DPLS 705sp10 Leadership and Social Justice
DPLS 705 - Leadership and Social Justice
Spring 2010 3 Credits
Professor: David Whitfield, EdD.
Class Logistics
Home Phone: 360. 866. 9794
Room: T108
Email: david@learnleadcoach.com; or
Saturday Mornings; 8-12-noon
Class dates: Jan 16, Jan 30, Feb 6, Feb 20, Mar 6, Mar 20, Mar 27, Apr 10
Office Hours: By appointment
REQUIRED TEXTS
Hayek, F. A. (1976). Law, legislation and liberty: Vol. 2. The mirage of social justice. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
Holland, J. (2006). Misogyny: The world's oldest prejudice. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers.
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Rawls, J. (1999). A theory of social justice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Sandel, M. J. (Ed.) (2007). Justice: A reader. New York: Oxford University Press.
Sen, A. (2009). The idea of justice. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
1. Explain the meaning of social justice in a societal and leadership framework, to include relevant principles.
2. Know the factors that affect the definition, application, and administration of social justice.
3. Expand knowledge of local and global social justice issues.
4. Know, explain, and apply the different types of social justice as it relates to institutions.
5. Compare, contrast, and articulate different scholars' theories and concepts of social justice.
6. Understand the concept of desert and implications regarding wealth, etc.
7. Understand and link potential methods and tools regarding implementation of social justice theories to different issues.
8. Articulate the nexus between social justice, human relations, and leadership.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
DPLS 705 addresses issues of leadership and social justice beginning with an understanding of social justice, its theories, principles, tenets, and shortcomings. We will discuss social justice issues as articulated by Rawls, Hayek, Sandel, and Sen . We will address social justice from a local, national, international, and global perspective. Finally, a brief discussion on potential leadership theories relevant to the administration of social justice will be considered.
COURSE EXPECTATIONS
To internalize relevant literature on leadership and social justice, to respond to situations of injustice in our ever-changing, violent, and volatile world; we will pursue discussions, share readings, situations, and life experiences through interactivities and simulations. Questions considered include: How does it relate to the individual, families, communities, organizations, the nation, and the world? Plus:
(1) What effect does (US) national leadership have on social justice?
(2) What is the status of social justice nationally, globally?
(3) When it comes to social justice, what is the state of the nation's human relations? Though there will be some lecture, the class will be primarily conducted in the seminar format. Please read the assignments prior to each class such that "hitchhiking" will not be an option.
(4) How does war affect social justice? [This question is seldom addressed.]
GRADING - DELIVERABLES (APA Format)
Grades will be calculated on your preparedness, class participation, and timely submission of the following deliverables.
1. Two scholarly papers, double spaced, at least 10 and not to exceed 12 double-spaced, word-processed pages.
Scholarly Papers (APA format): Both papers are at least 10 and not to exceed 12 double-spaced pages, not counting references, using the APA format (5th edition). Note that papers in this context have an Introduction/beginning, Middle/body, and end/conclusions.
Paper #1-Compare and Contrast
Choose a social justice issue or issues; define the issues, and compare and contrast two theories of social justice; link the theories to the issues? And so what? Include in your paper how Sen, Sandel, and Rawls differ when it comes to the meaning of social justice. Finally, what are at least two leadership implications? Weight: 20%
Paper #2-Critique
Critique Holland's Misogyny: The world's oldest prejudice. In your critique, integrate ideas, concepts, and theories of Rawls, Sandel, and Sen. Thoughts to consider: women do 66% of the world's work; they produce 50% of the world's food; they earn 10% of the world's income and own 1% of the world's property, per the United Nations. Additionally, there are 100 million women and girls lost in the world because of gender discrimination. Finally, what are at least four leadership implications? One last thought-we are referring to half the world's population. Weight: 35%
2. Class participation includes 20%:
- a. Submit four (4), two-page, double-spaced, summaries of journal articles/publications on social justice-post on BB so all of us can see and read.
•b. Summarize four of the 8 class meets, e.g., main points of discussion, include what the points/class meant to you, plus leadership implications. Post your work on the Blackboard
•c. Be prepared for impromptu three- to five-minute writing assignments in class.
Participation will be assessed on your being prepared and engaged, listening, and discussing. What is the issue?
3. Group Presentations 30-35 Min 25%:
We will allocate time during the beginning of each class to facilitate preparation (30 to 45 minutes). Presentations may cover strategies or suggested solutions for a social justice issue, e.g., caring for the elderly, distribution as defined by the texts, women's plight, etc. Your group may not exceed four (4) people. You may use PowerPoint, stage a skit, have a debate, a panel discussion, or whatever means you deem necessary. Provide an outline to the instructor at presentation or other handouts. Consider "take-aways" -namely, what will participants walk away with. What do you want them to know that perhaps they didn't know before? Or, what do you want them to do?
Note: time for the presentations is 25-30 minutes. After 25 minutes, I will give you a 5-minute warning. Present your work without reading it to the class.
Other possibilities for presentation topics:
* Misogyny
* Global justice
* Health services vs. social justice
* Rape and war
* Terrorism and social justice
* Sending soldiers off to war, facing them when they return home
* Present a topic that pesters you
We will watch and discuss the following videos at the "appropriate" time and as time permits:
- a. "The Examined Life: What is Justice"
- b. "The Shadow of Hate"
- c. Parts of "Washington, You're Fired"
- d. Others as time permits
ORDER OF READINGS AND STUDY
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February 6 |
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February 20 |
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March 6 |
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March 20 |
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March 27 |
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Article Summary 3; Second Scholarly Paper |
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April 10 |
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Article Summary 4 |
References
Adams, M., Blumenfeld, W. J.,Castaneda, R., Hackman, H. W., Peters, M. L. & Zuniga, X. (2000). Reading for diversity and social Justice. New York, NY: Routledge.
Anathasiou, T., (1998). Divided planet: The ecology of rich and poor. Athens, GA: University of Georgia.
Barlow, M., Clarke, T., (2002). Blue gold: The fight to stop the corporate theft of the world's water. New York: New Press.
Barry, B. M. (1989). Theory of justice: A treatise on social justice Volume 1. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Bello, W., (1996). Structural adjustment programs: "Success" for whom?. In J. Mander & E.
Delgado, R. (2003). Justice at war: Civil liberties and civil rights during times of crisis. New York, NY: New York University Press.
Freire, P. (2003). Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York, NY: Continuum.
Goldsmith (Eds.), The case against the global economy (pp. 285-293). San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books.
Goldsmith, E., (1996). Development as colonialism. In J. Mander & E. Goldsmith (Eds.), The case against the global economy (pp. 253-266). San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books.
Hayek, F. A. (1976). Law, legislation and liberty: Vol. 2. The mirage of social justice. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
Hayek, F. A. (1981). Law, legislation and liberty: Vol. 3: The political order of a free people. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press
Holland, J. (2006). Misogyny: The world's oldest prejudice. New York, NY: Carroll & Graf Publishers.
Investor Responsibility Research Center (1998). The sweatshop quandary: Corporate responsibility on the global frontier . P. Varley (Ed.). Washington, DC.
Khor, M., (1994). South-north resource flows and their implications for sustainable development. Third world resurgence. 46, pp 14-25.
Khor, M., (1996). Global economy and the third world. In J. Mander & E. Goldsmith (Eds.), The case against the global economy (pp. 47-59). San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books.
Locke, J. (1980). Second treatise of government. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company. [originally published in 1690]
Madeley, J., (1999). Big business, poor countries: The impact of transnational corporations on the world's poor. New York: Zed Books.
Magdoff, H., (1978). Imperialism: From the colonial age to the present. New York:
Monthly Review Press.
Mander, J., (1991). In the absence of the sacred: The failure of technology and the survival of the Indian nations. San Fransisco, CA: Sierra Club Books.
Mill, J.S. (1989). The subjection of women. Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press
Miller, D. (1999). Principles of social justice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Moussa, H., (2000, May). The interconnections of globalization and migration with racism and colonialism: Tracing complicity. Paper presented at a conference entitled "The Vision and Practice of Jubilee," sponsored by the Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee Initiative, Toronto, Ontario.
National Association of Social Workers (1996). NASW Code of ethics. Washington, DC: Author.
Northcott, M., (1999). Life after debt: Christianity and global justice. London: SPCK.
Prigoff, A., (2000). Economics for social workers: Social outcomes of economic globalization with strategies for community action . Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Polack, R. (2004), Social justice and the global economy: New challenges for social work in the 21 st century. Social work,(49)pp.281-290.
Rebore, R. W. (2003). A human relations approach to the practice of educational leadership. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Roodman, D., (2001). Still waiting for the jubilee: Pragmatic solutions for the third world debt crisis. Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute.
Shiva, V., (2000a). Stolen harvest: The hijacking of the global food supply. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.
Shiva, V., (2000b). War against nature and the people of the south. In S. Anderson (Ed.), Views from the south: The effects of globalization and the WTO on third world countries (pp. 91-125). Chicago, Il: Food First Books, The International Forum on Globalization (co-publishers).
Shiva, V., (2002). Water wars: Privatization, pollution and profit . Cambridge, MA: South End Press.
Twine, W. F. & Blee, K. M. (2001). Feminism & Antiracism: International struggles for justice. New York: New York University Press.
United Nations Development Program, (1999). Human development report 1999 , Geneva. Worldwatch Institute, (2001). State of the world 2001. New York: Norton.
