It’s easy to imagine that someone else, in another community or state, that there are social justice issues, but that maybe it’s not like that here. Your final challenge to earn the Social Justice in Education badge is to apply your reading to a local context.
Now that you’ve thought a bit about the connections between social justice and education based on your own experiences, Level Two asks you to read one of three major texts that have explored social justice issues in education. All three have been best sellers intended for a broad readership.
The idea of public education in the United States has been a radical concept in the history of education. When you think about it, century of education were reserved exclusively for the upper classes, starting with royalty and landed gentry and then carrying on through the 19th century. The fight for an education for all classes is a fairly recent invention, and as such, it’s still not as open and free for everyone as we might like to believe. This badging pathway is meant to help you develop a social justice awareness when it comes to education.