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This chapter explores fluidity of the social justice educators’ subjectivities and shows their evolution. It reveals that social justice educators were born disinclined toward social justice education; however, personal and professional experiences, and social and global events led to their consciousness about social injustices in general and particularly in education. Their narratives reveal that elevation of consciousness led to a deliberate effort to teach and educate for social justice education as part of their activism. Reflection questions at the end of the chapter position readers as possible agents of change and invite them to be deliberate in acting toward social justice education.
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Mthethwa-Sommers, S. (2014). Fluidity of Perspective. In: Narratives of Social Justice Educators. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08431-2_9
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