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What Do Students Have Against Social Justice Education?

by Daniel T. Willingham - April 27, 2010

Professors of social justice education courses report that some students resist the course content. This resistance has, in the past, been attributed to self-serving cognition on the part of students. I argue that their resistance may have a moral component.

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Daniel Willingham University of Virginia E-mail Author DANIEL T WILLINGHAM is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia.

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