Analysis Of Teaching For Social Justice By Carmen Carrasquillo Jay

“Teaching for Social Justice” is written by an English professor, community activist, student advocate and literary scholar, Carmen Carrasquillo Jay. She teaches all levels of composition and literature at Miramar College in San Diego. Carmen Carrasquillo Jay piece starts with her discussing a scene in the movie Good Will Hunting. She is unsettled with the scene that depicts community college students not being as committed or concerned about their education compared to the students who attend MIT, a prestigious university. She feels this is an incorrect inference to the student she taught.
Carmen Carrasquillo Jay students struggle with voicelessness, bourne out of their negative experiences. She gives examples on how she empowers her students
to think for themselves, therefore having their own voice. She teaches social justice, expressing their own opinion. She demonstrates that their voice matters, that everyone is learning to participate in an inclusive collaborating environment. She respects her students home language and cultures consequently bringing it into her classroom to teach social justice.
Her style of teaching students is stupendous. Teaching in this manor is empowering to those students who she teaches. If we could teach our young students in this manor our world would only improve.