentences that were unclear by providing more details to help explain and strengthen the so what of my sentences.

Teachers mention the “real world” during class, but sometimes they fail to see that their students do live in the real world. They have their own lives and go through a diverse amount of experiences. When they mention the real world as if students did not live in the real world yet, it invalidates the experiences they have on a daily basis. A classroom can be seen as a safe nurturing space where students can learn, but sometimes a classroom might not do that for students, especially because of the curriculum and what it fails to address or what it addresses poorly. As much as I like thinking about my success, I can’t turn the other cheek and not give attention to the times where I have not been as successful. No one taught me how to find the

This reflection is based on the question posed, “What does Social Justice mean to you and the teaching profession.” The concept of Social Justice can be described differently by any individual whom are asked, however to fully understand this concept an individual first needs to understand their own inner feeling and knowledge of this concept.

Social justice education involves aspects of democratic education, critical pedagogy, critical multicultural education, and culturally responsive education, alongside with elements of social, cognitive, and systems theory. Theorists’ idea of social justice education emphasis on curricular content relevant to social identity and injustice, oppression theory, intersectionality (e.g., the analysis of various forms of oppression), and reflexive teaching practice is distributed by many social justice educators. Social justice education emphasizes critical multicultural education's emphasis on linking social justice theory and critical pedagogy, and progress in reaction to approaches to multicultural education that promotes cultural diversity than

Background: The plan I created for myself to locate interviewees’ ranges and varies a little. As a Criminology major I will be seeking to locate subjects within the field I would like to go in (Lawyers, Judges, and Detectives… etc.) But also I would like to learn more about social justice work (shelter for youth, being involved in civic engagement work and how it feel to be labeled as a “troubled youth.” With the following I will be able to get a better understanding on how I would like to develop my potential career field aspect along with changing the world for the generation after me.

Social Justice is a predominant issue throughout our world. They are fair laws that all humans should naturally have although some are deprived of the treatment that these laws offer. Social justice means that all people no matter who they are should be treated equally regardless of what colour, gender, religion or background they belong to. It also promotes freedom, open-mindedness and equality amongst us.

Social sciences and social justice are both based on the structure of rights. Our rights were designed to create equality for all. However, there are always outliers in our justice system and these outliers can be seen by all. My background and demographic are aggressively average growing up in a small, rural community with little diversity which has affected my views about justice. The class Social Problems and Social Injustice has aggressively opened my eyes to new statistics about society and has made some of my intuitions validated and destroyed some of my prior views. My new understanding of social justice is that is was created for all by excluding some. Justice is the structure of our institutions and society.

Social justice is not an “us versus them” mentality; rather it is a “were in it together” mentality where the powerful and powerless work together. Obviously those who are in need are the poor and oppressed: women, African-Americans, Jews, Latin Americans, etc. However, due to the fact that these people are in these oppressive situations, they gain insight into the injustices that surround them specifically, and society in general. Although they are made poor by those in power and the structures, institutions, and organizations run by those in power, they still possess “strength to resist, capacity to understand their rights, [and the ability] to organize themselves and transform a subhuman situation (Boff, 1)”. The poor and oppressed are held above the rich and powerful, in other words are given preferential treatment. Due to their oppression in life,