Social Justice Education as Means of Achieving Equality
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Education is a powerful tool for achieving social justice. Social justice aims to provide equal economic, political, and social rights and opportunities for all people. It seeks to mitigate the suffering of disadvantaged groups and elevate them to a level of equality and dignity. Education empowers individuals and societies and can help reduce poverty and promote gender equality. Social justice education strives for equitable and quality education for all students. It aims for full participation in society that meets everyone's needs. Teaching social justice means training educators to encourage openness, collaboration, and information sharing through reflective leadership.
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Social Justice Education as Means of Achieving Equality
- 1. CONCEPT OF SOCIAL JUSTICE : EDUCATION AS A MEANS Dr. Roma Smart Joseph Teacher Educator Lucknow. India
- 2. According to National Association Of Social Workers, “ Social justice is the view that everyone deserves equal economic, political and social rights and opportunities.” Social justice is the equal access to wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society
- 4. Social justice is a dynamic devise to mitigate the sufferings of the poor, weak, dalits, tribal and deprived sections of the society and to elevate them to the level of equality to live life with dignity.
- 5. Social justice in disability Social justice in Gender Equality
- 8. Education as an Instrument for Achieving Social Justice 'Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.' -Nelson Mandela
- 9. Education provides the tools to improve the quality of life in modern society both economically and sociologically. Education is power Education has the power to change the entire life. e.g., promoting gender equality to reducing poverty. Education as an Instrument for Achieving Social Justice
- 10. Social justice education is concerned with achieving equitable and quality education for all students. Social justice education
- 11. Social justice education The goal of social justice education is full and equal participation of all groups in society that is mutually shaped to meet their needs. A prominent social justice education theorist, Lee Ann Bell (1997) puts it: “… [S]ocial justice education is both a process and a goal. Social justice includes a vision of society in which the distribution of resources is equitable and all members are physically and psychologically safe and secure. We envision a society in which individuals are both self-determining (able to develop their full capacities) and interdependent (capable of interacting democratically with others).”
- 12. social justice in education refers to a commitment to challenging social, cultural, and economic inequalities imposed on individuals arising from any differential distribution of power, resources, and privilege
- 13. Teaching social justice It means training educators in a reflective model of leadership that encourages openness, collaboration, and information sharing. • A classroom practicing social justice will encourage: • Active contributions from the students in the class and connections between students and teachers. • Implementing an actionable and measurable curricula so that educator can track improvement. • Constant discourse and comfort with dissent.