Current Members:

Hugh Busher, Carmen Mohamed, Ingrid Spencer, Saeeda Shah, Joan Smith
Contact Person:  Joan Smith (jms32@le.ac.uk)

Scope and Purpose:

This special Interest group is concerned with the complex and multi-faceted relationship between social justice and education at national, local, institutional and personal levels.

We intend to:

• Share our discussions about this and their outcomes within and beyond the special interest group members in order to help people develop more socially just practices in schools and communities.
• Develop viable research projects with and disseminate their findings to the broader educational community locally and nationally.

Our main aims are on the analysis and investigation of notions of social justice and injustice in education from the perspectives of teachers, other classroom-focused staff and learners, developing theoretical understandings of the concept of social justice and what conceptions of social justice can useful be applied to a study of education, contributing to the evaluation of research methodologies for investigating social justice, and provide an arena for debate, discussion and dissemination for researchers and practitioners whose work addresses social justice issues and fostering emancipatory approaches to research and education, including student voice, and consider the impact of these on the practices of classroom-based staff and learners.

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