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Taking Stands For Social Justice, Francisco Rios, Lorinda Lindley
Taking Stands For Social Justice, Francisco Rios, Lorinda Lindley
Woodring College of Education Faculty Publications
In this paper the authors describe efforts to help students take a stand for social justice in the College of Education at one predominantly White institution in the western Rocky Mountain region. The authors outline the theoretical frameworks that inform this work and the context of our work. The focus is on specific pedagogical strategies used with teacher education students who primarily were from monocultural (Euro-American) communities in their preparation for diversity and equity in multicultural America. The authors describe these strategies and themes that emerged from student responses. These themes included the value of seeing things from different perspectives, …