Change Matters: Critical Essays on Moving Social Justice (2010)

Change MattersCritical Essays on Moving Social Justice Research from Theory to Policy\nAuthor(s): sj Miller, David Kirkland\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc\nISBN-13: 9781433106828, 978-1433106828\nSynopsis\nChange Matters, written by leading scholars committed to social justice in English education, provides researchers, university instructors, and preservice and inservice teachers with a framework that pivots social justice toward policy. The chapters in this volume detail rationales about generating social justice theory in what Freire calls the revolutionary process through essays that support research about teaching about the intersections between teaching for social change and teaching about social injustices, and directs us toward the significance of enacting social justice methodologies. The text unpacks how education, spiritual beliefs, ethnicity, age, gender, ability, social class, political beliefs,.