Education is a powerful tool for achieving social justice. Social justice aims to provide equal economic, political, and social rights and opportunities for all people. It seeks to mitigate the suffering of disadvantaged groups and elevate them to a level of equality and dignity. Education empowers individuals and societies and can help reduce poverty and promote gender equality. Social justice education strives for equitable and quality education for all students. It aims for full participation in society that meets everyone's needs. Teaching social justice means training educators to encourage openness, collaboration, and information sharing through reflective leadership.

1. CONCEPT OF SOCIAL
JUSTICE : EDUCATION AS
A MEANS
Dr. Roma Smart Joseph
Teacher Educator
Lucknow. India

2. According to National Association
Of Social Workers, “ Social justice
is the view that everyone deserves
equal economic, political and
social rights and opportunities.”
Social justice is the equal access to
wealth, opportunities, and
privileges within a society

4. Social justice is a dynamic devise to
mitigate the sufferings of the poor, weak,
dalits, tribal and deprived sections of the
society and to elevate them to the level
of equality to live life with dignity.

5. Social justice
in disability
Social justice in
Gender
Equality

6. Social justice
in Race
Superiority
Complex

7. Class
Difference

8. Education as an Instrument
for Achieving Social Justice
'Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can use to change the world.'
-Nelson Mandela

9. Education provides the tools to improve
the quality of life in modern society both
economically and sociologically.
Education is power
Education has the power to change the
entire life.
e.g., promoting gender equality to
reducing poverty.
Education as an Instrument
for Achieving Social Justice

10. Social justice education is concerned
with achieving equitable and quality
education for all students.
Social justice education

11. Social justice education
The goal of social justice education is full and equal
participation of all groups in society that is mutually
shaped to meet their needs.
A prominent social justice education theorist,
Lee Ann Bell (1997) puts it:
“… [S]ocial justice education is both a process and a goal. Social
justice includes a vision of society in which the distribution of
resources is equitable and all members are physically and
psychologically safe and secure. We envision a society in which
individuals are both self-determining
(able to develop their full capacities) and interdependent (capable of
interacting democratically with others).”

12. social justice in education refers to a
commitment to challenging social,
cultural, and economic inequalities
imposed on individuals arising from any
differential distribution of power,
resources, and privilege

13. Teaching social justice
It means training educators in a reflective model
of leadership that encourages openness,
collaboration, and information sharing.
• A classroom practicing social justice will
encourage:
• Active contributions from the students in the
class and connections between students and
teachers.
• Implementing an actionable and measurable
curricula so that educator can track
improvement.
• Constant discourse and comfort with dissent.