Can Social Realism do Social Justice? Debating the Warrants for Curriculum Knowledge Selection

Social justice in medical education: strengths and challenges of a student-driven social justice curriculum.

In the current rapidly evolving healthcare environment of the United States, social justice programs in pre-medical and medical education are needed to cultivate socially conscious and health professionals inclined to interdisciplinary collaborations. To address ongoing healthcare inequalities, medical education must help medical students to become physicians skilled not only in the biomedical ...

Teaching for social justice and social action.

Social justice education involves promoting critical awareness of social inequalities and developing skills that work against these inequalities. This article describes a general theoretical framework for social justice education, describes general strategies for facilitating students' social justice awareness and engagement, identifies challenges to social education, and highlights articles in...

Social Justice in Social Policy

It is claimed that social justice is firmly on the political agenda and is a major concern of numerous policy documents, think tanks and research units. However, ̳social justice‘ can be seen as a poorly defined ̳motherhood and apple pie‘ term. Virtually everyone is in favour of ̳social justice‘ but their interpretations of the term vary widely (there are many different varieties of apple!). We ...

Realism and Social Science

Social Justice Through Civil Justice