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Justice by Design: Guide to Creating Curriculum for Social Justice
Ian McLaughlin, founder of www.JusticeByDesign.org just released a new guide for educators. This book aims to further empower educators within the confines of our current landscape. It proposes one path, not the only path, but a path to intentionally design K-12 and post-secondary curricula oriented toward social justice and anti-racism work. This book provides educators with a process to backward plan curriculum that leads toward social justice in all subject areas. It is also divided into three sections: The Why, The How, and The What to support educators to intentionally center and embody social justice throughout every aspect of their practice. Currently, you can find it in the Amazon Kindle store or at various online retailers.
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THE WHY:
Education is a perpetual topic of debate and conversation; from the Oval Office and the halls of Congress to dinner tables across the country, education is on our minds. For good reason. We know that education has the potential to solve the world's most pressing issues, but only if that is its goal; if that is its intention… its design. For too long education has been relegated to being the mechanism for social reproduction. In the U.S. if a scholar is rich and white their schooling often reproduces and reinforces access to institutional power. Conversely, if a scholar is not rich and white their schooling often reproduces and reinforces the barriers to institutional power that perpetuate social inequity and injustice. It is in this reality that Justice by Design finds meaning. Justice by Design’s curriculum seeks to bring into focus the ideologies and worldviews at the root of social injustice, particularly what bell hooks calls the “white supremacist capitalist patriarchy,” for the sole purpose of dismantling them so that a new, more just future can begin to take shape.
MISSION STATEMENT:
Justice by Design strives to create curriculum that nurtures highly skilled critical thinkers capable of and motivated to be truth-tellers and change makers in our interdependent world.
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At Justice by Design, all of our curricula are oriented towards social justice by which we mean curriculum that supports future change-makers to redistribute wealth, opportunities and privileges. We believe curriculum oriented toward social justice should facilitate both deconstructing intersectional systems of oppression and building loving, self-determined, and empowered identities oriented toward positive relationships and connectedness. In line with social justice, we believe in rigor, accountability to groups who have been oppressed, and truth telling by centering issues of racism, classism, sexism, ableism, any other ‘ism, and their intersections.
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