"Doing the Binder": Shifting Perspectives of Educational Justice in an Era of Accountability

• In Event: 66.087 - MTCC Roundtable Session 30
  In Roundtable Session: 66.087-8 - Interrogating Power Across Educational Contexts

Abstract

Situated in philosophical conceptions of justice in education, this paper draws on ethnographic data of a novice teacher in a remedial reading program and describes her shifting view of justice, which has moved in line with the local school district's conception. As such, she employs what Laden (2016) calls an "impersonal" view of justice in her classroom, in which she appeals to the authority of the curriculum, and those who wrote it, in justifying her total reliance on the scripted curriculum. I argue that this impersonal view of justice comes at the expense of other possibilities for enacting educational justice in the classroom, including Laden's (2016) notion of intersubjective justice.

Author

• Jessica Masterson, University of Nebraska - Lincoln