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Social Justice/Inequality
This section is focused on the concepts of Social Justice/Inequality, navigable by level of proficiency:
- Beginner: "Examine the term social justice from multiple cultural perspectives."
- Intermediate: "Understand the ways in which social systems create and perpetuate social inequalities."
- Advanced: "Develop equitable solutions to respond to injustices and inequalities."
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Social Justice Resources
From Domains/Dimensions Related to Diversity:
Students will be able to understand the difference between equality and equity, and key concepts and principles of the Catholic-Marianist intellectual tradition as they relate to diversity and social justice. Students will also explore different definitions of social justice in religious and secular social philosophical traditions throughout the ages.
- Listening with Empathy: Taking the Other Person's Perspective
McCormick, Donald W. (1999), from Reading Book for Human Relations Training - The Danger of a Single Story
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi (2009), TED Talk - Levels and Types of Oppression Handout
Program on Intergroup Relations (2007), University of Michigan - A Guide to Gender: The Social Justice Advocate's HandbookKillermann, Sam (2017), Austin: Impetus Books. 55-57.
- The Making of Black Lives Matter: a Brief History of an Idea
Lebron, Christopher J. (2017), New York: Oxford University Press. - I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the TalibanYousafzai, Malala (2014), New York: Little, Brown and Company. (Digital version may be available on Overdrive through the Dayton Metro Library).
- Privilege for Sale & Coming Out Handoutfrom the Safe Zone Project
- The Myth-Busting History of Edna GriffinSwalwell, Katy & Gallagher, Jennifer (2019), from Civil Rights Teaching
- Sometimes You're a CaterpillarRamsey, Franchesca (2015)
From Domains/Dimensions Related to Diversity:
Students will assess how marginalized groups have been subject to injustice by current or past systems, institutions, or practices. Student will analyze systems, institutions, or practices that obstruct social justice. In addition, students will explore ways to interrogate and acknowledge historical influences of oppression and inequality to marginalized peoples, as well as how those systems are linked to current contexts and practices.
- The Cycle of SocializationHarro, Bobbie (2000), from Readings for Diversity and Social Justice
- Privilege, Oppression, and DifferenceJohnson, Allan G. (2001), from Privilege, Power, and Difference, Boston: McGraw-Hill
- Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese WorkplaceKondo, Dorinne K. (1990), Chicago: University of Chicago. (OhioLINK record).
- Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian ValleyGaventa, John (1980), Oxford: Clarendon
- Don't Cancel Your Class!
from The Brook Center for Empowerment and Wellbeing - Blowout!: Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational JusticeGarcía, Mario T & Castro, Sal (2011), Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. (OhioLINK Record)
- Five Essential Components for Social Justice Education
Hackman, Heather W. (2005), Equity & Excellence in Education, 38(2), 103-109 - Big Shoes to Fill: A Teambuilding LessonMenkart, Deborah (2017), from Civil Rights Teaching
- What is Islamophobia? Interpersonal vs. Structural DiscriminationKysia, Alison (2018), from Challenge Islamophobia.
- Various Articles on Racism and Antiracism at The AtlanticKendi, Ibram X. (various dates)
From Domains/Dimensions Related to Diversity:
Students will be able to propose and pursue constructive and equitable responses to injustices. Students will be able to apply information and knoweldge from the past to help create equitable responses in the present.
- Pedagogy of the OppressedFriere, Paulo (1993), New York: Bloomsbury.
- Leading Towards a Level Playing Field, Repaying Ecological Debt, or Making Environmental Space: Three Stories About International Environmental CooperationMickelson, Karin (2005), Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Vol. 43, Nos. 1 & 2, pp. 137-170
- Don't Cancel Your Class!from The Brook Center for Empowerment and Wellbeing
- Social Justice Educational Leaders and Resistance: Toward a Theory of Social Justice LeadershipTheoharris, George (2007), Educational Administration Quarterly, 43(2), 221-258.
- Leadership for Social Justice and Equity: Weaving a Transformative Framework and PedagogyBrown, Kathleen M. (2004), Educational Administration Quarterly, 40(1), 77-108
- Leadership for Social Justice and the Characteristics of Traditional Societies: Ponderings on the Application of Western-Grounded ModelsOplatka, Izhar & Arar, Khalid Husny (2016), International Journal of Leadership in Education, 19(3), 352-369
- Social Justice Leadership as Praxis: Developing Capacities Through Preparation ProgramsFurman, Gail (2012), Educational Administration Quarterly, 48(2), 191-229
- Resistance 101: A Lesson on Social Justice Activists and StrategiesMenkart, Deborah & Acosta, Allison (2018), from Teaching for Change.
- Responding to Racism (Lesson 6.1)from Creating Cultural Competencies
