She has assisted CSUN, LAUSD, the Ventura Unified School District, UTLA, and UCLA Teacher Preparation Program professors among others in their journeys in teaching
toward equity and social justice.
Not exact matches
In
social life, God commands that all cases shall be judged with
equity; justice
and charity are required; no injustices shall be done to people because of hatred
toward them; all life is made sacred by God
and may not be ended except through justice.
At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism
and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude
toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability,
and, arguably,
social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals
and transcendent orientation built great cities
and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism,
and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside,
and a public realm that is both venal
and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature
and ruin it.
In «Foregrounding
Equity in Teacher Education:
Toward a Model of
Social Justice Pedagogical
and Content Knowledge,» authors Jeanne Dyches of Iowa State University
and Ashley Boyd of Washington State University lay out the theoretical model they call
Social Justice Pedagogical
and Content Knowledge, or SJPACK.
Schools need to have a commitment
toward equity,
social justice,
and cultural consciousness.
With continued anti-immigrant sentiment reflected in our executive branch
and now in many states as well as across the globe, school policies compel urgent curricular transformation
and a renewal to a commitment
toward equity,
social justice,
and cultural consciousness.
They argue, as well, that school leaders should expect all staff to work
toward equity, democracy
and social justice for all students
and their families.
ISSA provides a wealth of resources
and specialized training for groups to take the first steps
toward engaging in positive conversations about diversity,
social justice, inclusion
and equity.