Social Justice in Education – Ideas and Comments

On the first lecture we discussed our own definitions of social justice. In our group everyone had experienced issues regarding social justice in the education system. This was rather expected – it is, after all, the topic of the course. However, something was not expected: majority of these experiences were within University! Quite shocking.

Segregation based on language, educational background or ethnicity came up. What we found especially worrying, and to some degree interesting too, was the fact that discrimination was initiated by professors, and not by students. A practical example: multilingual university courses are divided into workgroups based on mother tongue. We felt that such a choice should be made by students and by no means by professors. The vast majority of Swedish-speaking Finns can communicate in Finnish and could maybe see the workgroups as a good learning opportunity. The same goes for Finnish-speaking Finns.

Further on, we found that professors often set unjust prejudices against students based on their educational background. The experience discussed was about minor studies done in a different university. There a professor made a clear distinction between students from different majors. Stereotypes were mentioned as facts, but based only on the professor’s previous personal experience without any knowledge on the students in question or their ways of studying. However, we think that such distinction should not be made at all. Instead, everyone should be treated equally, without preconceptions initiated by professors.

Lastly, discrimination based on ethnicity can happen camouflaged in “positive” encouragement. Should students from different ethnic backgrounds be treated exactly the same as students from the “majority”? In the experience we discussed, a pupil was demanded on participating on a PE class just as the others did. Just that it was a skiing class, and the pupil in question had probably never even seen snow before. Here a question is raised: is absolute inclusion always fair? Would it be discrimination against majority to allow alternatives? Or would it be discrimination against minorities to demand for absolute uniformity?

//Group C

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64 thoughts on “Social Justice in Education – Ideas and Comments”

  1. In your blog post you raised quite a few important and interesting questions. Is absolute inclusion always just? Would it be discrimination against majority to allow alternatives or would it be discrimination against minorities to demand absolute uniformity? These questions generated more questions and we started to think that can absolute in anything ever be just? If we deny alternatives, doesn’t it simplify the plurality that lies in the core of social justice? /Group D

  2. Thanks, group C!

    I read this post already a week ago, but only now started commenting. In this opening post you reflected and pondered the topic of the lecture. I liked the ‘flow-of-thought’ style of the post. I agree with group D on the interesting points you raised. That ‘positive encouragement’ is a very tricky issue that often provokes quite passionate statements.

    Looking forward to reading more of your thoughts throughout the course.

    -Iida

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