This book explores schools and how they can function as social
institutions that advance the interests and life chances of all
young people, especially those who are already the most
marginalized and at an educational disadvantage. Social justice is
a key theme as the book examines the needs of youth, the concept of
school culture, school/community relations, socially critical
pedagogy, curriculum and leadership and a socially critical
approach to work. The Socially Just School is based upon four
decades of intensive writing and researching of young lives. This
work presents an alternative to the damaging school reform in which
schools are made to serve the interests of the economy, education
systems, the military, corporate or national interests.
Readers will discover the hallmarks of socially just schools:
- They educationally engage young people regardless of class, race,
family or neighbourhood location and they engage them around their
own educational aspirations.
- They regard all young people as being morally entitled to a
rewarding and satisfying experience of school, not only those whose
backgrounds happen to fit with the values of schools.
- They treat young people as having strengths and being at promise
rather than being at risk and with deficits or as bundles of
pathologies to be remedied or fixed .
- They are active listeners to the lives and cultures of their
students and communities and they construct learning experiences
that are embedded in young lives.
This highly readable book will appeal to students and scholars in
education and sociology, as well as to teachers and school
administrators with an interest in social justice."
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