Social Justice

How do you define social justice?

Social justice is the equal distribution of resources and opportunities, in which outside factors that categorize people are irrelevant.

Acknowledging the full humaneness of other people, their right to be who they are, and their right to be well-treated (Howard).

Activity!

1. Make a list of your identities.

2) Look at your list.

3) With a friend,

4) What categories did you omit?

Privilege

Intention Vs. Effect

Microaggression:
Racial microaggressions are brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities whether intentional or unintentional that communicate hostile, derogatory or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color.

Check out the Anti- Defamation League’s Self and School checklist

What does a social justice classroom look like?

Linda Christensen

• text & situations from student lives
• participatory & experimental
• academically rigorous
• activist
• critiques society

Resources for lesson plans

• safeatschool.ca
• tolerance.org
• national association for multicultural education http://nameorg.org/