This study explores teacher educators' (TEs) understanding of and pedagogical activities for preparing preservice teachers to teach for social transformation in K-12 educational settings. The ...participants were 17 TEs at a university-based teacher education program in the United States. Data were interviews, teaching artifacts, and observations. Using ideology-in-pieces framework (Philip, 2011), TEs' complex sensemaking and their enactments are analyzed focusing on cognitive, social and structural dimensions. The analyses reveal TE's uneven attention to structural dimension as well as the roles of their professional interactions and membership. Implications for providing programmatic, intentional, and coordinated experiences for preservice teachers are discussed.
•There were substantial variations in teacher educators' attention to structural dimension as well as their own racial identities when they made sense of a teacher education program's commitment to promote equity and social justice.•When teacher educators made sense of the program's commitment while attending multiple dimensions, including identities, agency, and structure, they tended to support PTs to approach teaching in a complex way with multiple goals.•Teacher educators' interactions and professional memberships shaped their sensemaking and enactment of the program's commitment.
Surveying the Moral Landscape Janoff-Bulman, Ronnie; Carnes, Nate C.
Personality and social psychology review,
08/2013, Letnik:
17, Številka:
3
Journal Article
We present a new six-cell Model of Moral Motives that applies a fundamental motivational distinction in psychology to the moral domain. In addition to moral motives focused on the self or another, we ...propose two group-based moralities, both communal in orientation, but reflecting distinct moral motives (Social Order/Communal Solidarity vs. Social Justice/Communal Responsibility) as well as differences in construals of group entitativity. The two group-based moralities have implications for intragroup homogeneity as well as intergroup conflict. Our model challenges the conclusions of Haidt and colleagues that only conservatives (not liberals) are group oriented and embrace a binding morality. We explore the implications of this new model for politics in particular and for the self-regulation versus social regulation of morality more generally.
Justice at the Millennium, a Decade Later Colquitt, Jason A; Scott, Brent A; Rodell, Jessica B ...
Journal of applied psychology,
03/2013, Letnik:
98, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Although a flurry of meta-analyses summarized the justice literature at the turn of the millennium, interest in the topic has surged in the decade since. In particular, the past decade has witnessed ...the rise of social exchange theory as the dominant lens for examining reactions to justice, and the emergence of affect as a complementary lens for understanding such reactions. The purpose of this meta-analytic review was to test direct, mediating, and moderating hypotheses that were inspired by those 2 perspectives, to gauge their adequacy as theoretical guides for justice research. Drawing on a review of 493 independent samples, our findings revealed a number of insights that were not included in prior meta-analyses. With respect to social exchange theory, our results revealed that the significant relationships between justice and both task performance and citizenship behavior were mediated by indicators of social exchange quality (trust, organizational commitment, perceived organizational support, and leader-member exchange), though such mediation was not apparent for counterproductive behavior. The strength of those relationships did not vary according to whether the focus of the justice matched the target of the performance behavior, contrary to popular assumptions in the literature, or according to whether justice was referenced to a specific event or a more general entity. With respect to affect, our results showed that justice-performance relationships were mediated by positive and negative affect, with the relevant affect dimension varying across justice and performance variables. Our discussion of these findings focuses on the merit in integrating the social exchange and affect lenses in future research.
In counseling, much of the social justice scholarship and discourse is centralized around a general and singular conceptualization of social justice. In this manuscript, we review interdisciplinary ...social justice literature as a means of synthesizing and augmenting the counseling literature. Because the profession's literature has yet to investigate and expand the operationalization of social justice robustly, we present social justice as a multiplistic phenomenon in need of further attention and offer suggestion for next steps.
Young people around the world are calling ever more urgently on policymakers to address today’s global challenges of sustainability, structural inequality and social justice. So it is little surprise ...that learning in a global society, understanding sustainable development and being active global citizens are increasingly popular themes for education at all levels. Educational research makes a crucial contribution to knowledge that can address the great questions of our time, with evidence from diverse studies vital if we are to build a clear picture. Research in Global Learning showcases methods and findings from early career researchers who conducted illuminating studies around the globe, specifically in Brazil, China, Ghana, Greece, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Poland, South Korea, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, the United States and the United Kingdom. The studies in this volume investigate four important themes: the relationship between policy and practice; opportunities and constraints in the education system and for the role of teachers; challenges for higher education; and the perspectives of young people and students. Flexibility of approach is crucial for successful educational research in varied environments, and is on show throughout this book. Depending on context, authors used case study, quantitative and qualitative research, participatory action research, longitudinal studies and analysis of textbooks through critical discourse analysis to demonstrate how learning about global learning and sustainability can inspire learners and contribute to quality education. Praise for Research in Global Learning '...Research in Global Learning manages to achieve its stated aims. For me, its greatest asset was the wide variety of contexts in which research was undertaken; the differing environments, outlooks and settings of each of the fifteen countries included in the text bring enormous richness to the perspectives offered, and provide an illuminating glimpse into places and systems that may well be unfamiliar to readers.' Development Education Review
Relative Deprivation Smith, Heather J.; Pettigrew, Thomas F.; Pippin, Gina M. ...
Personality and social psychology review,
08/2012, Letnik:
16, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Relative deprivation (RD) is the judgment that one is worse off compared to some standard accompanied by feelings of anger and resentment. Social scientists use RD to predict a wide range of ...significant outcome variables: collective action, individual achievement and deviance, intergroup attitudes, and physical and mental health. But the results are often weak and inconsistent. The authors draw on a theoretical and meta-analytic review (210 studies composing 293 independent samples, 421 tests, and 186,073 respondents) to present a model that integrates group and individual RD. RD measures that (a) include justice-related affect, (b) match the outcome level of analysis, and (c) use higher quality measures yield significantly stronger relationships. Future research should focus on appropriate RD measurement, angry resentment, and the inclusion of theoretically relevant situational appraisals. Such methodological improvements would revitalize RD as a useful social psychological predictor of a wide range of important individual and social processes.
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