When implementing a
social justice theme into history and geography it is important that all voices
are heard in the representation of the lessons. The teacher needs to make sure
that biases do not exist so that no group is marginalized and students have a
full perspective on the occurrence of the situation in history, geography and
social studies context.
Here is a link that exemplifies
social justice; this is a great tool to allow students to understand beyond the
context of what has been learned outside of the classroom. There are a variety
of different resources such as speeches, songs, essays, poems, different
literature, letters and government implementations of social justice acts. This
website is updated daily with “social justice quotes of the day”. This link is primarily
geared towards students in grades 6 and higher.
It is important to
approach teaching social justice in a very sympathetic manner for different
grade levels. In particular students in younger grades are very naïve to the
fact of certain groups are being marginalized and may not completely comprehend
the effects of this.
No comments:
Post a Comment