Social Justice Education in Canada

Ali A. Abdi is a Professor of Social Development Education at the University of British Columbia. His areas of research and teaching include human rights and critical citizenship education, social and cultural foundations of education, anticolonial education, and epistemic decolonization.

"This book highlights key discussions in education that are timely and necessary. Social Justice Education in Canada not only re-examines the underlying structures of society but also advocates for a more inclusive society that addresses the inequitable power dynamics that exist. The authors provide relevant examples that confront the idea that social justice is just an abstract concept, rather they argue that social justice is at the heart of what education needs to be."—Aaron Stout, Instructor, Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge"Social Justice Education in Canada: Select Perspectives makes a timely and necessary contribution to the pressing, and often neglected, issues of equity in education from critical and multi-dimensional perspectives. The contributions address multiple marginalizations, going beyond limited understandings of 'multiculturalism' to more expanded and progressive notions of social justice. The book provides both systems-level and experiential analyses, opening up multiple avenues for understanding and inquiry. An extremely valuable contribution to assessing and re-assessing education in Canada."—Prachi Srivastava, Associate Professor, Education and Global Development, Western University"Social justice is a veritable floating signifier, and it is therefore particularly illustrative and apt that Social Justice Education in Canada: Select Perspectives involves an eclectic set of issues and approaches addressed by an interesting mix of seasoned, authoritative figures and exciting new voices. Without pretense to being exhaustive or definitive, this collection nevertheless epitomizes the comprehensive and necessarily diverse set of approaches to anti-oppression education that is making for just representation, equity, and inclusion in and through education in the Canadian context."—Handel Kashope Wright, Professor and Director, Centre for Culture, Identity and Education, University of British Columbia

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1: Social Justice Education in Canada: An Introduction - Ali A. AbdiChapter 2: Critical Multicultural Education as a Platform for Social Justice Education in Canada - Ratna GhoshChapter 3: Educating Against Anti-Black/Anti-African Canadian Racism - George J.S. Dei and Claudette Howell RutherfordChapter 4: On Decolonial Thought and Writing Black Life - Marlon SimmonsChapter 5: A Duoethnographic Perspective on Supporting Muslim Children, Youth, and Their Families in Canadian Schools - Antoinette Gagné and Dania WattarChapter 6: The Islamic Call to Prayer Broadcast as Public Pedagogy in Canada: Critical Perspectives - Sameena EidooChapter 7: Social Justice through Indigenization and Anti-Oppressive Teaching - Anna-Leah KingChapter 8: Post-Secondary Education's Chronic Problem (It's About Time) - Alison Taylor and Robyn Taylor-NeuChapter 9: Critical Pedagogy in Teacher Education: Disrupting Teacher Candidates' Deficit Thinking of Immigrant Students with Origins in the Global South - Yan GuoChapter 10: Cultural Capital Re/constructions and the Education of Minoritized Youth - Dan Cui and Ali A. AbdiChapter 11: Challenging Normalized Ableism In/Through Teacher Education - Bathseba Opini and Levonne AbshireChapter 12: For Goodness' Sake! Teaching Global Citizenship in Canada with a Critical Ethic of Care - Rae Ann S. Van BeersChapter 13: Education for Refugee Learners under the Framework of Social Justice and Racial Equity - Neda AsadiChapter 14: Interrogating Equity Issues on Inclusive Postsecondary Education for Refugees and New Immigrants in Canada - Michael KariwoEpilogue - Edward ShizhaContributor BiographiesIndex