Case Studies on Diversity and Social Justice Education (2nd ed.)
By Paul Gorksi and Seema Pothini (Routledge, 2018)
In this book, authors Paul Gorski and Seema Pothini offer an equity literacy framework that is a helpful way to critically analyze and detect inequity, consider multiple perspectives, and generate steps to become what they describe as “a threat to inequity.”
They provide multiple scenarios that span elementary through secondary school contexts with which to practice the framework. Each scenario ends with discussion questions. The topics are current, relevant, complex, and thought-provoking, addressing such issues as Black Lives Matter, body-shaming, and transgender oppression. They present everyday examples of the ways racism, sexism, homophobia and heterosexism, class inequities, language bias, religious-based oppression, and other equity and diversity concerns affect students, teachers, families, and other members of our school communities.
Finally, each chapter concludes with notes for facilitators called “Points for Consideration” that provide useful insight for discussion on the complex facets of each case.
This article appears in the December 2023/January 2024 issue of Kappan, Vol. 105, No. 4, p. 7.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ferial Pearson
FERIAL PEARSON is an assistant professor of teacher education at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
