I think the part on social justice is very relavent for me and all people who want to become educators. Many students know that things in their life arent always as easy as others who live 20 minutes away. One of my homeworks assignments dealt with the careers the students want to pursue and the costs and benefits to getting the job. It surprised me when one student wrote about getting a good job because she wanted to move out of her violent neighborhood and move into a peaceful neighborhood. Students inmany of our classes are aware of social inequalities that exist in our society.
I believe that as educators, we should help bring explanation and reasoning to many of these inequalities. That is why I like the idea of using Problem Based Learning so students arent just told about problems by their teachers, they go investigate and see with their own eyes, the problems that exist in theri own neighborhoods. I tthink that problem based learning is more meaningful to students than a normal old lecture.