A Case for Disciplinary Literacies That Support Civic Engagement and Social Justice

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-214
Author(s):  
Enid M. Rosario‐Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Disciplinary Literacies

Civic Engagement, Social Justice, and Media Literacy

2020 ◽  
pp. 272-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srividya “Srivi” Ramasubramanian ◽  
Ramin Chaboki Darzabi
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Media Literacy

“A Cult of Cookie Bakers”: The Spiritual Qualities of Youth Social Justice Organization Free the Children

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 462-482
Author(s):  
Emma Funnell-Kononuk ◽  
Sharday Mosurinjohn
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Phenomenological Experience ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Spiritual Movement ◽  
Individual Self

This article analyzes the growing youth social justice initiative Free the Children/ME to WE as a kind of “spiritual movement” by demonstrating how the discourses utilized by participants and authorities resemble both the discourse of self-spirituality, as found among actual millennials, and the discourse of youth spirituality found in the developmental sciences literature. Building on previous research in which we characterized this family of organizations as a “new secular spiritual movement,” (Mosurinjohn and Funnell-Kononuk, 2017). we situate the phenomenological experience of its distinctive “WE spirituality” in the landscape of contemporary Western spirituality. Following on arguments that the politics of self-spirituality are more social change-oriented than previously acknowledged, we illuminate the logics of a spiritual movement that develops the “me” of the individual self into a part of the “we” of an imagined global community, by making spirituality coextensive with social civic engagement.

scholarly journals A Time for Hope in Dark Times

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Giroux ◽  
Ourania Filippakou
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
The Political ◽  
Realistic Assessment ◽  
Democratic Imaginary

This article explores the political importance of embracing a notion of hope in a time of growing authoritarianism across the globe. It defines hope as the ability to both mobilize what might be called a democratic imaginary and a notion of hope rooted in a realistic assessment of what it means to engage in forms of struggle for economic and social justice, both pedagogically and politically. We argue that hope is the bases for agency and that without hope, there is no agency of possibility of civic engagement and struggle.

What kind of (digital) citizen?

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 342-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie K. Heath
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Educational Technology ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Digital Citizenship ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Constant Comparative Analysis

Purpose Public schools in a democracy should educate young people to develop the knowledge and dispositions of citizenship in order to foster a more inclusive society and ensure the continuation of the democratic republic. Conceptualizations of citizenship must be clearly framed in order to support civic engagement, in particular, civic engagement for social justice. Rarely do educational technology scholars or educators interrogate the International Society for Technology in Education definition of digital citizenship. Educational technologists should connect notions of civic engagement and conceptions of digital citizenship. Instead, the field continues to engage in research, policy and practice which disconnects these ideas. This suggests that a gap exists between educational technologists’ conceptualizations of citizenship and the larger implications of citizenship within a democracy. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses a between-study analysis of the literature to answer: How does the field of educational technology discuss and research digital citizenship? The data were coded using constant comparative analysis. The study adopted a theoretical framework grounded in Westheimer and Kahne’s (2004) What Kind of Citizen, and Krutka and Carpenter’s (2016) digital approach to citizenship. Findings The findings suggest that educational technologists’ uncritical usage of the term digital citizenship limits the authors’ field’s ability to contribute to a fundamental purpose of public schooling in a democracy – to develop citizens. Further, it hampers imagining opportunities to use educational technology to develop pedagogies of engaged citizenship for social justice. Originality/value Reframing the conception of digital citizenship as active civic engagement for social justice pushes scholarship, and its attendant implications for practice, in a proactive direction aimed at dismantling oppression.

Researching Bears Ears: reference practice for civic engagement

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-61
Author(s):  
Amy Brunvand
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Citizen Activism ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Reference Librarians ◽  
Civic Dialogue ◽  
Government Planning

Purpose The purpose of this study is to describe practical, generalizable competencies for reference librarians to promote civic engagement and social justice while assisting with politicized queries. Design/methodology/approach Working through an example of tension between land development and protection of an indigenous sacred place illustrates reference strategies that model an ideally inclusive community dialogue. Findings To promote civic engagement, librarians have a role to teach basic civics and to help identify opportunities for public comments and other “leverage points” in a system. An information trail for civic engagement is generated though an interaction between government planning, industry lobbying and citizen activism; it is supported by online and gray literature sources that typically fall outside of typical library collections and databases. A way to grapple with contentious and distorting political claims is to model ideal stakeholder inclusivity, a strategy that also helps to bring marginalized voices into the civic dialogue. Sources from the humanities express cultural and spiritual considerations that are absent from typical political discourse. Research limitations/implications Strategies are based on experience as a staff writer for a community magazine. Practical implications Specific strategies and competencies promote civic engagement during the time period allowed by a typical extended reference dialogue. Social implications An overly sunny view of community problem-solving glosses over some messy realities. To promote civic engagement, librarians must develop competencies to help citizens grapple with marginalization and distorting claims. Originality/value Calls to promote civic engagement and social justice in libraries require librarians to develop new competencies. Working through a case study illustrates specific knowledge and reference practices that support strong democracy.

Developing Faith in a More Civil Society

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa L. Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Charitable Organizations ◽  
Religiously Affiliated ◽  
Welfare Work ◽  
Different Types ◽  
State Organizations

This chapter examines the ambiguous role of religiously affiliated charitable organizations within the field of social justice work in Russia and how these organizations promote new ethics and practices of humaneness, civility, and civic engagement in their social welfare work. Specifically, religiously affiliated charitable organizations creatively play with both the official and unofficial criteria and terminology for different types of organizations and assistance – development, charity, humanitarianism, nongovernmental, religious, and secular – in ways that enable them to work both outside and alongside state organizations. In so doing, not only do they trouble distinctions between secular and religious, state and non-state, governmental and nongovernmental, but they also contribute to a different form of civil society and civil activism in Russia.

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