Social Justice in Practice in Education

Understanding Tensions and Challenges Through Lived Experiences

Janice Wearmouth, Karen Lindley, Uvanney Maylor, James Shea

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032489476
• eBook ISBN: 9781040000519
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Exploring Social Justice in Practice in Education focuses on the tensions and challenges to issues of fairness and social and cognitive justice in the sphere of education.

The terms 'fairness' and 'social and cognitive justice' are often used to justify particular policies and practices in the sphere of education. In providing a clear definition of what they should mean in practice, this book includes a discussion of, and, in some cases, potential resolutions to, tensions and challenges in relation to notions of fairness, and social and cognitive justice that are implicit within individuals' lived experiences across all phases of education. Through their personal narratives, the authors illustrate how such tensions and challenges have played out in their own lives. They go on to explore differences in interpretations and consequent challenges in putting concepts of social justice into practice. Chapters consider important implications across different sectors and phases of education, including special educational needs, leadership and higher education.

This insightful volume will enable educators, at all levels, to hear from students, family members, significant adults/carers and professionals, their experiences of fairness and social justice in education, and about what could be done in the future to redress injustices. It will appeal to readers at all levels in education including those studying for or teaching Education-related degrees at bachelors', masters' and doctoral levels.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the editors
• List of contributors
• Introduction
• 1 The impact of life experiences on learning and the return to formal education in the HE classroom
• 2 Experiences of autism in higher education
• 3 How reforms of teacher education challenge principles of social justice
• 4 Reflections of a mathematics educator: what can we learn from those we teach?
• 5 Reflections on the challenges faced by school leaders
• 6 Inclusion, exclusion, social justice, and children’s rights to education. Reflections of a former secondary school inclusion manager
• 7 How far can student voice enable teachers to adapt teaching in classrooms and support improved teaching and learning?
• 8 Roots and wings: enabling a sense of identity, social inclusion and opportunities for growth in the Early Years curriculum
• 9 Reflections on mindfulness and its implications for social justice in the Early Years
• 10 Teaching assistants as facilitators of learning and engagement: promoting social justice for students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
• 11 Engaging with the views of young people with severe, profound and multiple learning difficulties
• 12 It takes a village to raise a child. Issues from a parent’s personal narrative of raising a young man with learning difficulties, supported by family, friends and the wider community
• 13 An autistic teenager’s experiences through the years of schooling
• Index