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Upon completion of the graduate certificate in SJS, students will be able to meet the following relevant Transformative Standards for Social Justice, Peace, and Environmental Education codified by Andrzejewski, Baltodano, & Symcox in 2009:

• Standard 1: Has the knowledge, skills, abilities, and dispositions to advance social justice, particularly as the advancement of social justice is related to:
  • Self-determination and relative autonomy;
  • A focus on the collective, not individuals;
  • Sociopolitical context, historicity, and political economy;
  • Civil and human rights;
  • Critique and self critique;
  • Radical love;
  • Dialogic, consensus process;
  • Ethics, including eco-sustainability relative to environmental racism and justice;
  • The coercive power of the state, imperialism, and the military industrial complex;
  • Schools as socially-reproductionistic, not democratic, institutions;
  • Affirmation of community funds of knowledge and cultural wealth in direct opposition to socially constructed deficit;
  • The legitimization of cultural aspirations and identity;
  • The principle of En Lak Ech;
  • The use of culturally relevant pedagogy;
  • Conscientization and democratization;
  • Equity;
  • The complex relationship between the local and the global as living and constantly adapting systems in which poverty and wealth can be mitigated (by social justice action) and/or augmented (by inaction in the context of neoliberalism); and,
  • A focus on what can be done.
• Standard 2: Understands that all people, including PK-12 students, can exercise social justice, and has the knowledge, skills, abilities, and dispositions to facilitate this.
• Standard 3: Understands that all institutions, especially educational institutions (PK-12 schools, colleges and universities, accrediting bodies, etc.) can foster social justice and has the knowledge, skills, abilities, and dispositions to facilitate this.
• Standard 4: Understands how all people, including teacher educators, can support social justice and has the knowledge, skills, abilities, and dispositions to facilitate this.
• Standard 5: Understands how all communities can realize the practice of social justice and has the knowledge, skills, abilities, and dispositions to facilitate this.