NEW240Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Public Toilet, New Social Movements, Identity Politics
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Leaning in: students guide to engaging constructively with social justice content. Equity studies takes a critical stance: meaning it operates from the perspective that knowledge is socially constructed and that education is a political project that reproduces inequality. The ultimate goal of social justice education is to allow us to recognize structural inequalities in way to prepare us to change them. Where we are dominant groups (white, males) we will almost always have a superficial understanding because that is the message made available to us by mainstream society. Mainstream culture prevents us from understanding a central tenet of social justice education: society is structured in ways that make us all complicit in systems of inequality: there is no neutral ground. Most of us see so(cid:272)ial s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:374)t as (cid:862)soft s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) therefore value laden and subjective; on the othe(cid:396) ha(cid:374)d, (cid:374)atu(cid:396)al s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e is see(cid:374) as (cid:862)ha(cid:396)d s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) the(cid:396)efo(cid:396)e (cid:448)alue-neutral and objective.
