Social Justice in Education

What is social justice? Social justice is the mutual obligation in society that we are responsible for each other.  So what is a teacher's responsibility in social justice?  Teachers play the largest role in social justice in education.  They have the most control over how they address the students and what they will do to make sure students understand what they are supposed to learn.  Of course school comittees have the overall say on what students learn and the subjects that they are to be taught.  It is their responsibility to make sure that there is social justice in our schools.  If administrators don't make sure that they are creating a curriculum that is fair to both students and teachers then they are to blame for the lack of social justice in schools.  Teachers will be held to blame when they do not teach the subjects assigned in way that is fair to all students.

So what can they do to make sure social justice is practiced in schools?  Ways that teachers can do this is to make the learning critical.  This means to give some critical thinking in the classroom, let the students give their opinions and have say on the subject they are learning.  Another thing is to be rigous.  What this means is that teachers need to not only teach students how to change the world, but how to live and get by in the one that we have today.  These are very important details in creating a socially just education system.  It is important that students get this experience so that they grow and learn how to adapt to society.