EDUC1029 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Societal Racism, Social Justice Warrior, Cultural Capital
EDUC1029 Lecture Week 5 – Social Justice in Education
Terms:
• The unseen half
o Field
o Habitus
o Capital
• What happens at schools to find a way forward – need to be clear about social justice
• Social justice – appropriated by others (the old right)
• Truth claims and banter differ on social media
Terms:
• Whitewashed – hegemony in the field
• Structural racism – eg too Asian
• Freedom of speech – name given to bad behaviour
• Check your privilege/ while
• Social justice warrior, not because you care but because you’re right
• White fragility – infrequently challenged
• Triggered
• Black lives matter – all lived matter – uncomfortable talking about this
• Unchallenged that don’t relate to people of that colour – using race to talk about people
with colour
Social Justice:
• Truth claims about justice – people in conflicting positions/experiences
• Equal access to opportunities
• Human rights and equality
• Growth for social and economic development
• Security not at the expense of Others
• Dignity – opposite of humiliation
• Looking at providing equitable changes for all students to succeed in school – recognition
Issues:
• Equity and equality
• Equal access to opportunity
• What is the model of what we are meant to be like – most represents
School:
• Place of sorting – placed into categories
• Talent is:
o The ability to work independently
o Long concentration span
o Self-correcting abilities
o These equate to the correct form of cultural capital
Climate and Process:
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Document Summary
Educ1029 lecture week 5 social justice in education. Social justice: truth claims about justice people in conflicting positions/experiences, equal access to opportunities, human rights and equality, growth for social and economic development, security not at the expense of others, dignity opposite of humiliation. Looking at providing equitable changes for all students to succeed in school recognition. Issues: equity and equality, equal access to opportunity, what is the model of what we are meant to be like most represents. School: place of sorting placed into categories, talent is, the ability to work independently, long concentration span, self-correcting abilities, these equate to the correct form of cultural capital. International relations competition of numbers: schooling policy process no longer confined to inside the nation/state, education social good or profit opportunity. Instead of increasing in diversity in curriculum and practices, teachers, schools and countries in competition to get better choice.
