{"id":9,"date":"2022-01-11T16:59:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/sjtc\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2025-03-17T12:14:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T16:14:56","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/sjtc\/","title":{"rendered":"Who We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <em>Social Justice Teaching Collaborative<\/em> (SJTC) began in fall 2017, funded initially through an EHS Interdisciplinary Teaching and Curriculum Grant. Expanding from this beginning, the name and faculty membership has evolved since then.&nbsp; This collaborative involves faculty across the division who teach courses that the majority of EHS majors take in their teacher preparation, health and wellness, and family science and social work programs at Miami University.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/sjtc\/files\/2022\/01\/SJTC-Visual-1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" height=\"494\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/sjtc\/files\/2022\/01\/SJTC-Visual-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have published qualitative and mixed-methods research that considers how our curricular and teaching collaborations impact students\u2019 understanding of social justice issues in education. Our research question is: \u201cHow does an interdisciplinary curriculum focused on social justice in pre-service teacher education impact students\u2019 understanding about issues of diversity and social justice?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Banda, R. M., Reyes, G., Wronowski, M., Radina, R., Aronson, B., &amp; Batchelor, K. (2025). A Path Forward: A Critical Race Mixed-Methods Study of Social Justice Teacher Education. <em>The Teacher Educator<\/em>, <em>60<\/em>(1), 151-173.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wronowski, M. L., Aronson, B., Reyes, G., Radina, R., Batchelor, K. E., Banda, R. M., &amp; Rind, G. (2023). Moving toward a comprehensive program of critical social justice teacher education: A QuantCrit analysis of preservice teachers\u2019 perceptions of social justice education. <em>The Teacher Educator<\/em>, <em>58<\/em>(2), 217-243.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aronson, B. A., Banda, R., Johnson, A., Kelly, M., Radina, R., Reyes, G., &#8230; &amp; Wronowski, M. (2020). The social justice teaching collaborative: A collective turn towards critical teacher education. <em>Journal of Curriculum Studies Research<\/em>, <em>2<\/em>(2), 21-39.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our hope is to begin a center or lab to support new, exciting work in three areas: 1) Teaching, 2) Research &amp; Scholarship, and 3) Support and Mentorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"42\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/sjtc\/files\/2022\/01\/image-1024x42.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/sjtc\/files\/2022\/01\/image-1024x42.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/sjtc\/files\/2022\/01\/image-300x12.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/sjtc\/files\/2022\/01\/image-768x31.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/sjtc\/files\/2022\/01\/image-624x26.png 624w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/sjtc\/files\/2022\/01\/image.png 1466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-gray-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Miami University carries the name of the Myaamia people who, along with the Shawnee, were forcibly removed from these homelands. Despite centuries of colonization, the Myaamia people preserve a deep connection to this land and are engaged in a vibrant resurgence of their heritage language and culture.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-gray-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The university maintains a strong reciprocal relationship with the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma grounded in our shared commitment to learning and each other.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-gray-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/miamioh.edu\/diversity-inclusion\/land\/index.html\">Read Miami University\u2019s Land Acknowledgement<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Justice Teaching Collaborative (SJTC) began in fall 2017, funded initially through an EHS Interdisciplinary Teaching and Curriculum Grant. 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