ABSTRACT
Transformative Approaches to Social Justice Education is a book for anyone with an interest in teaching and learning in higher education from a social justice perspective and with a commitment to teaching all students. This text offers a breadth of disciplinary perspectives on how to center difference, power, and systemic oppression in pedagogical practice, arguing that these elements are essential to knowledge formation and to teaching. Transformative Approaches to Social Justice Education is structured as an ongoing conversation among educators who believe that teaching from a social justice perspective is about much more than the type of readings and assignments found on course syllabi.
Drawing on the broadest possible definition of curriculum transformation, the volume demonstrates that social justice education is about both educators’ social locations and about course content. It is also about knowing students and teaching beyond the traditional classroom to meaningfully include local communities, social movements, archives, and colleagues in student and academic affairs.
Premised on the notion that continuous learning and growth is critical to educators with deep commitments to fostering critical consciousness through their teaching, Transformative Approaches to Social Justice Education offers interdisciplinary and innovative collaborative approaches to curriculum transformation that build on and extend existing scholarship on social justice education. Newly committed and established social justice pedagogues share their experiences taking up the many difficult questions pertaining to what it means for all of us to participate in shaping a more just, shared future.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section 1|62 pages
Archives and Power: Engaging History Collaboratively
chapter 1|19 pages
Student Activism and Institutional Change
chapter 2|19 pages
Collaborations between Professors and Archivists
section 2|78 pages
Frameworks for Transformative Pedagogies
section 3|64 pages
Destabilizing Dominant Narratives
chapter 8|16 pages
“The Tree of Anger”
chapter 11|16 pages
Teaching About Race in the Historically White Difference, Power, and Discrimination Classroom
section 4|85 pages
Rethinking Approaches to Disciplinary Content