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Action for Social Justice in Education
Action for Social Justice in Education
Author: Morwenna Griffiths
"Once again Morwenna Griffiths has produced a book on an important topic that speaks to theorists and practitioners alike. Read it.? — Professor Alison Assiter, University of the West of England, Bristol. ?This is a must read for anyone who wants to be provoked and supported toward action and change in education.? — Profess...  more » Social justice is a verb. This book puts forward a view of social justice as action orientated rather than as a static theory. Complex discussions of difference, equality, recognition, and redistribution are made accessible and relevant to issues of class, race, gender, sexuality and disability. Interwoven with the discussion are compelling individual accounts of the pleasures and pains, the pitfalls and glittering prizes to be found in education - told by individuals coming from a diversity of social, economic, and ethnic backgrounds. The second part of the book includes examples of successful interventions in real situations, related to self-esteem, empowerment, partnership, and the initiation of individual and joint action to improve social justice in education. The discussion is kept open through 'answering back' sections by educators committed to social justice: Deborah Chetcuti, Max Biddulph, Ghazala Bhatti, Roy Corden, Melanie Walker, Jon Nixon and Kenneth Dunkwu.
ISBN-13: 9780335199013
ISBN-10: 0335199011
Publication Date: 9/1/2003
Pages: 184
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Open University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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