What is the Pedagogy of Justice?
In this short video, FCIP Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy Specialist Justin D. Wright provides a brief introduction to Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy.
Pedagogy of Justice (POJ) is an anti-oppressive approach to teaching and learning that organizes efforts in the direction of institutional and social change, which requires continuous critical self-reflection, lifetime learning, and progressive betterment (or the Jesuit value of Magis). The Pedagogy of Justice is reflective of pedagogical visionaries bell hooks (1952-2021) and Paulo Freire (1921-1997), and their inspired contributions to many fields. This approach is reflective of hooks’ and Freire’s commitment to a liberatory education imbued with the wisdom and experience of everyone involved in the educational endeavor, particularly those on the margins who are often left out of and erased from academia.
Through specific and intentional strategies in- and outside the classroom, POJ seeks to acknowledge and confront the fundamentally racist, colonial, homophobic, gendered, ableist, and transphobic underpinnings of our society and educational systems. POJ is a series of frameworks and processes, grounded in an intersectional approach (an approach rooted in the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, sexuality, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination, disadvantage, or privilege), and operates on the understanding that the societal underpinnings of oppression are systems entrenched in the very structures of our institutions, including our places of higher learning.
The Pedagogy of Justice honors the legacies of hooks and Freire, highlighting the core principles of humility, empathy, love, hope and dialogue to support Loyola instructors in delivering an honest, accessible, and mutually transformative education for our students. This approach contributes to the on-going, global work to inspire the next 100 years of pedagogical innovation in the direction of equity, justice, and freedom.
List of Pedagogies of Justice:
Pedagogy of Justice (POJ) is an anti-oppressive approach to teaching and learning that organizes efforts in the direction of institutional and social change, which requires continuous critical self-reflection, lifetime learning, and progressive betterment (or the Jesuit value of Magis). The Pedagogy of Justice is reflective of pedagogical visionaries bell hooks (1952-2021) and Paulo Freire (1921-1997), and their inspired contributions to many fields. This approach is reflective of hooks’ and Freire’s commitment to a liberatory education imbued with the wisdom and experience of everyone involved in the educational endeavor, particularly those on the margins who are often left out of and erased from academia.
Through specific and intentional strategies in- and outside the classroom, POJ seeks to acknowledge and confront the fundamentally racist, colonial, homophobic, gendered, ableist, and transphobic underpinnings of our society and educational systems. POJ is a series of frameworks and processes, grounded in an intersectional approach (an approach rooted in the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, sexuality, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination, disadvantage, or privilege), and operates on the understanding that the societal underpinnings of oppression are systems entrenched in the very structures of our institutions, including our places of higher learning.
The Pedagogy of Justice honors the legacies of hooks and Freire, highlighting the core principles of humility, empathy, love, hope and dialogue to support Loyola instructors in delivering an honest, accessible, and mutually transformative education for our students. This approach contributes to the on-going, global work to inspire the next 100 years of pedagogical innovation in the direction of equity, justice, and freedom.
List of Pedagogies of Justice: