Preliminary hypotheses towards a manifesto

2018 ◽  
pp. 216-219
Author(s):  
Thomas Docherty
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

The ‘social mobility’ agenda permits a society to circumvent the failings that are consequent on its hierarchical class structure. It exists to protect existing unearned privilege and authority, while permitting occasional individuals to be ‘admitted’ to those class privileges. The entire agenda should be scrapped, and the University should dedicate itself instead to a concern for ‘social justice’....

Embracing Technology and Community Engagement as a Teaching and Learning Medium in Social Justice Education

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loshini Naidoo
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Subject Content Knowledge ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The University

This paper examines the varied learning experiences that integrated socio-cultural theory, community engagement and e-learning offered by the “Diversity, Social Justice and Schooling” subject at the University of Western Sydney. This subject engaged university students in the learning process in a reflective and critical way, by responding to a need identified by community. Together with education technology, subject content knowledge and community engagement, the social justice subject aimed to enhance the educational achievement of marginalised groups, while simultaneously supporting pre-service teachers in the context of their development as educators committed to a social justice ethos.

Embracing Technology and Community Engagement as a Teaching and Learning Medium in Social Justice Education

2013 ◽  
pp. 206-215
Author(s):  
Loshini Naidoo
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Subject Content Knowledge ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The University

This paper examines the varied learning experiences that integrated socio-cultural theory, community engagement and e-learning offered by the “Diversity, Social Justice and Schooling” subject at the University of Western Sydney. This subject engaged university students in the learning process in a reflective and critical way, by responding to a need identified by community. Together with education technology, subject content knowledge and community engagement, the social justice subject aimed to enhance the educational achievement of marginalised groups, while simultaneously supporting pre-service teachers in the context of their development as educators committed to a social justice ethos.

Intergenerational service-learning, sustainability, and university social responsibility: A pilot study

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-85
Author(s):  
Asier Arcos - Alonso ◽  
Ángel Elías - Ortega ◽  
Ander Arcos - Alonso
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Entity ◽  
The University

This paper presents a study of university social responsibility (USR), carried out through an innovative educational action. The students of the studied classrooms in the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) collaborated with a social entity Emmaus Social Foundation dedicated to environmental sustainability, social justice and the social and solidarity economy to provide community services through a service-learning methodology. Using a mixed method approach, we combined the practical experience of the social entity with an active student-centred teaching methodology in order to foster the acquisition of general and specific competencies related to sustainability and social justice. The aim was to create learning connections between members of the university community and links with the environmental and social reality of the Basque Country. This pilot study was carried out in the first term of the 2018–2019 academic year. This work allowed (a) critical knowledge to be generated by incorporating and hybridising discussion elements of social justice, such as sustainability; (b) intergenerational participation processes to be generated between elders, university students and social organisations in order to acquire general and specific learning competencies and (c) social and environmental needs to be addressed through community services.   Keywords: Higher education, intergenerational learning, service-learning, teaching innovation, university social responsibility.

The Role of Education in the Social Mobility of Dutch Cohorts, 1908–74

2020 ◽  
pp. 173-195
Author(s):  
Richard Breen ◽  
Ruud Luijkx ◽  
Eline Berkers
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Service Class ◽  
Birth Cohorts ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Fluidity

The Netherlands is well known for a sustained and marked trend towards greater social fluidity during the twentieth century. This chapter investigates trends in mobility across birth cohorts of Dutch men and women born in the first three-quarters of the twentieth century. During this time there was also a rapid upgrading of the Dutch class structure and marked expansion of the educational. But education played only a limited role in driving the increase in social fluidity: rather it was due mostly to the growing shares of people from nonservice-class origins who lacked a tertiary qualification but nevertheless moved into service-class destinations. An oversupply of service-class positions, relative to the share of people with a tertiary qualification, allowed less-qualified men and women from less-advantaged class backgrounds to be upwardly mobile.

scholarly journals Intergenerational service-learning, Sustainability and University social responsibility

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 1629-1641
Author(s):  
Asier Arcos Alonso ◽  
Ángel Elías - Ortega ◽  
Ander Arcos - Alonso
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Entity ◽  
The University

This paper presents a study of university social responsibility (USR), carried out through an innovative educational action. The students of the studied classrooms in the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) collaborated with a social entity Emmaus Social Foundation dedicated to environmental sustainability, social justice and the social and solidarity economy to provide community services through a service-learning methodology. Using a mixed method approach, we combined the practical experience of the social entity with an active student-centred teaching methodology in order to foster the acquisition of general and specific competencies related to sustainability and social justice. The aim was to create learning connections between members of the university community and links with the environmental and social reality of the Basque Country. This pilot study was carried out in the first term of the 2018–2019 academic year. This work allowed (a) critical knowledge to be generated by incorporating and hybridising discussion elements of social justice, such as sustainability; (b) intergenerational participation processes to be generated between elders, university students and social organisations in order to acquire general and specific learning competencies and (c) social and environmental needs to be addressed through community services.   Keywords: Higher education, intergenerational learning, service-learning, teaching innovation, university social responsibility.

Egypt’s Quest for Social Justice

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-26
Author(s):  
Rasha S. Mansour
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
International Financial Institutions ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Neoliberal Reforms ◽  
Economic Elite ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Welfare State

This paper examines Egypt’s shift from socialism to neo-liberalism in the wake of the economic crisis of the late 1980s and the implications of this shift for its socialist legacy. It argues that the decline of the welfare state in Egypt since 1991 has contributed to the erosion of the social contract forged in the post-independence period, which was marked by state-led development and high social mobility and a prominent role for the middle class. Neoliberal ‘reforms’ dictated by economic crisis and pressures from transnational capital as well international financial institutions led to the alienation of the middle and lower classes and the emergence of a new economic elite, whose dubious links to the ruling class has undermined the regime’s legitimacy and helped fuel the 25 January 2011 uprising.

scholarly journals Class Structure and Social Mobility in the Chinese Community in Singapore and Malaya 1800–1911

1987 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yen Ching-Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Chinese Immigrants ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Class Status

The social history of the Chinese community in Singapore and Malaya in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries cannot be fully understood if aspects of class structure and social mobility are not examined. Of course, the social relations of the Chinese were principally determined by kinship and dialect ties, but they were also affected by class affiliations. Class status, like kinship and dialect relations distanted Chinese immigrants from one another. This paper seeks to examine the nature and structure of Chinese classes, class relations and the channels of social mobility in the Chinese community in Singapore and Malaya during the period between 1800 and 1911. The findings of this paper may be applicable to other overseas Chinese communities in the same period outside this region.

scholarly journals DIGITALIZATION AS A REVOLUTION IN MANAGEMENT

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
L. Ivanovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Information Revolution ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theoretical Standpoint

A new opportunities in managing large, complex and dynamic social systems of individual countries and regions as well as managing economic, political and information systems of the whole world has been investigated. In general, their historical emergence as a result of the «information revolution», digital economy and digitalization of social life has been considered. Such technologies serve as a foundation of ambitions of different classes and elites to monopolize the power, which is a danger to the human society. However, this opens other prospects like creating the social justice» society. These two tendencies have been analyzed briefly in the article. The problem of our society’s class structure also from a theoretical standpoint has been reviewed.

scholarly journals Mapping the Social Class Structure: From Occupational Mobility to Social Class Categories Using Network Analysis

Sociology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (6) ◽  
pp. 1257-1276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Toubøl ◽  
Anton Grau Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Occupational Mobility ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
The Social ◽  
Class Divisions ◽  
Mobility Tables

This article develops a new explorative method for deriving social class categories from patterns of occupational mobility. In line with Max Weber, our research is based on the notion that, if class boundaries do not inhibit social mobility then the class categories are of little value. Thus, unlike dominant, theoretically defined class schemes, this article derives social class categories from observed patterns in a mobility network covering intra-generational mobility. The network is based on a mobility table of 109 occupational categories tied together by 1,590,834 job shifts on the Danish labour market 2001–2007. The number of categories are reduced from 109 to 34 by applying a new clustering algorithm specifically designed for the study of mobility tables (MONECA). These intra-generational social class categories are related to the central discussions of gender, income, education and political action by providing empirical evidence of strong patterns of intra-generational class divisions along these lines.

scholarly journals Co-Creation, Reflection, and Transformation. The Social Impact of a Service-Learning Course at the University of Szeged

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (7) ◽  
pp. 6-17
Author(s):  
Judit Juhász ◽  
György Málovics ◽  
Zoltán Bajmócy
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Institutional Transformation ◽  
Traditional Student ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
The University ◽  
Responsible Research

This paper highlights three aspirations, which are shared by the diverse concepts and practices of responsible research and innovation (RRI): co-creation, reflexivity, and transformation. The authors analyse a service-learning (SL) initiative at the University of Szeged, Hungary, based on the model by Chupp and Joseph (2010). This provides a typology of SL practices and identifies four main approaches to the social impact of SL: traditional, critical, social justice oriented, and institutional change-focused approach. The authors also use this model to analyse the effects of their initiative with regard to the RRI principles of co-creation, reflexivity, and transformation. They provide evidence that their SL course may reach beyond its traditional (student-learning-based) effects in the Hungarian context, and embrace social justice and critical approaches. While the authors also found certain instances of institutionalisation, embedding critical SL into a Hungarian university and inducing significant institutional transformation seems to be a long way away.

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