Educational Implications of (Social) Justice Work in Other Fields

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Abstract

While there is a powerful and robust social justice conversation within the field of education, this conversation is necessarily constrained by its reliance on particular conceptualizations of and approaches to social justice shared by scholars within the field. In this paper, I expand this conversation by drawing on the method of meta-narrative review in order to investigate two lines of [social] justice work in the fields of economics, anthropology, law, and international development. Using a comparative framework, I consider the different conceptions of social justice these works suggest, as well as their intended outcomes and benefits and the values their authors bring to bear. I then consider the implications of work within each field for social justice work in education.

Author

• Max Altman, Southern Education Foundation