Psychometric properties of the Social Justice Representations (SJR) Scale

ETCHEZAHAR, EDGARDO; BARREIRO, ALICIA; JACOTT, LILIANA; MALDONADO, ANTONIO

Madrid

Simposio; Cice Association Conference 2016: Education, Citizenship and Social Justice. Innovation Practices and Research; 2016

Grupo de Investigación Cambio Educativo para la Justicia Social (GICE), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Formación de Profesorado y Educación

This symposium is devoted to present different contributions carried out mainly by a group of researchers from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (GICE), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas and Universidad Complutense de Madrid to the study of the relationship between citizenship and social justice. Some of the work presented here are part of a research project that is being carried out by our interdisciplinary research group (GICE: Educational Change for Social Justice) ?Schools in socio-economically challenging contexts: An approach from Education for Social Justice? (EDU2014-56118-P), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the State Program for the Promotion of Scientific and Technical Research Excellence. The studies presented here share a common theoretical framework of social justice based on the three dimensions proposed by Fraser (2008): Redistribution, Recognition and Participation, and also in the work developed by Amartya Sen (1999) and Martha Nussbaum (2003, 2011) in relation to the capabilities approach. Our main objective is to contribute to the development of a theoretical discussion based also on empirical research for the analysis and development of this approach to social justice in education. Along with this, from our point of view is essential to discuss the importance of developing social justice oriented citizens, understood as those citizens who participate actively and critically as agents of change in the system that is causing and reproducing inequalities and injustices in the world we live today (Westheimer, 2015). The papers presented in this symposium include a theoretical analysis about this social justice framework and different reflections on citizenship issues. We also include some studies of the representations of citizenship and social justice by primary and secondary students, and training and expert teachers, using different methodologies such as specific questionnaires based on dilemmas and interviews.