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Mass media and big data constitute powerful information tools that fuel extremist, populist messaging. Demagogues turn to information tools to convey polarizing views, and governments ...increasingly rely on data and artificial intelligence to manage immigration. The speakers will describe how three global, deep‐seated, and historic societal ills—anti‐Black racism, anti‐immigrant sentiment, and misinformation—converge to typecast, vilify, and pathologize Black diasporic immigrants. The speakers will also share examples of anti‐Black, anti‐immigrant, and misinformed policymaking, rhetoric, and cultural norms within the United Kingdom and United States. Particular attention is granted to problematic assumptions within large‐scale population datasets that narrate migration tropes.
The history of the development of the Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice was founded on understanding the social determinants of mental health and society and the necessity for ...multiple disciplines to organize advocacy for human rights and social justice. This led way to a wide cross-section of disciplines working together to engage at the policy level, in legislation, and within community settings as the Community Mental Health Movement developed and made a path for the reformation of many forms within the mental health field. This article reviews some of that interesting history and the importance of understanding those fundamental roots as we also look at the future for what is next in advocacy, social justice action, and policy directions for advancing the lives of those with serious mental illness, who face some of the most oppressive forms of marginalization and rejection of human rights and citizenship. This article will outline social justice action agendas for the organization and diverse collaborative fields to pursue as we embark upon the future and envision the full rights of citizenship for those with serious mental illness. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
Benjamin states that “Viral justice encompasses everything from how resources are allocated, and educators are valued and trained to how curricula are designed, students are empowered, parents are ...engaged, and communities are mobilized.” Benjamin's book provoked other questions as well: what forms of social justice work are not encompassed by viral justice and is it meant to be a framework, a call to action, an organising structure, a tool, or all of these things? Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want Ruha Benjamin Princeton University Press, 2022 pp 392, US$29·95/£25·00 ISBN 9780691222882
In this ambitious work, Justin Jennings explores the origins,
endurance, and elasticity of ideas about fairness and how these
ideas have shaped the development of societies at critical moments
over ...the last 20,000 years. He argues that humans have an innate
expectation for fairness, a disposition that evolved during the
Pleistocene era as a means of adapting to an unpredictable and
often cruel climate. This deep-seated desire to do what felt right
then impacted how our species transitioned into smaller
territories, settled into villages, formed cities, expanded
empires, and navigated capitalism. Paradoxically, the predilection
to find fair solutions often led to entrenched inequities over time
as cooperative groups grew in size, duration, and complexity.
Using case studies ranging from Japanese hunter-gatherers to
North African herders to protestors on Wall Street, this book
offers a broad comparative reflection on the endurance of a
universal human trait amidst radical social change. Jennings makes
the case that if we acknowledge fairness as a guiding principle of
society, we can better understand that the solutions to yesterday's
problems remain relevant to the global challenges that we face
today.
Finding Fairness is a sweeping, archaeologically
grounded view of human history with thought-provoking implications
for the contemporary world.
This systematic review synthesizes the empirical evidence of equity-oriented teacher education's (EOTE) effects on preservice teachers (PSTs) generated from 13 countries and published in 58 articles ...between 2011 and 2020. Looking across the literature, we identify a system of EOTE interventions enacted at programmatic, curricular, pedagogical, and activity levels and their differing effects on PSTs' dispositions, knowledge, and performance for equity-oriented teaching. We highlight these findings' conceptual and practical contributions, raise questions about measuring equity, tracing long-term effects, and balancing equity with other values, and outline directions for future research to advance the field of EOTE.
•Identifies a system of equity-oriented teacher education (EOTE) interventions.•EOTE is enacted at programmatic, curricular, pedagogical, and activity levels.•EOTE influences preservice teachers' (PSTs) disposition, knowledge, and performance.•Proposes a conceptual reference for studying EOTE's effects on PSTs.•Outlines directions for future research to advance the field of EOTE.
Amidst intersecting sociopolitical conversations around social and emotional learning (SEL), it is crucial to foster a sense of self-reflexive awareness and discursive engagement among pre-service ...and in-service teachers. In what I describe as a sociopolitical literature review (i.e., addressing empirical literature and public dialogue), I consider SEL through the pedagogical metaphor of a "problem tree." I contextualize SEL not only through its manifestations ("leaves") but also its cultural and historical underpinnings ("roots"). I end with a call for discourse communities as a collaborative form of professional development that can help teachers grapple with complexities surrounding SEL and social justice.
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to outline key findings from a contemporary review of the international empirical literature focused upon teacher leadership. It synthesises what is currently ...known about the nature, practice, conditions and impact of teacher leadership and to outline patterns in the contemporary empirical research base. Design/methodology/approach: This review is based on an analysis of 150 empirical articles published in Scopus/SSCI-indexed journals between January 2003 and December 2017. Findings: The paper draws upon this contemporary knowledge base to explore: contextual and methodological patterns of teacher leadership research; definitions of teacher leadership; and evidence on the enactment of teacher leadership, factors influencing teacher leadership and impacts of teacher leadership. Originality/value: This paper highlights the progress and issues of the empirical research on teacher leadership since 2003 and identifies gaps in the knowledge base as well as areas for future scholarly enquiry.
The degree and scope of criminal justice surveillance increased dramatically in the United States over the past four decades. Recent qualitative research suggests the rise in surveillance may be met ...with a concomitant increase in efforts to evade it. To date, however, there has been no quantitative empirical test of this theory. In this article, I introduce the concept of "system avoidance," whereby individuals who have had contact with the criminal justice system avoid surveilling institutions that keep formal records. Using data from Add Health (n = 15,170) and the NLSY97 (n = 8,894), I find that individuals who have been stopped by police, arrested, convicted, or incarcerated are less likely to interact with surveilling institutions, including medical, financial, labor market, and educational institutions, than their counterparts who have not had criminal justice contact. By contrast, individuals with criminal justice contact are no less likely to participate in civic or religious institutions. Because criminal justice contact is disproportionately distributed, this study suggests system avoidance is a potential mechanism through which the criminal justice system contributes to social stratification: it severs an already marginalized subpopulation from institutions that are pivotal to desistance from crime and their own integration into broader society.
This article focuses on Badin, North Carolina, a segregated aluminum company town established in the early 1900s and site of a current environmental justice struggle. Racialised industrial toxicity ...operates through quotidian relations of care, corporate and state claims to innocence, and perversion of pleasurable environments. This affective and materialist inventory illustrates how race and waste intertwined in Badin to make aluminum vital and valuable. Drawing on critical race and postcolonial studies, feminist geopolitics, and science studies, this paper argues that intimacy is a crucial analytic for understanding racial capitalism as a political and ecological project in multiple spheres including the workplace, the home, the community and the landscape.
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