Social justice warrior is the new community organizer.
Via Campus Reform:
Two professors just published an entire anthology dedicated to teaching educators how to infuse their curriculum with “social justice concerns.”
The book, Promoting Social Justice Through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, published by Indiana University Press, was spearheaded by Georgia Southern Professor Delores Liston, and Regina Rahimi, who teaches at Armstrong State University.
Teachers should use both “critical pedagogy” and “transformative practice” in their classes to promote social justice, Rahimi and Lison argue in the book’s introduction.
Critical pedagogy, they say, refers to “a variety of perspectives that encourage learners to think critically,” including “multiculturalism, postmodernism, deconstructionism, constructivism, black feminist thought, critical race theory, and critical race feminism.”
These theories must then be implemented through “transformative education” or “transgressive practice,” both of which refer to the “use of critical pedagogy to engage students in the ‘practice of freedom,’” Rahimi and Liston note.
Central to uplifting students is the recognition of students’ “lived experience.” The oppressed, the professors say, “know their own social locations,” and therefore have “epistemic privilege” that gives them access to unique forms of information.