The Experiential Learning Cycle in Undergraduate Diversity and Social Justice Education

Teaching for diversity and social justice is the teaching of complex abstract ideas about privilege and oppression, such as the social construction of social groups and identity. An effective way to teach this material is with experiential learning, but this approach requires much more than exercises and activities. Courses must be consciously structured to emphasize both the elements and cycle of experiential learning, as well as attending to critical thinking and the potential for cognitive dissonance. An example of this process from an undergraduate course is presented to demonstrate course construction, experiential learning strategies, and initial outcomes.     

Pedagogy and Diversity: Enrichment and Support for Social Work Instructors Engaged in Social Justice Education

The primary purpose of faculty development is to create and sustain a culture of teaching excellence. For social work faculty, an important part of teaching excellence involves incorporating core social work values such as social justice and diversity across the curriculum and developing pedagogical skills and strategies to teach these issues effectively. In this article, we present a model of a faculty development seminar that offers a facilitated space for instructors to discuss how issues of diversity, social identity, and oppression influence their teaching, the classroom environment, student interactions, and the overall campus climate.     

Diversity and Social Justice Implications for Outcome Approaches to Evaluation

It is important that counsellors provide evidence regarding the efficacy of their services. Although there has been an increased focus on generic outcome measurement of counselling programs and services, little attention has been paid to accountability issues for meeting the needs of diverse populations. This article highlights the increasing relevance of cultural diversity for evaluation practices, using examples from the Canadian context. An overview is provided of the key issues for evaluation of programs and services involving culturally diverse individuals and how evaluation must incorporate social justice issues within service provision. Evaluation strategies are elaborated along with suggestions for enhancing the intercultural competence of evaluation personnel.     

Extending the Ally Model of Social Justice to Social Work Pedagogy

Social work students, regardless of their multiple social identities in oppressed and oppressor groups, are called upon to take action against social injustice. This conceptual article introduces the Ally Model of social justice and its alignment with social work values and goals and recommends it to social work educators as a pedagogical tool to use when teaching about oppression, differentness, and privilege. It presents the literature on the model and its characteristics through the social work lens of awareness/knowledge, attitudes/beliefs/feelings, and actions/skills. It also provides limitations of the model and observations of students’ responses, based on their identities, that may act as barriers when learning about oppression and privilege. Finally, recommendations for the implementation of the model across the curriculum are offered.     

Setting the Stage for Action: Teaching Social Justice in the Middle School Classroom

Abstract

In an effort to better understand what it means to enact curriculum that helps students conceptualize issues of injustice and racism, this article describes an approach to comply with mandated responsibilities while offering curriculum that promotes an understanding of social justice and equity in the community. Challenges and barriers to implementation of these curricular changes are also described, as well as guidance to those who wish to begin the process of enacting curriculum that pushes students to critically consider power, justice, and fairness within their community.     

Sexual Justice Is Social Justice: An Activity to Expand Social Work Students Understanding of Sexual Rights and Injustices

Social work education could benefit from an explicit educational framework that combines social justice and sexuality: sexual justice. However, there is a paucity of literature in social work discussing this critical issue. This article helps equip social workers to challenge social injustice through a lens of sexuality and builds a conceptual framework by examining sexual justice through pillars of social work: human dignity, community and solidarity, rights and responsibilities, priority for the poor and vulnerable, and peace. An activity providing micro and macro case discussions is presented to help infuse sexual justice into social work programs.     

公平的多样性及其与效率的关系

世界上没有绝对的、完全的、唯一的公平，公平总是相对的，因而是多种多样的，公平的多样性导致了公平与效率关系的复杂性，不同的公平对效率产生不同的影响，而效率对公平的影响通常是中性的。效率不直接决定公平，但公平问题最终要通过效率的提高才能解决。     

Muddying the Waters: Studying Teaching for Social Justice in the Midst of Uncertainty

ABSTRACT

In light of societal pluralism, diverse visions exist for social justice. In this sense, uncertainty is a marker of social justice education and research. This article shares insights into how we came to ask a question about teaching for social justice through cross-cultural collaborative self-study. Eight New Zealand pre-service teachers participated in semi-structured interviews in which they reflected on their six-week social studies methods course. Drawing on pedagogical moments that the pre-service teachers saw as being significant, this article explores the generative and ambiguous ways in which the course ‘muddied the waters’ of their unfolding conceptions and practices of social justice education. The article describes how coming to know ‘teaching for social justice’ through the eyes of these pre-service teachers provided a reflexive surface for our self-study and has shaped its trajectory. In contrast to our initial desire for greater certainty, placing the uncertainties of social justice at the forefront of our practice has become central to our inquiry.     

Visualizing Social Justice: Using Controversial Images in Social Studies Classrooms

In this article, we promote the use of controversial images to enhance the discussion of social justice issues in schools. Controversial images provide rich opportunities for students to question what is occurring currently in society as well as what has occurred in the past. We provide an example set of activities to be used in teacher education that can help future teachers explore engaging methods for teaching with controversial images, discuss tensions involved with the use of controversial images, and to develop connections between using controversial images and teaching for social justice.     

论社会保障中的社会正义

罗尔斯的正义理论建立在传统的社会契约理论基础上,他的正义原则关注资源分配的合法化和幸福的层次。罗尔斯的正义理论已将社会保障必要性置于个人主义的正义需求之上。哈耶克等思想家反对分配正义之类的理念,他们主张正义与不义只可能起因于人类行为者在适用于每个人的公平规则下所做的有意的行为。尽管正义的争议不断,但通过社会保障制度的建立和完善,由再分配来实现社会正义仍是十分必要的。     

浅谈社会公平与社会保障

公平是现代社会首要的和基本的价值取向,是现代社会进行制度设计和制度安排的基本依据。在现代化和市场经济条件下,只有立足于公平的基本理念与规则,才有可能既增强社会经济发展的活力,又提升社会的整合程度,实现社会的全面协调发展。社会保障正是实现社会公平的一种调节器、润滑剂。在我国现实条件下,不断完善社会保障制度,加大社会保障力度,是维护社会公平的一次重要举措。为此,需要建立面向弱势群体的社保制度,扩大社保覆盖面;建立城市综合援助体系,完善城市贫困人口的社会保障制度;通过社会保障立法,实现社保的法制化,是推进社会保障制度改革的关键。     

我国社会保障制度公平缺失问题及对策

社会保障制度是维护社会公平的一项重要制度。但在现实中,我国的社会保障制度在公平方面存在着缺失,主要表现为城乡之间、群体之间、地区之间的不公平。因此,必须建立城乡统一的社会保障制度和多层次的社会保障体系,实行灵活的社会保障菜单选择制度,逐渐完善社会保障制度,以利于构建和谐社会。     

Beyond Diversity Courses: Strategies for Integrating Critical Consciousness Across Social Work Curriculum

ABSTRACT. This paper advances the knowledge base of social work education by employing a critical social work framework to inform teaching strategies that 1) raise critical consciousness, 2) uncover privileged positions that inform research, and 3) conceptualize social work practice that disrupts privilege and oppression. The premise of a need for such strategies arises from examination of the social work educational policies and standards that require attention to the experiences and conditions of marginalized populations. The conceptual and teaching approach described in this paper extends this standard via the examination of the privileged social identities and the ensuing behaviors that perpetuate oppressive practices and conditions among marginalized groups. A conceptual foundation for this approach is elucidated and teaching strategies for exploring privileged social locations are presented.     

论社会公正与构建和谐社会

社会公正是社会主义和谐社会的题中之义。当前社会还存在一些不公问题,应完善社会主义分配制度,建立全方位的监督体系,保障社会成员机会平等,以维护和实现社会公正。     

社会公正与社会和谐——基于MBO的思考

社会公正具公共性、权威性、公开性、利益性、心理性,主要有准则的公正、程序的公正和补救的公正。我国中小国企在改制中推行“管理层收购”,但国有资产流失,社会补救工作滞后、不力等都是我们不愿看到的负面效应,由此而产生的社会不和谐因素依然存在。实现社会公正对建设和谐社会具有重要意义。     

论教育考试公正的平等性与差异性

教育考试公正作为一个目标和原则是社会公正的一个重要组成部分,因此它具有公正的二重性含义:一方面它包含着形式上的统一标准,另一方面在实质内容上它还要考虑差异性问题。教育考试公正的平等性表现为规则和程序平等、机会平等;教育考试公正的差异性主要表现为既要照顾地区差异、特殊考生的权利保障差异性,还要顾及性别差异性。教育考试公正就是这种差异性与平等性的有机结合。     

社会公平正义及其实现

公平正义从古至今都是人类孜孜以求的崇高社会理想,也是中国特色社会主义的重大任务。当代中国正处于社会转型时期,我们在肯定改革开放所取得成绩的同时,又要清醒地认识到当前社会仍然存在许多阻碍公平正义的问题和矛盾。实现社会公平正义,必须科学贯彻落实科学发展观、深化各种相关体制改革、大力发展生产力。     

正义:构建社会主义和谐社会的基本原则

社会主义和谐社会是中国共产党的治国理想和共产党执政的价值取向,但是和谐社会的构建是一个复杂的系统工程,从社会学的角度来理解,正义是构建社会主义和谐社会的基本原则,其要义是保障社会成员的权利平等。