Theorizing social justice in education: a conceptual framework

Dale T. Snauwaert

Chapter 2 in Handbook of Social Justice in Education, 2026, pp 19-33 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter presents a normative conceptual framework centered around basic questions of justice and the idea of fairness for theorizing social justice in education. The proposed framework is comprised of basic questions of justice: Who Belongs? Whose Truth? Who Gets What? Who Decides? Whose Security? and Whose Resistance? It is proposed that a conception of social justice can be constructed of principled answers to these questions as well as their justification in terms of the basic criteria of fairness. It constitutes a conceptual framework for constructing a conception of social justice in education that specifies what normative considerations need to be considered in constructing a theory of social justice rather than the articulation of a specific theory. It is an attempt to conceptually frame the work of theory construction, which is an urgent matter for the development and assessment of conceptions of educational social justice.

Keywords: Social Justice; Education; Concept of Justice; Normative Theory; Basic Questions of Justice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035318445
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