Care and Justice: How Elementary Teachers' Experience Shapes Sense-Making of Social Issues

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Abstract

This study examines how six elementary teachers adapt relevant personal experience, and lack thereof, to make sense of social issues facing their students within the classroom context. The findings are discussed in light of deploying in/experience and pedagogy centered on social justice, care, and needs.

Author

• O. Matthew Odebiyi, Arizona State University
  Presenting Author