Peer Review

Everyday Social Justice

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Reviewed:: Jun 16, 2023 by Sociology

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Overview:

This website focuses on social justice. It has teaching materials to walk through at your own pace or use as a teaching tool or in a group learning setting. Primary course topics are related to how oppressions connect such as the similarities between racism and classism, between sexism an ageism, how ableism affects transphobia, etc.

Type of Material:

Reference Material, Online Course

Recommended Uses:

In class, homework, group, individual, online, hybrid, lecture

Technical Requirements:

Google chrome and Firefox were used to access this material.

Identify Major Learning Goals:

1. Use concepts basic to feminist thought in order to develop new understandings of historical, current, and personally experienced events

2. Articulate ways that systems of power, privilege, and oppression are created and maintained by social cultural forces

3. Recognize the influences that systems of oppression have on diverse women’s lives.

4. Identify and analyze social processes that construct gender roles.

5. Communicate skillfully by writing, speaking, and collaborating.

Target Student Population:

College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

General technology navigation skills.

Content Quality

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Strengths:

Contains a syllabus, content outline, preparatory reading materials, and learning worksheets. Video recordings are available for some units. Materials are geared for lower-division students. Useful worksheets offer opportunities for small group discussion of student ideas, experiences, and interpretation of the readings.

Concerns:

There is a section of the website that is dedicated to teacher resources and resources for those interested in social justice. This appears to include resources from the instructor for the courses offered on the website but most of the resources offered are not linked or not created as of this date.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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Strengths:: There is a large amount of material provided allowing for literature review, active participation, personal reflection, and real-world application.
Concerns:: Instructors using these materials would need accompanied lesson plans for the worksheets and group discussions linking the reading materials and the worksheets.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

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Strengths:

The online learning materials (particularly, worksheets) are relatively easy to use and generally have clear instructions. They are geared for small-group interactive discussion for in-person classes. The material is vast and diverse. It could be used to complete an entire course or to make a specialized course. It can also be used for supplemental purposes to an already created course. The assignment and in class activities are applicable for several areas.

Concerns:

The learning materials need some enhancements related to:

Quality of visual design in order to be more universally accessible for learning (flow of text, section breaks, and so on)
Online version of the PDF formatted worksheets
Ensuring teaching lesson plans are associated with the student worksheets

Certain sections of the website remain incomplete and still under development.

Other Issues and Comments:: This website contains all materials for four online courses in social justice plus a section that is intended to offer online resources for teachers in general and in the social justice field. This section is primarily a list of writings completed by the course instructor and website owner. I opted to review one of the online classes and not the whole site for that reason.
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