Description
This engaging edited collection highlights key discussions around educational inequity and related structures and sub-structures. Featuring a diverse array of contributors, Social Justice Education in Canada balances important knowledge, learning practices, and possibilities emanating from and embedded in antiracist and anti-oppressive education with instructive, grounding examples. The text confronts the idea of social justice as an abstract concept, discussing suggestions for rethinking educational systems and making changes that will benefit the learning lives of all students. With the aim to critically expand the emerging and increasingly active debates in this important area of educational and social development, this volume strives to collectively deepen our understanding and appreciation for critical social justice education.
Organized into 14 chapters and featuring an epilogue written by Dr. Edward Shizha, the book critically deals with contemporary topical issues in education, including readings on cultural, racial, religious, Indigenous, language, socioeconomic, citizenship, disability/ableism, and immigrant/refugee status realities and their interwoven learning and teaching intersections. This text is an essential resource for undergraduate and graduate students of education across Canada.
Review
―Aaron Stout, Instructor, Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge“Social Justice Education in Canada: Select Perspectives makes a timely and necessary contribution to the pressing, and often neglected, issues of equity in education from critical and multi-dimensional perspectives. The contributions address multiple marginalizations, going beyond limited understandings of ‘multiculturalism’ to more expanded and progressive notions of social justice. The book provides both systems-level and experiential analyses, opening up multiple avenues for understanding and inquiry. An extremely valuable contribution to assessing and re-assessing education in Canada.”
―Prachi Srivastava, Associate Professor, Education and Global Development, Western University“Social justice is a veritable floating signifier, and it is therefore particularly illustrative and apt that Social Justice Education in Canada: Select Perspectives involves an eclectic set of issues and approaches addressed by an interesting mix of seasoned, authoritative figures and exciting new voices. Without pretense to being exhaustive or definitive, this collection nevertheless epitomizes the comprehensive and necessarily diverse set of approaches to anti-oppression education that is making for just representation, equity, and inclusion in and through education in the Canadian context.”
―Handel Kashope Wright, Professor and Director, Centre for Culture, Identity and Education, University of British Columbia
From the Back Cover
This timely collection highlights key discussions on educational inequity and related structures and sub-structures. Featuring a diverse array of chapters and contributors, Social Justice Education in Canada reframes educational systems by engaging with important knowledges, learning practices, and possibilities embedded in anti-racist and anti-oppressive teaching. Balancing theory with practical content and suggestions, this seminal text critically expands emerging debates in the field and provides instructive examples for application in the classroom.
This volume includes fourteen chapters grounded in contemporary issues in education including racial, ethnic, and religious social justice, equity for Indigenous, immigrant, and refugee learners, as well as factors including culture, socio-economic status, disability, and citizenship contexts. End of chapter discussion questions encourage further reflection and debates on the topics, theories, and experiences presented. The text closes with an epilogue written by Dr. Edward Shizha that summarizes core concepts discussed and prompts readers to consider a way forward. Aiming to collectively deepen our understanding of, and appreciation for critical social justice education and to inspire rethinking educational systems for the benefit of all learners, this collection is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate Education students across Canada.
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