Social justice for and through sustainable learning environments
Published Article === If our intention as parents, educators, educationists, researchers and community members is to create sustainability in the learning environments, then social justice is where we should start and where we should aim. Social justice implies that learners and teachers have to be...
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ndltd-netd.ac.za-oai-union.ndltd.org-cut-oai-ir.cut.ac.za-11462-6092016-03-16T03:59:04Z Social justice for and through sustainable learning environments Mahlomaholo, Sechaba M.G. Molebatsi, Milton M. Francis, Dennis Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein Published Article If our intention as parents, educators, educationists, researchers and community members is to create sustainability in the learning environments, then social justice is where we should start and where we should aim. Social justice implies that learners and teachers have to be treated fairly and with respect in terms of the distribution of educational and other supportive resources. It furthermore implies that teachers also have to be treated fairly and justly. Thus respect, mutual validation and beneficiation among all participants have to inform the relationships within such learning environments for them to be sustainable and free of inequities, strive, desperation, marginalisation, oppression and depression to mention a few. The above definitely lead to a socially just and democratic citizenry which is the outcome which all nations, especially ours, aspire for. 2015-10-02T10:16:32Z 2015-10-02T10:16:32Z 2012 2012 Article 16844998 http://hdl.handle.net/11462/609 en_US Journal for New Generation Sciences;Vol 10, Issue 2 Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein 47 051 bytes, 1 file Application/PDF Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 10, Issue 2: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein |
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Published Article === If our intention as parents, educators, educationists, researchers and community members is to create sustainability in the learning environments, then social justice is where we should start and where we should aim. Social justice implies that learners and teachers have to be treated fairly and with respect in terms of the distribution of educational and other supportive resources. It furthermore implies that teachers also have to be treated fairly and justly. Thus respect, mutual validation and beneficiation among all participants have to inform the relationships within such learning environments for them to be sustainable and free of inequities, strive, desperation, marginalisation, oppression and depression to mention a few. The above definitely lead to a socially just and democratic citizenry which is the outcome which all nations, especially ours, aspire for. |
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