Justice in and through education? Students’ participation in decision-making

Abstract: Drawing on one year of ethnographic work in three Swedish lower secondary schools, this article problematizes students’ participation in decision-making in everyday school life in the perspective of social justice. In order to extend the traditional liberal understanding of justice and include also relational, procedurial, social and cultural aspects of justice, the analysis focuses on the range, depth and breadth of the participation. The analysis highlights how students’ participation in decision-making was curtailed and restricted in ways that referred to both the range and the depth of the participation. There were also deficiencies as regards the breadth.  The analysis indicates inconveniences as regards students’ participation in decision-making in the perspective of social justice. At the same time it raises questions about social justice in educational contexts – to what extent is it possible to reach a social just school and classroom culture? Based on this analy.... http://www.jsse.org/index.php/jsse/article/view/695

Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Justice in and through education? Students’ participation in decision-making ; volume:13 ; number:2 ; day:07 ; month:04 ; year:2014
Journal of social science education ; 13, Heft 2 (07.04.2014)

Creator
Rönnlund, Maria

DOI
10.4119/jsse-695
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019011816310244558890
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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