Welcome to the Innovative Teaching Showcase, a series publication created by WWU's Center for Instructional Innovation. In this Engaging Social Justice issue, we honor the work of several instructors, Troy Abel, Deb Currier, and Ee Lin Lee. Explore how social justice informs educational practices and empowers students to think critically about their studies in university and beyond. For more on the theme, see Social Justice Conversation in Higher Education with Dr. Kristen B. French and Dr. Verónica Vélez, the Ideas collection, insights from additional instructors in the Profiles section, and our accompanying Social Justice Toolkit.
“People who use social justice as a signal for what their work engages with understand that inequities are produced, inequities are structured, and that things have got to change in order to achieve different educational outcomes. Social justice education is a choice away from pathology and linearity. … There is no future in the field of education without the contributions of people who are doing their work under the rising sign of social justice. ”—Toward What Justice, Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, eds.