Developing an Education Planning Tool to Create the Conditions for Social Justice in a Global Village

Abstract

This chapter argues that inequality seems to impact on virtually every society in the world. Schools seem to reproduce inequality and in some countries in the world poor communities have been reproduced for over more than a century. It calls for a more egalitarian society that is based on developing programmes that reduce inequality. The chapter confronts the issue of inequality facing most countries and calls for changing education systems since education can become an important catalyst for change. Most education systems have been captured by politics and global ideas of accumulating wealth whilst the policy remains irrelevant and useless to the poor. The chapter makes a case for a social justice model in education that influences every decision in terms of planning and operationalizing education. The chapter emphasizes the need for changing theoretical frameworks and practices that are committed to asking questions about what is best for developing the conditions for social justice. How can we plan and develop programmes that will ensure spending and planning is in the best interests of all sectors of society mainly the poor. Finally the chapter argues that the status quo should be ruptured in the interests of creating the conditions a just social order in terms of planning and implementing education policy.KeywordsChanging schoolsCultural reproductionEducation reformsGlobalizationInequalitySocial justice