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In the past few years I have watched with interest as the theme “social justiceeducation” became visible in more than a few progressive education journals and meetings that resisted the neoliberalization and globalization of education and of policy. Over time, however, I worry about what it means that social justice is declared from such disparate places as conservative government education documents, activist networks, international institutions, and even a few corporations that name social justice in their efforts to project images of sustainability
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Shultz, L. (2012). Decolonizing Social Justice Education. In: Abdi, A.A. (eds) Decolonizing Philosophies of Education. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-687-8_3
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