Transferring Social Justice Initiatives into Lasallian Schools

Social Justice Through Civil Justice

Teaching For Social Justice: Teachers Inquire Into Their Practice

Over the years, each of us has been engaged in various teaching and research projects that focus on social justice concerns. Teaching with social justice at its heart highlights the importance of the teacher’s role in imagining and working towards a more equitable society. We began to talk about (to echo Tripp) our “own sense of justice and equality” some years ago. The occasion for our convers...

Values and Restorative Justice in Schools

Morris and Young conclude their essay in this collection recognizing that punishment processes and practices are a reflection of the sort of society we are and want to be. The connection between punishment institutions and a society's values extends from the macro level discussed by Morris and Young to the micro level where connections are mirrored in the belief systems of ordinary people. The ...

Corporate Social Initiatives

I n recent years, few notions have so fully captured the corporate imagination as that of corporate social responsibility (CSR), defined broadly as a company’s “status and activities with respect to its perceived societal or, at least, stakeholder obligations.” While CSR is by no means a new idea, more companies than ever before are backing CSR initiatives such as corporate philanthropy, cause-...

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 ...