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.
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.
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.
As part of this NDE issue with its focus on the 2018 American Evaluation Association (AEA) Evaluator Competencies, this chapter discusses the content and delivery of material in Chapters 5 through 7. ...The reviewed chapters, and therefore this article, address potential uses of the 2018 AEA Evaluator Competencies to promote professional self‐knowledge, enhance education and training programs for new and in‐service professionals, and facilitate evaluator and evaluation pursuit of social justice. This chapter will assist readers of these chapters by providing a review from the perspective of an experienced evaluation professional. Its critiques and related admonitions to the profession are the sole and independent opinions of the author.
Teacher preparation programs are vital to facilitating the development of teacher candidates who have the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that align with a social justice approach to teaching. ...However, enacting teacher preparation for social justice will necessitate teacher educators with sophisticated expertise. To gain insight into this enactment, we engaged in a qualitative metasynthesis of teacher educator self-studies about teacher preparation for social justice. Teacher educator self-studies serve as a context for teacher educators to study and problematize their practice while also contributing to the larger teacher education literature base. The qualitative metasynthesis examined 65 teacher educator self-studies from 1992 to 2021 across journal articles, books, and conference proceedings. The analysis and synthesis of the teacher educator self-studies resulted in naming three components necessary for facilitating teacher candidate social justice learning within the context of teacher preparation: 1) Centralizing the Lens of Identity, 2) Classroom Environment Conducive to Social Justice Learning, and 3) Pedagogical Practices to Promote Critical Consciousness and Praxis. Within each of these components are high-leverage practices and routines of practice that can be utilized to enact that component. Taken together, the findings result in a framework for a pedagogy of teacher education for social justice rather than focusing solely on what teacher candidates need to know and be able to do. The findings have implications for teacher educator professional learning, program design, and future approaches to research.
•Qualitative metasynthesis of social justice teacher educator selfstudies•Metasynthesis produced a framework for social justice teacher preparation pedagogy•Focus on teacher educator identity needed•Creation of a classroom environment conducive to social justice learning•Promoting critical consciousness and praxis through pedagogy
Intersectionality is a theoretical framework that posits that multiple social categories (e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status) intersect at the micro level of ...individual experience to reflect multiple interlocking systems of privilege and oppression at the macro, social-structural level (e.g., racism, sexism, heterosexism). Public health's commitment to social justice makes it a natural fit with intersectionality's focus on multiple historically oppressed populations. Yet despite a plethora of research focused on these populations, public health studies that reflect intersectionality in their theoretical frameworks, designs, analyses, or interpretations are rare. Accordingly, I describe the history and central tenets of intersectionality, address some theoretical and methodological challenges, and highlight the benefits of intersectionality for public health theory, research, and policy.
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book provides scientific evidence to support arguments for equality and change in academic institutions both in terms of the ...business case and the interests of social justice. Familiarising readers with the key equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) issues in health and biomedicine in relation to research careers and researcher development, it is an essential guide for equality planning team members, researchers, HRM officers and managers across academia.
The fourth prophetic writing in the Old Testament, known as the Book of Daniel, has recently undergone an English translation. The primary focus of this text is centred on an individual by the name ...of Daniel. This individual is an ancient figure who is also mentioned in Ezekiel 14:14 and 28:3. Further examples of the aforementioned designation refer to a male progeny of David (1 Chronicle 3:1) and an individual
belonging to the sacerdotal ancestry of Ithamar (Ezra 8; 2; Nehemiah 10:6). The afore-mentioned references provide substantiation that this particular terminology was widespread among the Jewish community in the period following the exile. Given the aforementioned, this paper examines the historical context of the individual known as Daniel, the authorship of the text, the discerned symbolic messages
and their interpretation, criticism levelled against the book. The examination of the book through a hermeneutical lens is considered appropriate as a blueprint for the establishment of an egalitarian Nigerian society. The methodology adopted in this research is purely qualitative involving content analysis, critical evaluation of biblical text on the subject matter and a hermeneutical survey of scholastic views and analogy on the book of Daniel. The research objective was accomplished through a
comprehensive utilisation of textual exegesis. Despite the criticisms levelled by certain scholars, the paper ultimately concludes that the book effectively justifies its relevance to the process of nation building.
What happens when neoliberalism as a structural and structuring force is taken up within institutions of higher education, and works upon academics in higher education individually? Employing a ...critical authoethnographic approach, this paper explores the way technologies of research performance management, specifically, work to produce academics (and academic managers) as particular kinds of neoliberal subject. The struggle to make oneself visible is seen to occur under the gaze of academic normativity - the norms of academic practice that include both locally negotiated practices and the performative demands of auditing and metrics that characterise the neoliberal university. The paper indicates how the dual process of being worked upon and working upon ourselves can produce personally harmful effects. The result is a process of systemic violence. This paper invites higher education workers and policy-makers to think higher education otherwise and to reconsider our personal and collective complicity in the processes shaping higher education.
According to the World Health Organization, 30 countries currently have a life expectancy of ≥80 years: the United States (U.S.) is not among this group of countries. The current analysis assesses ...the ability of key lifestyle behaviors and characteristics to predict a life expectancy of ≥80 years. Only 577 (19%) of the 3066 U.S. Counties assessed had a life expectancy ≥80 years. These counties had significantly higher life expectancy (81 ± 3 vs. 76 ± 2 years) and lower percent of the population who are physically inactive (20.7 ± 3.9 vs. 27.0 ± 4.7%), actively smoke (15.9 ± 3.1 vs. 21.1 ± 3.6%), obese (31.7 ± 4.7 vs. 37.3 ± 3.9%) and have limited access to healthy food (7.1 ± 6.8 vs. 8.4 ± 6.6%) (all p < 0.001). Binary logistic regression revealed percent adults who currently smoke, percent obese, percent physically inactive, and percent with limited access to healthy food were all significant univariate predictors of </≥80 years life expectancy (p < 0.001) and retained in the multivariate regression (p < 0.05). A better understanding of the driving forces that increase healthy living behaviors should be a primary goal in the effort to increase U.S. life expectancy: an individualized approach recognizing unique regional cultures may significantly improve adoption and maintenance of desirable health behaviors and outcomes.
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