Learning Outcomes
Learning Objectives:
Students who participate in SJE programs will:
- Examine their own social identities, values, beliefs, and behaviors
- Develop critical skills for communicating across social identity
- Explore how power, privilege, and oppression manifest at individual, interpersonal, and institutional levels
- Understand how their individual and interpersonal actions can promote social justice
Social Justice is “both a goal and a process. The goal of social justice is full and equitable participation of people from all social identity groups in a society that is mutually shaped to meet their needs. The process for attaining social justice should also be democratic and participatory, respectful of human diversity and group differences, and inclusive and affirming of human agency and capacity for working collaboratively with others to create change.”
(Bell, L.A. 2016. Theoretical Foundations for Social Justice Education. In Adams, M., Bell, L.A., Goodman, D.J., & Joshi, K. Y. Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice. New York, NY: Routledge.)