ABSTRACT
In 1998, Journal of Education Policy published a special issue on social justice and education policy. This collection highlighted the importance of studies of social justice not just in their own right but because they provide a powerful window on contemporary education reform. Such research sheds light onto the way the social organization of education is accompanied by distinctive patterns of justice and injustice. It also creates a context for more methodological debate about the way research on social justice is framed and what this means for our understandings and conceptualizations of education and society.
