Introduction
Cohorts will develop a working definition of social justice within the context of the USA. Each cohort will publish that definition on a common padlet for all three sections of Social Ethics that Dr. Scibilia instructs.
Process
Each Cohort will appoint a member to carry one of the following responsibilities: Manager (keeps cohort on task, insures all members complete their work, guarantees that deadlines are met), Recorder (maintains all research notes, shares all research findings with the cohort), Techie (makes sure that digital resources are operational and posts all final work on the common padlet), Fact-Checkers (makes sure that all sources are reliable, creates an annotated webliography for three sources used - noting in the annotation the credentials that make each source reliable).
The branch of the US Government that ejudicates questions regarding social justice in accord with the social ethical principles informing the Constitution is The Federal Supreme Court. Each Cohort will research Supreme Court Hearings between 2004 and 2015 related to Race, Ethnicity, Immigration, Gender, Civil Rights. Each Cohort will negotiate with other cohorts on which area of court cases that they will focus their research prior to engaging the process. Dr. Scibilia will post the results of the negotiation.
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Each cohort will locate three reliable sources on the proceedings of the court and decisions rendered by the court on the particular topic selected.
Each cohort will define the question facing the court, describe the social situation that prompted the question, concisely stated the opposing sides of the question and the court's decision and dissenting view, and extrapolate a definition of social justice from their findings regarding the court case and decision under consideration.
Each cohort will post their definition of social justice on the class' commom padlet accompanied by a link to a Google Document that houses their one page report plus annotated list of reliable sources.
Evaluation
The Webquest Rubric: Open the following link.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P_H2K-9DGwU0QCFWh4wvMxerrWhGCk-VN0J…
Conclusion
Check out the Padlet Link as each section of the course processes the project, and each student adds a definition of social justice in his words to his conceptual dictionary.
Credits
Teacher Page
By this point in the course, you should have an extensive, specific Social Ethics Conceptual Dictionary in which is housed the ideas that are essential to your social ethical perspective. That dictionary should include definitions of economic justice and social justice.
You will add to your dictionary as the third marking period proceeds, and you will use the perspective and ideas of your dictionary whenever you are invited to offer a social ethical analysis of a topic, question or issue.