Doing Social Justice Education

“This work provides an essential contribution on how to design, facilitate, and assess social justice education workshops. It is a timely and practical addition to the literature for educators seeking to develop workshop and structured conversations related to power, privilege, and social identity. The authors’ emphasis on theoretical grounding, facilitation as a process, and self-reflection will help provide current and aspiring social justice educators with a structure they can utilize across a variety of co-curricular contexts.”

Robert Brown, Director of Social Justice Education - Northwestern University

Foreword—Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part One: A Process to Design, Facilitate, and Assess Social Justice Education Workshops and Structured Conversations
1) Contextual Influences
2) Theories and Conceptual Frameworks
3) Cultural Consciousness and Learning Outcomes
4) Pedagogical Considerations and Selecting Activities
5) Facilitation
6) Assessing Student Learning
7) Considerations for Online Experiences

Part Two: Examples of Applying this Process to Social Justice Education Workshops and Structured Conversations
8) Introductory Diversity Workshop at Large Midwestern University (LMU)
9) Racial Literacy Dialogue for Small Liberal Arts College (SLAC)
10) Social Inequality Workshop for Regional Teacher Nonprofit (RTN)

Conclusion: Ensuring Social Justice and Advancing Education
Appendix: Annotated List of Activities
References
Index

D. Scott Tharp

D. Scott Tharp, Ph.D., M.S.W., has worked in higher education for over ten years with a focus on social justice education, learning assessment, and program evaluation. As a scholar-practitioner, his research focuses on all aspects of social justice education, including curriculum design, facilitation, and assessment. He currently serves the DePaul University community as the Assessment & Effectiveness Specialist for the Division of Student Affairs. Previously, Dr. Tharp served DePaul as Associate Director within the former Center for Intercultural Programs where he oversaw the Center's curricular social justice education program and workshop initiatives, created and facilitated diversity and social justice education workshops for students, faculty, staff, and community partners, and coordinated a new online education initiative. Before that, Dr. Tharp served as the Program Coordinator in the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs at Columbia College Chicago.

Dr. Tharp is an active scholar-practitioner who has published articles in the Journal of Transformative Education, Multicultural Education, Multicultural Perspectives, Change Magazine, About Campus Magazine, and Diverse: Issues in Higher Education Magazine. He is a member of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) and an invited speaker at NCORE - the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education. He also served on the National Advisory Committee for NCORE from 2014-2017.

Roger A. Moreano

Roger A. Moreano is the assistant dean of students, director of equity and inclusion, and the codirector of the Equity and Inclusion Committee at Carthage College.

Handouts

Video - Scott Tharp and Roger Moreano on "Doing Social Justice Education"

Blog post - It's Critical to Assess Social Justice Programs

Webinar - The "What" and the "Why" of Doing Social Justice Education