ABSTRACT
Social justice is a supremely appropriate goal for social education. Three related dimensions of democratic social interaction, in schools and societies, facilitate (or impede) social justice:
Processes: voicing, listening, advocacy, persuasive reasoning, dialogue, dissent, discussion, negotiation, deliberation, consensus-building, decision-making; Institutional governance frameworks: civil, legal, and political protections and mechanisms for appropriate and consistent treatment of persons and problems, including power sharing and rights; Substantive equity: practice of fairness-openness, accessibility, inclusivity, impartiality, non-repression, non-discrimination, equivalent status-for all, across individual and social differences (in effect, the personal and political, culturally and socially just conditions that democratic processes and institutions seek to achieve).
