Social Justice Toolkit

Curricular Ideas

Assignment Ideas and Practices

• Diversity and Inclusion in the College Classroom, Faculty Focus. A report of 20 articles containing practical assignment ideas and practices, 2017
• Inclusive Practices for Managing Controversial Issues in the Classroom, Flinders University
• Social Justice Toolbox, Contains a variety of activities designed for understanding social justice issues
• Teaching Note - Integrating a Social Justice Assignment Into a Research Methods Course, Susan C. Mapp, 2013
• Understanding Social Injustice by Walking in Another Person's Shoes, Fred Bemak, Rita Chi-Ying Chung, Action Teaching, 2014

Strategies

Exploring Privilege

• Diversity Toolkit: A Guide to Discussing Identity, Power and Privilege, University of Southern California

Exploring Social Justice

• A Collection of Resources for Teaching Social Justice, Cult of Pedagogy
• Exploring Social Justice Through Music, Daniel C. Byrd and Denise L. Levy, Association for Psychological Science

Service-Learning/Community Learning

• From Charity to Justice: The Potential of University-Community Collaboration for Social Change, American Behavioral Scientist
• Toolkit for Preparing Students for Service-Learning, University of N. Carolina

Discussions, Managing

• Guidelines for Discussing Difficult or Controversial Topics, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan
• Guidelines for Discussing Incidents of Hate, Bias, and Discrimination, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan
• Managing Difficult Classroom Discussions, Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, Indiana University Bloomington
• Managing Hot Moments in the Classroom, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University
• Respect Differences? Challenging the Common Guidelines in Social Justice Education, Özlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo, Democracy & Education

Discussions, Strategies

• Myths and Moral Panics: An Active Learning Approach to Controversial Topics, Karen A. Mason, Ph.D., Lisa T. Briggs, Ph.D., Western Carolina University
• Social Justice Fridays, The Banneker Institute, Harvard University. List of social justice topics with suggested readings and discussion questions.

Disciplinary Ideas - Assignments, discipline-specific

Arts

• An Inevitable Question: Exploring the Defining Features of Social Justice Art Education, Marit Dewhurst
• Arts Activism: Praxis in Social Justice, Critical Discourse, and Radical Modes of Engagement, Karen Frostig Newton, Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association
• Public Pedagogy and Social Justice in Arts Education, The International Journal of Art & Design Education
• Street Canvas Lesson Plan, Arts for Social Justice Program, Santa Clara University

Business

• Business Education for Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Justice, Shannon Deer and Jill Zarestky
• Business pedagogy for social justice? An exploratory investigation of business faculty perspectives of social justice in business education, Madeline Toubiana, Management Learning
• Social Justice in the Business and Professional Communication Curriculum, Melinda Knight, Business and Professional Communication Quarterly

Education

• Preparing Teachers of Young Children to be Social Justice-Oriented Educators, Celia Oyler
• Taking on teaching for social justice, UW College of Education
• Teacher Education for Social Change: Transforming a Content Methods Course Block, Scott Ritchie, Neporcha Cone, Sohyun An, Patricia Bullock
• Teaching for Social Justice transforms curriculum, educator mindset and improves student learning, McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation
• Using Their Words: Six Elements of Social Justice Curriculum Design for the Elementary Classroom, International Journal of Multicultural Education

History

• Archives for All: Professional Responsibility and Social Justice, Randall C. Jimerson, The American Archivist
• Courage and Social Justice: History Students Engage New York's Immigrant and Refugee Communities, Patricia Moynagh and Lori R. Weintrob, American Historical Association
• Critical Directions for Archival Approaches to Social Justice, Ricardo L. Punzalan and Michelle Caswell, The Library Quarterly
• Whose History is it Anyway?, Ian Johnston, Journal of the Society of Archivists

Humanities & Social Sciences

• Psychology’s Unique Approaches to Social Justice, Key Sun, Association for Psychological Science
• Putting Social Justice into Practice in Psychology Courses, Steven A. Meyers, Association for Psychological Science
• Social Justice Storytelling: Giving our Students More than Just an Education in Speech, Phillip E. Wagner, Discourse: The Journal of the SCASD
• Teaching Social Justice in Counseling Psychology, Sue L. Motulsky, Susan H. Gere, Rakhshanda Saleem, and Sidney M. Trantham

Indigenous Lands

• Indigenous Social Justice Pedagogy: Teaching into the Risks and Cultivating the Heart, Valerie J. Shirley, University of Arizona
• A Native American Approach to Teaching and Learning, Lauen Wakau-Villagomez, D'Youville College
• Teach Standing Rock With Purpose, Teaching Tolerance

STEM

• Overview: How can we promote equity in science education?, STEM Teaching Tools
• The State of Diversity in Environmental Organizations, Dorceta E. Taylor, University of Michigan
• Traversing STEM: Creating Pathways for Social Justice in the United States, Remy Dou, Florida International University
• Social and Environmental Justice in the Chemistry Classroom, Journal of Chemical Education
• STEM Education with a Social Justice Approach, Lynch School of Education, Boston College (YouTube video)

Assessment & Objectives - Outcomes, rubrics, samples

Assessment

• Assessing Social Justice as a Learning Outcome in Honors, Naomi Yavneh Klos, Kendall Eskine, and Michael Pashkevich
• Assessment for social justice: the role of assessment in achieving social justice, Jan McArthur, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
• Experiential Learning for Social Justice Core Assessment Rubric, Santa Clara University
• The Pedagogy of Assignments in Social Justice Teacher Education, Morva A. McDonald, Equity & Excellence in Education

Objectives

• Social Justice Learning Objectives, University of Washington
• Social Justice Program Student Learning Outcomes, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
• Student Learning Outcomes Social Justice Theory and Social Responsibility Praxis, Pitzer College

Sample Syllabi

• Politics of Environmental Justice syllabus, Melissa Harris-Perry, Wake Forest University - Anna Julia Cooper Cente
• Race, Class, and Social Justice Melissa Harris-Perry, Wake Forest University - Anna Julia Cooper Center

Texts

Both CIIA and CEED have books available for check-out at WWU; also catalogued in Western Libraries. See also Journal of Educational Controversy in Western Cedar.

Articles

• Carry the Banner Where It Can Be Seen: Small Wins for Social Justice, Bernice Lott and Kate Webster, Social Justice Research, 2006.
• Social justice and equity issues in the higher education context / Literature analysis and synthesis: Development of a set of social justice principles, Queensland University of Technology, 2009.
• Social Justice and Equity Literature Review & Synopsis, Queensland University of Technology

DisAbility + Justice

• Disability in Higher Education: A Social Justice Approach, by Nancy Evans, Ellen Broido, Kirsten Brown, and Autumn Wilke, 2017.
• Enabling University: Impairment, (Dis)ability and Social Justice in Higher Education, by Tara Brabazon, 2015.
• A Pathway to Access for All: Exploring the Connections Between Universal Instructional Design and Social Justice Education, Heather W. Hackman & Laura Rauscher

Environmental Justice

• Environmental Justice: Concepts, Evidence and Politics, by Gordon Walker, 2012.
• Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement, by Robert Gottlieb, 2005.
• Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism, by Elizabeth Blum, 2008.
• Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, by Rob Nixon, 2013.
• Social Justice, Peace, and Environmental Education: Transformative Standards, by Julie Andrzejewski, Marta Baltodano, and Linda Symcox, 2009.
• Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice, by Julian Agyeman, 2005.
• Sustainability: Approaches to Environmental Justice and Social Power, by Julie Sze, 2019.
• The Myth of Silent Spring: Rethinking the Origins of American Environmentalism, by Chad Montrie, 2019.
• What is Critical Environmental Justice?, by David Naguib Pellow, 2017.

Gender + Justice

• A Guide to Gender (2nd Edition): The Social Justice Advocate's Handbook, by Sam Killermann, 2017.
• Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, 2010.
• Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims, by Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle, 2013.
• Trans* in College: Transgender Students' Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion, by Z Nicolazzo, Stephen John Quaye, 2016.
• Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality, by Sue-Ellen Jacobs and Wesley Thomas, 1997.

Histories

• A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn, 2015.
• Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place, by Coll Thrush, 2017.
• The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, by Linda Gordon, 2001.

Poverty + Social Justice

• Bandwidth Recovery, by Cia Verschelden, 2017.
• One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All, by Mark Robert Rank, 2005.
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paulo Freire and Myra Bergman Ramos, 2000.
• Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America, by Tim Wise, 2015.

Racial Justice

Education & Teaching

• Interrogating Whiteness and Relinquishing Power: White Faculty’s Commitment to Racial Consciousness in STEM Classrooms, edited by Nicole M. Joseph, Chayla Haynes, and Floyd Cobb, 2015.
• Race, Equity, and the Learning Environment: The Global Relevance of Critical and Inclusive Pedagogies in Higher Education, edited by Frank Tuitt, Chayla Haynes, and Saran Stewart, 2016.
• Raising Race Questions: Whiteness and Inquiry in Education, by Ali Michael, 2014.
• Whiteness in Higher Education: The Invisible Missing Link in Diversity and Racial Analyses: ASHE Higher Education Report, by Nolan Cabrera, Jeremy Franklin, and Jesse Watson, 2017.

Politics & History

• Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015.
• Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States, by Carl Zimring, 2017.
• Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity, by Tim Wise, 2010.
• Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America, by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, 2017.
• The Myth of Equality: Uncovering the Roots of Injustice and Privilege, by Ken Wytsma, 2017.
• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele, 2019.
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race, by Beverly Daniel Tatum, 2017.

Reflections

• Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, Second Edition, by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, 2012.
• The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics, by George Lipsitz, 2006.
• What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy, by Robin DiAngelo, 2016.
• White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, by Tim Wise, 2011.
• Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It, by Shelly Tochluk, 2010.

Social Justice Activism

• Do it Anyway: The Next Generation of Activists, by Courtney Martin, 2010.
• Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, by bell hooks, 2014.
• Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, by Angela Y. Davis, Frank Barat, 2016.
• I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, by Malala Yousafzai, 2015.
• Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?, by Michael J. Sandel, 2010.
• We Should All Be Feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2015.

Social Justice Education

General Education

• Becoming a Multicultural Educator: Developing Awareness, Gaining Skills, and Taking Action, by William Howe and Penelope Lisi, 2016.
• Case Studies on Diversity and Social Justice Education, by Paul C. Gorski, Seema G. Pothini, 2019.
• Education at War: The Fight for Students of Color in America's Public Schools, by Arshad Imtiaz and Tracy Buenavista, 2019.
• For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood. and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education, by Christopher Emdin, 2017.
• Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools, by Jonathan Kozol, 1992.
• Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, by Maurianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell, 2016.
• Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotyping Affect Us and What We Can Do, by Claude M. Steele, 2011.

Higher Education

• Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education, by Sonia Nieto and Patty Bode, 2019.
• Intersectionality, by Hill Collins, Patricia and Sirma Bilge, 2016.
• Is Everyone Really Equal?: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education, by Ozlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo, 2017.
• Multiculturalism on Campus: Theory, Models, and Practices for Understanding Diversity and Creating Inclusion, by Michael J. Cuyjet, Chris Linder, 2016.
• Reclaiming the Multicultural Roots of U.S. Curriculum: Communities of Color and Official Knowledge in Education, by Wayne Au, Anthony L. Brown, 2016.
• Teaching Communication Activism: Communication Education for Social Justice, by Lawrence Fray and David Palmer, 2014.
• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, by bell hooks, 1994.

Textbooks

• Social Policy and Social Change: Toward the Creation of Social and Economic Justice, Jimenez, Jillian, Pasztor, Eileen Mayers, Chambers & Fujii, 2014

Social Justice

• Can Education Change Society, Apple, Routledge, 2012.
• Is Everyone Really Equal? An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education, Sensoy, Ozlem, Teachers College Press, 2011
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Freire, Paulo, Continuum, 2000
• Sentipensante (Sensing/Thinking) Pedagogy: Educating for Wholeness, Social Justice and Liberation, Rendon, Stylus Publishing, 2014.
• Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, Adams, Maurianne, et al., Routledge, 2007
• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, Hooks, Routledge, 1994.

Teaching About Privileged Identities

• Helping Students Explore Their Privileged Identities, Association of American Colleges & Universities, 2010.
• Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, edited by Maurianne Adams and Lee Anne Bell, 2017.
• Promoting Diversity and Social Justice: Educating People from Privileged Groups, by Dianne J. Goodman, 2011.
• Privilege, Power, and Difference, by Allan G. Johnson, 2005.
• Privilege: A Reader, by Michael S. Kimmel and Abby L. Ferber, 2016.
• Uprooting Racism - 4th edition: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, by Paul Kivel, 2017.

Theatre + Social Justice

• Cultural Performance: Ethnographic Approaches to Performance Studies, by Kevin Landis and Suzanne Macaulay, 2017.
• Drama and Social Justice: Theory, research and practice in international contexts, by Kelly Freebody and Michael Finneran, 2017.
• Music, Song, Dance, and Theater: Broadway meets Social Justice Youth Community Practice, by Melvin Delgado, 2017.
• Theatre for Community Conflict and Dialogue: The Hope Is Vital Training Manual, by Michael Rohd, 1998.
• Theatre of the Oppressed, by Augusto Boal, 1993.

Leadership in Higher Education

• Advancing Social Justice: Tools, Pedagogies, and Strategies to Transform Your Campus, by Tracy Davis and Laura M. Harrison, 2013.
• Everyday Practices of Social Justice: Examples and Suggestions for Administrators and Practitioners in Higher Education, Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis, 2017.
• Leadership, Equity, and Social Justice in American Higher Education, edited by C.P. Gause, 2017. (in CIIA)
• Why Aren’t We There Yet?: Taking Personal Responsibility for Creating an Inclusive Campus, edited by Jan Arminio, Vasti Torres, and Raechele L. Pope, 2012. - collection of 7 essays about diversity in higher education

Teaching

• Difficult Subjects: Insights and Strategies for Teaching About Race, Sexuality, and Gender, by Badia Ahad-Legardy, 2019
• Readings for Diversity and Social Justice, edited by Maurianne Adams et al, 2013. - bestselling book with over 130 essays; sections dedicated to racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, and ableism, as well as transgender oppression, religious oppression, and adult and ageism
  
• Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, 2016. (already in CIIA Lending Library)
  

Media

Videos

• A Tale of Two Teachers, Melissa Crumb, TedxColumbus
• Creating Conversations on Justice, Dr. Tricia Rose, TEdxBrownUniverisity
• Deconstructing White Privilege, Dr. Robin DiAngelo
• Let's get to the root of racial injustice, Megan Ming Francis
• Social Justice For All: A Lasting Legacy | MLK, Time
• Talks to help you understand social justice, TED Talks-- video playlist on a variety of social justice topics
• The consciousness gap in education - an equity imperative, Dorinda Carter Andrews, TedxLansingEd
• The Future of Race in America, Michelle Alexander
• Vocabulary of Change, Angela Davis and Tim Wise
• We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, TedxEuston

Podcasts

• Find Your Sustain Ability: What does Social Justice have to do with Sustainability?, Appalachian State University
• Feature Guest: Precious Davis, Social Justice Education Network
• How to Navigate Social Justice Issues in the Classroom with Rusul Alrubail, Pushing the Edge
• #Jpspeaks: Social Justice & Inclusion Podcast for Higher Education Professionals, JPHigherEd
• Pushing the Edge Podcast, Greg Curran

WWU Resources

Accessibility and Inclusion Resources

• Accessible Instruction
• Advancing Diversity and Inclusion at Western
• Campus Equity & Inclusion Forum
• DACA Statement - President Randhawa's Statement Regarding the Decision to End DACA
• Diversity at Western
• Diversity Handbook
• Equity & Diversity Committee - Woodring College of Education
• LGBT Advocacy Council
• Minority Employees Council
• Social Justice and Equity Committee - Faculty Senate
• STEM Inclusion & Outreach

Associated Students

• Associated Students Clubs
• Associated Students: Resource and Outreach Programs
• Ethnic Student Center Club
• Disability Outreach Center
• Social Issues Resource Center
• Veterans Outreach Center
• Womxn's Identity Resource Center

Centers and Offices

• Center for Education, Equity, and Diversity (CEED)
• Center for International Studies
• Center for Law, Diversity, and Justice
• Center for Service Learning
• disAbility Services for Staff
• disAbility Resources for Students
• Education Abroad
• Ershig Assistive Technology Resource Center
• Equal Opportunity Office (EOO)
• Ethnic Student Center
• Institute for Global Engagement
• International Student and Scholar Services
• Student Outreach Services

Demographics

• Quick Facts about Western
• WWU Student Diversity Demographics
• WWU Faculty & Staff Demographics

Libraries

• Teaching-Learning Academy
• Western Libraries Guide to Diversity Resources
• Western Libraries Guide for LGBTQ Resources
• Western Libraries Diversity Committee

Programs

• Education and Social Justice Minor
• Law, Diversity & Justice Minor - Fairhaven
• Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Minor