Social Justice Theory and Education

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  1. welcome. My name is Gorilla Lopez.
  2. Today I'll be talking about the social justice theory in
  3. relation to education.
  4. So let me begin by stating the problem that we've
  5. got the problem.
  6. Toe addresses the need for cultural, responsive and anti racist
  7. public education to benefit all students, specifically black and brown
  8. students. Now, why is this a problem?
  9. The National Assessment of Education Progress reports a consistent 25
  10. or more point gap between black and Hispanic students.
  11. Compared to white students, this means white students have been
  12. consistently since 1990 scoring 25 points or higher, then black
  13. and Hispanic students.
  14. This graph gives you a little bit more data, um,
  15. in reading for Hispanic and black students compared to their
  16. white peers.
  17. So to better understand the problem, let's use thes social
  18. justice theory.
  19. Social justice theory provides a lens to understand the educational
  20. gaps. Social justice theory focuses on the concepts of fairness,
  21. equity and equal access.
  22. It is defined as the fair and equitable distribution off
  23. power resource is and obligations in society toe all people
  24. and ensuring everyone is physically and psychologically safe.
  25. Sensoy and DeAngelo define it as guiding students in critical
  26. self reflection of their socialist socialist station into the matrix
  27. of unequal relationships and its implications.
  28. Analysis of mechanisms of oppression and the ability to challenge
  29. these hierarchies, the and gold of social justice is a
  30. full and equal participation of all groups in a mutually
  31. shaped society that will meet their needs.
  32. So basically, ah, way of seeing and acting aimed at
  33. resisting unfairness and inequity while enhancing freedom and possibility for
  34. all. This is absolutely important and paying attention to how
  35. people policies, practices, curricula and institutions may be used to
  36. liberate rather than a press, those least served by our
  37. decision making.
  38. Now, when we look at the educational gaps through a
  39. social justice theory lens, it allows us to understand that
  40. the educational gaps that we see are is a provision
  41. gap provisioned.
  42. Gap is or happens because re sources are not distributed
  43. equally as quality, Bowman and Taylor have stated Theo Agent
  44. educational achievement gap violates the common good because it's systematically
  45. impedes classes of people from reaching their potential and flourishing
  46. as part of the Greater Society social justice theory and
  47. at an instruction.
  48. So when we think about applying the theory to instruction
  49. every first to successfully teaching all students.
  50. Instructions should be tailored for students not only in the
  51. way they learn, but reflection of themselves.
  52. In the curriculum.
  53. Students should be able to connect lessons to the world
  54. they live in.
  55. This is what we would call culturally responsive.
  56. Now. How does this happen?
  57. Teachers must have the knowledge disposition in skills to effectively
  58. implement and assess a culturally responsive pedagogy following lattice in
  59. billings and others and others.
  60. Culture Responsive pedagogy is an approach to teaching and learning
  61. that addresses the social political context of white supremacy within
  62. education and society, while fostering students abilities to achieve high
  63. levels of academic success and cultural confidence.
  64. This also means identifying injustices and inequities and developing ideas
  65. for social change.
  66. Educational equity means to expose racism in education and propose
  67. radical solutions for addressing it.
  68. Based on what Fernandez and Latin villain have said.
  69. Critical Race Theory, a branch of social justice theory, describes
  70. the classroom as the place where knowledge is constructed and
  71. distributed. If this is the case, then we must not
  72. only provide a socially just education, but a social justice.
  73. Education, a socially just education, implies that the learning environment,
  74. organizational structures and educational opportunities experienced by students offer equity
  75. of both access and outcomes toe all students a social
  76. justice. Education means students are educated about issues of social
  77. justice and how they can, how they can work towards
  78. a fairer and more just society.
  79. So again, the idea off closing the gaps by providing
  80. students their needs and meeting them where they are.
  81. The next leg you will see the references used, which
  82. I will leave on for a couple of seconds.
  83. Mhm.