scholarly journals Social justice and the medical librarian

2019 ◽  
Vol 107 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Russo Martin
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Social Justice Education ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Medical Library ◽  
The Social ◽  
Medical Librarian ◽  
Medical Libraries ◽  
Library Profession

This lecture discusses social justice and the role that medical librarians can play in a democratic society. Social justice needs to be central to the mission of medical librarianship and a core value of the profession. Medical librarians must develop a new professional orientation: one that focuses on cultural awareness or cultural consciousness that goes beyond ourselves and our collections to that which focuses on the users of our libraries. We must develop a commitment to addressing the issues of societal, relevant health information. Using examples from medical education, this lecture makes the case for social justice librarianship. This lecture also presents a pathway for social justice medical librarianship, identifies fundamental roles and activities in these areas, and offers strategies for individual librarians, the Medical Library Association, and library schools for developing social justice education and outcomes. The lecture advocates for an understanding of and connection to social justice responsibilities for the medical library profession and ends with a call to go beyond understanding to action.The lecture emphasizes the lack of diversity in our profession and the importance of diversity and inclusion for achieving social justice. The lecture presents specific examples from some medical libraries to extend the social justice mindset and to direct outreach, collections, archives, and special collection services to expose previously hidden voices. If medical librarians are to remain relevant in the future, we must act to address the lack of diversity in our profession and use our information resources, spaces, and expertise to solve the relevant societal issues of today.

The Importance of Social Justice Courses in Teacher Preparation Programs

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Critchfield
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Social Justice Education ◽  
Teacher Preparation Programs ◽  
Preparation Programs ◽  
Christian University ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Future Work

The social justice perspective is become more popular in teacher preparation programs as a response to growing diversity in schools and to the perceived inadequacies of multicultural education. This alternative to multicultural education argues that teachers should be advocates for students and their communities, helping to address inequities in schools. This project sought to explore social justice education in more depth by examining two classes of pre-service teachers at a private Christian university in the Southwest United States. Students were asked to describe their expectations and experiences with social justice curriculum in a required social justice teacher education course. The analysis of the project’s results indicates that pre-service teachers at faith institutions must be given hands-on, practical opportunities to grapple with social justice and their faith in order to begin to understand how social justice might inform their future work as teachers.

Principles of Social Justice Education: The Social Justice Education in Schools Project

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lenore Carlisle ◽  
Bailey Jackson ◽  
Alison George
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Justice Education ◽  
The Social

Ethical Teaching and the Social Justice Distraction

2013 ◽  
Vol 115 (13) ◽  
pp. 216-237
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Social Justice Education ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
Conceptual Argument ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dimensions Of Teaching ◽  
Educational Scholarship

This chapter presents a conceptual argument that positions two broad areas of educational scholarship—the moral and ethical dimensions of teaching and social justice education—as being quite separate, different, and ultimately antithetical, despite contemporary trends towards merging them in both theoretical and practical ways. It argues that an emerging tendency in social justice education to position its political agenda as a moral or ethical endeavor, especially within teacher education, is problematic in that it complicates, rather than enhances, the conceptualization of teaching as moral practice; it further distracts teachers and student teachers from fully engaging with the ethical aspects of their daily professional work.

scholarly journals SOCIAL SCIENCE STUDENT TEACHERS’ AWARENESS OF THE INTERTWINESS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN MULTICULTURAL SCHOOL SETTINGS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Titus Williams ◽  
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Gregory Alexander ◽  
Wendy Setlalentoa ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Science ◽  
South African ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Social Justice Education ◽  
Education Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Science Education ◽  
The Subject

This qualitative study is an exploration of final year Social Science education students awareness of the intertwined nature of Social Science as a subject and the role of social justice in the classroom of a democratic South Africa. This study finds that South African Social Science teachers interpret or experience the teaching of Social Science in various ways. In the South African transitional justice environment, Social Science education had to take into account the legacies of the apartheid-era schooling system and the official history narrative that contributed to conflict in South Africa. Throughout the world, issues of social justice and equity are becoming a significant part of everyday discourse in education and some of these themes are part of the Social Science curriculum. Through a qualitative research methodology, data was gathered from Focus Group Discussion (FGD) sessions with three groups of five teacher education students in two of the groups and the third having ten participants from the same race, in their final year, specializing in Social Science teaching. The data obtained were categorised and analysed in terms of the student teacher’s awareness of the intertwined nature of Social Science and social justice education. The results of the study have revealed that participants had a penchant for the subject Social Science because it assisted them to have a better understanding of social justice and the unequal society they live in; an awareness of social ills, and the challenges of people. Participants identified social justice characteristics within Social Science and relate to some extent while they were teaching the subject, certain themes within the Social Science curriculum. Findings suggest that the subject Social Science provides a perspective as to why social injustice and inequality are so prevalent in South Africa and in some parts of the world. Social Science content in its current form and South African context, emanates from events and activities that took place in communities and in the broader society, thus the linkage to social justice education. This study recommends different approaches to infuse social justice considerations Social Science; one being an empathetic approach – introducing activities to assist learners in viewing an issue from someone else’s perspective, particularly when issues of prejudice or discrimination against a particular group arise, or if the issue is remote from learners’ lives.

scholarly journals The activist health sciences librarian

2020 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald (Jerry) Perry
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Time Saving ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Personal Story ◽  
Gay Community ◽  
Medical Library ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Acquired Immunodeficiency ◽  
Immunodeficiency Syndrome

At the remove of 2019, it is hard for many to imagine the sense of apocalypse that was palpable throughout the gay community during the 1980s and much of the 1990s. My professional career was launched at the height of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) pandemic, and at the time, saving lives through librarianship was my mission. This Janet Doe Lecture presents my personal story of activism and advocacy as a lens through which to consider the larger story of activism around social justice issues for the Medical Library Association, by groups such as the Relevant Issues Section, now the Social Justice Section, and by the work of past Doe Lecturers Rachael K. Anderson, AHIP, FMLA, and Gerald Oppenheimer. It is also the story of an association that has at times been deeply conflicted about the role of such activism in our niche of librarianship. With anchors in poetry and prose, this is a story of hope through justice, conveying a message of the essentialness of our work as librarians and health information professionals to the mission of saving lives.

As above, not so below: developing social procurement practices on strategic and operative levels

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniella Troje ◽  
Thomas Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Construction Sector ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Practice Development

PurposeProcurement is increasingly used as a strategic tool to mitigate societal issues such as social exclusion and unemployment of marginalized groups. By conducting social procurement and imposing so-called employment requirements, organizations can create job opportunities for marginalized people. Such practices are becoming increasingly popular in the construction sector, but remain scattered, which hinders the effective creation, use and dissemination of cohesive and commonly shared social procurement practices. Accordingly, this paper analyzes the creation, use and dissemination of social procurement practices in the Swedish construction sector.Design/methodology/approachThe theory of proto-institutions, which refers to institutions under development, is applied to analyze 46 interviews with construction practitioners.FindingsThere is currently little convergence of social procurement practices, due to practices not being fully internalized across organizations and projects; interns hired through employment requirements not having strong enough incentives to engage with their internships; actors working strategically and operatively having different possibilities to create social procurement practices; and the development of maintenance mechanisms for the formalization of sustainable practices being weak.Originality/valueThis paper contextualizes efforts to increase equality, diversity and inclusion of marginalized groups in the construction sector. The adoption of an institutional perspective of practice development elucidates the institutional constellation of existing institutional logics that impact on this practice development. This paper also indicates how the work with social procurement can become more effective and efficient and maximize the social value output for marginalized people living in social exclusion. For institutional theory, it illustrates how proto-institutions can be driven by both top-down and bottom-up perspectives.

scholarly journals Critical librarianship in health sciences libraries: an introduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 107 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Barr-Walker ◽  
Claire Sharifi
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Literacy Instruction ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Reading Program ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Medical Library ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
One Step

The Medical Library Association recently announced its commitment to diversity and inclusion. While this is a positive start, critical librarianship takes the crucial concepts of diversity and inclusion one step further by advocating for social justice action and the dismantling of oppressive institutional structures, including white supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism. Critical librarianship takes many forms but, at its root, is focused on interrogating and disrupting inequitable systems, including changing racist cataloging rules, creating student-driven information literacy instruction, supporting inclusive and ethical publishing models, and rejecting the notion of libraries as neutral spaces. This article presents examples of the application of critical practice in libraries as well as ideas for applying critical librarianship to the health sciences. This article has been approved for the Medical Library Association’s Independent Reading Program.

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