Lecture #1- Socially just learning communities Flashcards
What are some tools for building socially just learning communities?
- establishing routines and norms
- celebrations
- balancing individual and collective needs
- learning to listen
- recognizing and naming struggles
- open invitations to participate
- collective decision making
- opportunities for leadership
What are the 4 different roles in activism?
- the citizen
- the rebel
- change agent
- reformer
The role of “the citizen”
Social justice advocates need to first be viewed by the community as responsible citizens who believe in the fundamental principles/values of a good society
The role of “the rebel”
Social justice advocates need to be willing to protest social conditions/institutional policies that violate core societal values and principles
The role of the “change agent”
Social justice advocates need to be change agents who work to educate, organize, and involve the general public to oppose current conditions and imagine more just practices
The role of the “reformer”
Social justice advocates have to be able to work within current social/political systems. As advocates work with elected officials, they can incorporate solutions into new laws and policies
Ethnicity
Refers to a pattern of culture, traditions, customs and norms unique to, but also shared within, an ethnic community
Ethnic identity
A concept involving one’s behaviours, feelings, attitudes and knowledge about ethnicity
Acculturation
The dual process of cultural and psychological change that takes place as a result of contact between two or more cultural groups and their individual members
Sexual orientation
An individual’s pattern of sexual, romantic and affectional arousal and desire for other persons based on those persons’ gender and sex characteristics
Sexual identity
An enduring self-recognition of the meanings that sexual feelings, attractions and behaviours have for one’s sense of self
Gender
Distinct from sex, refers to the socio-historically and culturally constructed roles and attributes given to people, often based on their assigned sex
Gender identity
A person’s own self-conceptualization of their own gender and gender expression is one’s enactment and performance of gender
Religion
A search for the sacred or search for non-sacred goals (ex. as sense of belonging) that receives validation and support from within an identifiable group of people (ex. a religious institution)
Social class
Includes money, wealth, cultural capital, prestige, educational attainment etc.
-fluid and constantly changing
