
Educating for Justice
Schoolwide Strategies to Prepare Students to Recognize, Analyze, and Challenge Inequity
- 280 pages
- English
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Educating for Justice
Schoolwide Strategies to Prepare Students to Recognize, Analyze, and Challenge Inequity
About this book
In a world marked by deep-seated injustices based on race, class, gender, sexual orientation, ability, and other identity markers, schools can be powerful places for students to learn to recognize, analyze, and challenge these inequities.
Educating for Justice teams award-winning principal Julia Bott with scholars Scott Seider and Aaliyah El-Amin to describe schoolwide structures and practices that prepare students at every grade level to challenge injustice and build a better world. Sharing research-backed strategies, concrete tools, and examples drawn from real schools and classrooms, they offer guidance on
• Centering justice in curriculum and pedagogy. • Fostering powerful partnerships with families and community partners. • Engaging students in social action. • Building adult capacity.
Learn how fitting these principles together can prepare your school to develop or adapt curriculum that nurtures students' critical consciousness; collaborate with families and community partners to strengthen justice-based school practices; establish opportunities for students to participate in social action challenging injustice; and build adult-learning structures that cultivate educators' social justice knowledge and empower families to be partners in this work.
Schools have a vital role to play in readying the next generation to challenge injustice and transform society—and this book is an indispensable tool to empower you and your students to lead that transformation.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Praise for Educating for Justice
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Educating for Justice
- Center Justice in Curriculum and Pedagogy
- Chapter 1. Adopt a Justice Framework
- Foster Powerful Partnerships
- Chapter 2. Collaborate with Justice Partners
- Chapter 3. Elevate the Wisdom of Families and Caretakers
- Engage Students in Social Action
- Chapter 4. Empower Students to Take Action
- Build Adult Capacity
- Chapter 5. Let Teachers Be Learners
- Put It All Together
- Chapter 6. Amplify the Impact of Heritage Months
- Chapter 7. Respond to Local, National, and Global Tragedies
- Conclusion: Justice Is a Verb
- Appendix: Organizational Structures Referenced in Educating for Justice
- References
- About the Authors
- Related ASCD Resources: Equity in Education
- Study Guide
- Copyright
- Back Cover