Social Justice
- One reason that the “gaps” are so persistent, pervasive, and significantly disparate is that “American schools have been pressured to preserve the status quo”. -According to Oakes, Quartz, Ryan, and Lipton (2000)
- Scheurich and Laible (1999) asked the important social justice questions facing educational administration professors:
- Are we willing to (a) recognize the enormously destructive effects of race, gender, and class biases on our children; (b) commit to decreasing and eventually eradicating these effects; (c) radically change our preparation programs to accomplish this purpose; and (d) follow through long enough to see real changes in our schools? •
- Freire (1990) proposed that the purpose of our educational system is to make bold possibilities happen for these students. He stated that it is the work, in fact the duty, of public education to end the oppression of these students. •Shift from awareness to understanding