... and social justice education are highlighted in this article. Findings Instructional strategies emphasizing urban learners’ funds of knowledge and teachers’ critical and higher order thinking supported teachers’ development of SPC, though most teachers’ demonstrated emergent rather than advanced levels...

... with their K-12th grade students. Originality/value While many studies look at how teacher education programs integrate social justice education into their programs, few researchers follow their students into the K-12 classrooms to investigate if teachers are connecting higher education course work...

.... The projects were analyzed to determine the extent to which, if any, social justice education has been addressed. Design/methodology/approach This study used purposive sampling of two sections of an elementary writing methods course. Students were grouped into Professional Learning Communities (PLCs...

... be a priority in teacher education (Banks, 2013; Convertino, 2016). This has been explored in other studies, particularly in studies of merging – or emphasizing – multicultural and social justice education and curricula (Cho, 2017; Lawyer, 2018; Sleeter, 2018 ). What sets this study apart, and what needs...