scholarly journals Social Justice Education and the Role of Museums

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-292
Author(s):  
Amy Levin

Review of three books:Gonzales, Elena, Exhibitions for Social Justice. Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, 2020, hardback £120, paperback £34.99, ebook £31.49, 194 pp. Kostache, Irina D., and Clare Kunny, eds. Academics, Artists, and Museums: 21st-Century Partnerships. Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, 2019, hardback £120, paperback £36.99, ebook £40.49, 204 pp. Quinn, Therese, about Museums, Culture, and Justice to Explore in Your Classroom, New York: Teachers College Press, 2020, hardback $75, paperback $24.95, ebook $19.96, 95 pp. [Amazon UK £81.95, £27.50, £18.68]

2021 ◽  
pp. 221-226
Author(s):  
Mandla S. Makhanya

AbstractWhile the old Heraclitan adage: “The only constant in life is change” remains true, it is the scale and impact of that change that distinguishes the routine from the radical, and the evolution from the revolution. This difference is captured succinctly by Palinkas who asserts:“Change uses external influences to modify actions, but transformation modifies beliefs so actions become natural and thereby achieve the desired result ” (Palinkas 2013). Higher education, in its current state of disruption, is forcing us to revisit everything that we know and believe about education, in pursuit of its continued relevance and sustainability as a “new normal”. Key contributors to the state of disruption are fundamental and influential shifts in geo-socio-economic and political practices, rampant technological and scientific innovation, a multiplicity of role players, many of whom reside outside of the traditional higher education sphere, changing views on the nature and value of knowledge and the role of the university, and compelling contextual realities such as the need (and demands) for equity, social justice and redress.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Richard Grimes

<p>Promoting legal literacy is nothing new. There have been many initiatives, stretching back to the mid 1970s at least, to improve the public’s understanding of their rights (and responsibilities).<a title="" href="file:///X:/Academic%20Library%20Services/Research%20Support%20Team/Scholarly%20Publications/OJS/International%20Journal%20of%20Public%20Legal%20Education/04%20Richard%20Grimes.docx#_ftn1">[1]</a></p><div><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div><p><a title="" href="file:///X:/Academic%20Library%20Services/Research%20Support%20Team/Scholarly%20Publications/OJS/International%20Journal%20of%20Public%20Legal%20Education/04%20Richard%20Grimes.docx#_ftnref1">[1]</a> For example the (then) pioneering and (still) highly influential work of the Georgetown Law School, Washington DC, Street Law team under the direction of Richard Roe and of Street Law Inc, which evolved from this earlier initiative. For an account of this and other street Law programmes see: R. Grimes, E. O’Brien, D. McQuoid-Mason and J. Zimmer<em> Street Law and Social Justice Education</em>, in <em>The Global Clinical Movement: Educating Lawyers for Social Justice</em>, F. Bloch (ed.), OUP, 2010.</p></div></div>


2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Bialystok ◽  
Polina Kukar

The educational enthusiasm for both authenticity and empathy makes a number of assumptions about universal virtues, selfhood, the role of emotion in education, and the role of the teacher. In this article, we argue that authenticity and empathy are both nebulous virtues that teachers and students are called to embody with little reflection on how they are developed, taught, and modeled. Moreover, we propose that authenticity and empathy are engaged in a give-and-take relationship whereby they may not be fully actualized at the same time. By exploring some of the ways that authenticity and empathy make competing demands on the students’ and teacher’s selves, we suggest that they produce uncomfortable tensions, especially when confronted with the challenges of social justice education.


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