EDLA 7001 - Social Justice and Education

Institution:

Loyola Marymount University

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Description:

3 Semester Hours This course examines various approaches to conceptualizing, interpreting, and making operational social justice. The course will review the historical development of the concept of social justice in an inter-disciplinary manner. Particular attention will be given to: critically competing ethical and religious theories of justice; sociological factors of schools as institutions of injustice and cultures that can promote an ethos to further justice; the relationships of the ethical theory of justice of educational institutions; and the examination of pedagogy for social justice. The goal of the course is to bring together ethics, sociology of education, and concrete pedagogy.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.lmu.edu

Phone Number:

(310) 338-2700

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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