Social Justice Pedagogies provides a diverse and wide perspective into making education more robust and useful in light of global injustices and new challenges posed by new media and communication practices, media manipulation, right-wing populism, climate crisis, and intersectional discriminations. Meant to inspire readers to see learning and teaching from a wider perspective of justice, inclusion, equity, and creativity, it argues that relational and mindful approaches to teaching and learning in specific contexts, settings, and place-based experiences are essential in how we determine the value of education. The book draws on contributions from scholars and experts who incorporate social justice into their teaching practices in different disciplines in universities across Canada, the US, and Europe. Social Justice Pedagogies uniquely presents a wide interdisciplinary perspective on social justice in education practices in order to speak to the ways in which we all want to make our research, our classrooms, and our institutions more just. It argues that pedagogy, and specifically teaching and learning, constitutes a process of building relationships between people and knowledge by fostering a learning community.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Editor’s Introduction
Katrina Sark
2. Resurgent Mobilizations and Decolonial Practices in Education
Sage Lacerte
3. Social Justice Pedagogy: Memorial Work in Action
Helga Thorson
4. It Takes a Village – New Pedagogical Approaches to Collaborative Inquiries with Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants
Charlotte Schallié
5. Historical Objects as Tools for Social Justice: How Holocaust Artefacts Can Bridge Social Justice and Human Rights Pedagogies
Braden Russell
6. Fostering Justice in Learning Relationships among Social Work Students
Sarah Todd
7. Paying Attention to Everyday Discourse: Critical Pedagogies for Disrupting Language and Power
Beth Buyserie and Ashley S. Boyd
8. Writing Fictional Narratives to Promote Social Justice Education: Towards a Heuristic-Dialogic Model of Didactic Design
Franco Passalacqua
9. Teaching Mental Illness through Film and Film through Mental Illness
Tobias Dietrich
10. Future Perfect: Teaching the Power of Emancipatory Imagination
Nina Belmonte
11. Experiencing Social (In-)Justice and Empathy through Drama Pedagogy: Lessons from a Student Theatre Production of G.E. Lessing’s Nathan the Wise
Elena Pnevmonidou
12. Teaching Politically Relevant Authentic Texts: Integrating Social Justice Pedagogies and Literacy-Based Approaches in the Beginning Language Classroom
Kathryn Sederberg and Magda Tarnawska Senel
13. Transnational Hip-Hop and Social Justice Pedagogy: Approaches to Race and Belonging in the Media Studies Classroom
Didem Uca, Kate Zambon, and Maria Stehle
14. Podcast Pedagogy: Addressing Populism and Social Justice as Vocal Justice
Peter Schweppe and Adrian Richard Wagner
15. The Integration of Social Justice Pedagogy through Virtual Exchange
Diane Ceo-DiFrancesco
16. Intercultural Telecollaboration as Social Pedagogy
Jennifer Ruth Hosek
17. Fashion and Social Justice – Teaching and Questioning
Otto von Busch
18. Getting Beyond Alterity: Building a Just Post-Fashion Curriculum
Sandra Niessen
19. Social Justice, Intersectionality, and Decoloniality
Katrina Sark
Contributors
About the Author :
Katrina Sark is an associate professor in the Department of Media, Design, Learning, and Cognition at the University of Southern Denmark.
