Social Justice Education
A social justice approach to education involves two instructional strategies: antiracist and abolitionist teaching. Both approaches allow faculty to implement educational practices that provide meaningful, relevant, and liberating learning experiences for students.
Strategy Features
To create antiracist spaces where BIPOC students can thrive, faculty should critically examine instructional practices and focus on advancing social justice education, uplifting communities of color, and acknowledging their contributions.
Create a course framed in antiracism and abolitionism, where faculty intentionally embed readings, videos, and blogs that affirm historical experiences and contributions from communities of color.
Intentionally design materials that inform discipline outcomes through an antiracist lens to ensure course content affirms BIPOC students and their communities, ideologies, values, and norms.
Build faculty-student relationships through an approach that values and embraces the whole student rather than only viewing them as a math major. Show care about students that goes beyond surface-level interactions.
Implementation Tips
Develop assignments that allow students to engage with accurate and affirming depictions of people of color, and have them read, analyze, and discuss course content through an antiracist lens, taking into account their lived experiences.
Create social justice assignments that allow students, specifically BIPOC students, to become agents of change by using their own voices and lived experiences.
Antiracist teaching must be intentionally woven into the course content and curricula and should be embedded in teaching and learning across disciplines.
Reach out to and engage with students outside of course content by having genuine conversations about their interests, lives, work experiences, and families.
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