This 30 credit module, An Introduction to Race, Social Justice and Sustainability, will enable you to develop a critical awareness of processes of race and social justice in education, and how these intersect with education challenges of addressing global environment crisis, and practice into transformations towards sustainable societies.

This level 7 (Masters level) module will develop your critical reflective enquiry skills by engaging with issues and processes of race and social justice in education, addressing the global environmental crisis, and the challenges of large-scale transformations towards sustainable societies.

On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:

• critically explore research, policies, initiatives and processes of race, social, cultural, socio-economic, and socio-technical change and their relations with social justice and sustainability across education.   
• appraise and critically apply key theories, debates, controversies, and policies around social justice, and sustainability and how these intersect with the global environmental and climate crisis.    
• engage with potential educational solutions to complex socio-environmental problems.    
• articulate a critical awareness of the interconnectedness between self, communities, organisations, and systems; the implications for minority and minoritized stakeholders, their agency and voice.

Careers / Further study

This 30 credit module can contribute towards the MA Education (three to five year version and two year version). See the MA Education page for more information.

Content

The module syllabus typically includes:

• Consideration of how processes of social justice intersect with local-global educational approaches towards sustainable societies.
• Critical reflective enquiry into relations with social justice, and sustainability as well as key debates, controversies, and policy areas.
• Investigation of how policy is framed, situated, and contextualised.
• Examination of how practice towards sustainable societies is effective in local-global and situational educational contexts.
• Critical appraisal of SDGs in relation to processes of social justice in education, with consideration of the agency and voice of, and implications for minority and minoritized stakeholders.

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods will include a mix of synchronous and asynchronous activities including webinars, meetings, lectures, readings, tasks and activities alongside independent study and tutor support.

For further information about course content and suitability, please contact Fay Lewis (Fay.Lewis@uwe.ac.uk).

Assessment

Assessment of this module comprises a portfolio of items (equivalent to 5,000 words) which will illustrate critical perspectives on local-global education discourses in policy and practices, and possibilities for effective sustainable practice.

Formative assessment opportunities are available.