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Working to Awaken

Cammarota, Julio

Pages: 1 –12

[In education, social justice is an awareness of conditions by which young people transition through various stages of development to attain critical consciousness. The stages of development most appropriate for this discussion of social justice in education derive from Paulo Freire’s (1998)...

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Working to Awaken

Sleeter, Christine E.

Pages: 13 –17

[To me, multicultural education and social justice education mean much the same thing, probably because I have always linked multicultural education with its roots in the Civil Rights movement. In its inception, multicultural education grew from the work of African American educators and parents...

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Working to Awaken

Meier, Deborah; Meier, Nicholas

Pages: 19 –26

[Two kindergarteners are squabbling at their desk when the teacher comes over. One of them says to the teacher, “It’s not fair, she took all the red ones!” In a teacher education course, in discussing that while “race” is not a biological category, it is still important to collect data using...

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Working to Awaken

Moule, Jean

Pages: 27 –36

[Essay: A short analytical interpretive prose dealing with a particular topic, especially from a personal and unsystematic viewpoint. I have noted with great detail and compelling evidence, the role of unconscious bias and unintentional racism in the workings of our schools and institutions...

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Working to Awaken

Noddings, Nel

Pages: 37 –40

[“Social justice” has become a contentious term. To most of us it means nondiscrimination on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation. But to many of us it also means the elimination of gross poverty and the practices that support it. It is the emphasis on the...

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Working to Awaken

Dudley-Marling, Curt

Pages: 41 –50

[Boston College is a Jesuit university where there is a strong emphasis on the theme of social justice. Social justice appears in course titles, program descriptions, and departmental and university mission statements. The school of Arts and Sciences offers an interdisciplinary minor in “Faith,...

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Cultivating Compassion

Eisler, Riane

Pages: 51 –57

[For me, social justice is not, and never has been, an abstraction. I experienced injustice very early in my life, when my father was arrested simply because he happened to be Jewish. On Crystal Night, so called because of all the glass shattered in Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues that...

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Cultivating Compassion

Rueda, Robert

Pages: 59 –65

[The term social justice is likely a contemporary equivalent of a Rorschach test, where one sees and defines it according to the constellation of experiences and people and meaning-making that constitute the totality of one’s life. Therefore, if many people are asked to define social justice...

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Cultivating Compassion

Glass, Ronald David

Pages: 67 –72

[In this essay, I explore social justice through some of my youthful formative experiences in the 1950s and 1960s, and through some of my novice teaching efforts in transformative pedagogy in the early 1970s. I conclude with some comments about learning about social justice though everyday...

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Cultivating Compassion

Sapon-Shevin, Mara

Pages: 73 –78

[What is social justice and why does it matter? I could answer these questions in many ways: I could respond as a University professor who teaches courses in social justice, or as a peace activist who stands on corners handing out leaflets and holding up signs relating to various commitments to...

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