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    The document is a reading reflection that discusses two articles about social justice education. The first article by Heather Hackman outlines five key components for effective social justice teaching: content mastery, critical thinking, action and social change, personal reflection, and awareness of multicultural group dynamics. The second article is an educator's blog post about teaching Kendrick Lamar's album to encourage students to think critically about their connection to society. While the author agrees the articles make good arguments for social justice education, they question only focusing on race and believe more evidence is needed, such as from students and teachers, to show its impact given that previous research indicates familial background has the largest influence on students.

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    The document is a reading reflection that discusses two articles about social justice education. The first article by Heather Hackman outlines five key components for effective social justice teaching: content mastery, critical thinking, action and social change, personal reflection, and awareness of multicultural group dynamics. The second article is an educator's blog post about teaching Kendrick Lamar's album to encourage students to think critically about their connection to society. While the author agrees the articles make good arguments for social justice education, they question only focusing on race and believe more evidence is needed, such as from students and teachers, to show its impact given that previous research indicates familial background has the largest influence on students.

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    Kandice Howland

    LBS 203
    Jen Stacy
    March 9, 2016

    Reading Reflection #6: Social Justice Education

    In Five Essential Components for Social Justice Education, Heather Hackmans article

    tells about tools for content mastery, critical thinking, action and social change, personal

    reflection, and awareness of multicultural group dynamics, which are the five key components

    effective teachers can use to articulate their teaching and to empower students such as educator

    Brian Mooney, who demonstrates this in his blog article titledWhy I Dropped Everything and

    Started Teaching Kendrick Lamars New Album. Each author explains that when students learn

    about self-identity, think critically, analyze, and reflect about their connection to society, it

    encourages them to take action in places of oppression and that when the opportunity is missed,

    how it defeats the purpose of empowerment and social change (Hackman, 2005). Mooney

    commented by saying I would have missed a chance to develop a set of profound connections to

    a popular culture text that is part of their lives, showing how important the role of social justice

    education really is (Mooney, 2015).

    Hackman and Mooney bring good arguments to the table, yet I think that they target race

    and not just group dynamics (Hackman, 2005). In my opinion, many authors and educators

    today do not reflect upon the idea that if we do not talk about the issue of race in schools and its

    impact on society, it is possible that people would not feel as targeted or unequal.

    Understandably so, Hackman said effective teaching for social justice involves understanding

    group dynamics...and socially constructed identities of the teacher and students but in order to
    claim this as valid, Hackman needs more support from students and teachers themselves, such as

    Mooney, along with statistics in order to show the impact of social justice education. Because

    based on previous readings, such as Dana Goldsteins The Teacher Wars (2014), familial

    background had the most impact upon a student.

    Goldstein, D. (2014). The teacher wars. New York: Penguin Random House LLC.

    Hackman, H.W. (2005). Five essential components for social justice education. Equity &

    Excellence in Education, 38, Pp. 103-109.

    Mooney, B. (March 27, 2015). Why I dropped everything and started teaching Kendrick

    Lamars new album. Web. Retrieved from http://bemoons.wordpress.com

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