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Individual Exploration: What is Social Justice? Why is it important for our classrooms?

I did a bit of research on different websites for this weeks assignment, but this was one of my favorites that I came across. 
https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/social-justice-resources/

This is a blog post that was created by a woman named Jennifer Gonzalez back in 2016. This website is full of many things, however two things really jumped out at me. The first is her blog that you can navigate to through the site. She has been writing since 2013 about pedagogy and social justice topics and so there are endless amounts of reading that can be done. She also had a really cool place where you could submit your email, and she will email you a weekly email about how to improve your teaching through social justice and pedagogy. I submitted mine, so I am interested to get my first email and see what it is all about. 

The second part that really jumped out to me was her specific post that I listed the URL for above. It was titled "A Collection of Resources for Teaching Social Justice". There are many resources that are provided for teachers to continue their research with at the end of the blog post which is cool. Jenn spends a lot of time defining pedagogy, defining social justice, and explaining how the two fit into the classroom and into improving education and our knowledge as teachers about education. One thing she pointed out was that it is easiest for social studies teachers to incorporate social justice into the classroom because the topics are so closely related, whereas many teachers in other content areas find it hard or it scares them and so they just choose not to bring it into their classroom which I think is really wrong. Pushing kids to talk about such topics even is incredibly important for their growth as individuals. And then on the other hand of that as well, I think that teachers need to push themselves to fully understand social justice issues within their classrooms and learn how to approach them in appropriate ways. But anyways, this blog gives so much helpful advice to teachers as well as provides links to all sorts of videos and resources that teachers could find helpful, so I highly encourage you check it out! 

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