‘Knowledge’, curriculum and social justice

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 ...

Social Justice Through Civil Justice

Finding "Diversity Levers" in the Core Library and Information Science Curriculum: A Social Justice Imperative

In this exploratory study, the researchers examined the core library and information science (LIS) curriculum, looking for diversity levers , or conceptual access points, where transformative academic knowledge related to diversity and social justice could be meaningfully integrated. Multicultural curriculum reform, conceptualized as a social justice approach, was the guiding framework for the ...

Engineering and Social Justice

Health and social justice.

Theories of social justice applied to health care have typically focused on justifying health care (medicine and public health) as a special social good. Rationalizing greater equality in health care is typically the point of departure for most approaches to medical ethics, even those that include health assessment. In general, these approaches have paid relatively little attention to universal...