Educators for Social Justice’s Weblog

Educators for Social Justice (ESJ) is a student group at the University of Washington-Seattle that advocates awareness, understanding, and action around issues of social justice within the College of Education, the field of education, and beyond.

Our goals are to promote and advocate for multiculturalism throughout the UW College of Education, increase the ethnic and racial diversity of educators who work in common schools, colleges, and universities, and build a supportive, fun, and dynamic College of Education community.

Social Justice

There is little question that social justice is a contested concept; it has ideological fluidity. While ideologically fluid, the language of social justice is connected to intellectual traditions and social and political movements (both left and liberal) that struggle against racism, class inequality, gender discrimination, environmental destruction, and a host of other social ills. Social justice is not simply about increasing numbers so as to be diverse; social justice is about fighting oppressive ideas and institutions and creating substantive social change.