Social Justice

This week we discussed the importance of social justice as well as different legal issues that are involved in school systems. According to the second article we read,Rethinking Schools, social justice is all about the nurturing and education of all children, and getting them engaged in their educational values.

Social Justice involves creating an equal classroom, and understanding that every student deserves an equal chance to an education, as well as to educational tools that will help them to succeed. The main point social justice is trying to get across is equality.

What should the curriculum be like in a social justice system school? The whole idea behind social justice is to make every student have an equal opportunity to succeed, so that one day they will be able to do the best they can with whatever educational path they may choose. But how does curriculum play a role in social justice? In the fist article,Creating Classrooms of Equity and Social Justice , curriculum is discussed. The object of the curriculum that the students are learning should “talk back” to the world, or be interactive with the world around the students. Students will have a better understanding of education when they can relate it back to specific ideas and thoughts they learned in class, and when they can relate it back to the environment around them, or getting certain tasks done. In order for students to be successful, their work must more outside of the classroom. By allowing students to experience more of the outside world through trials, projects, role playing, and other experiences By allowing students to develop these capabilities to do better in the real world. In this classroom, concepts are experienced first, giving the students a better value of education.

I think that this type of curriculum is important in schools, letting the children discover themselves through experience. I think this type of curriculum is important, especially pertaining to social justice of education. By giving students equal opportunities, they will more likely be successful later on in life, getting a chance to choose whatever field of education they may want.