Justice

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Justice is showing fairness and equality for every student or person you encounter. Fairness, however, is not the same for each student because each student or person is different; they are different culturally, academically, morally, and in gender, so justice must be adapted accordingly. For example, if a male student of Middle Eastern descent in you class hit a female student out of anger, before issuing punishment, you would have to consider his background and culture. Perhaps in his culture males are expected to dominate over women. If this is true, then you should not punish the male student immediately; hitting women is how he was reared, therefore you cannot take actions against something he was taught in the home. You would have to explain to him the culture he is in and the rules of the classroom for inflicting harm on another student. After you are positive the child understands the culture and the rules of the environment to which he currently exists, if he hits another student, male or female, you would have the right to punish him. I find this to be a fairly accurate definition of justice because as a student my professors and coaching teacher always emphasize the uniqueness of each child or situation. If the individual development of each child is considered when teaching children an academic lesson, then their morals, age , cultural background, gender, and cognitive levels should all be regarded when determining what is just.
According to Piaget, children on the preoperational level of though can only focus their thoughts on one portion of a problem (Berk p 319-322). In relating my standards of justice as an Early Childhood Educator to those of my students, I know they firmly believe in equality. The also only see the actions of others, not their intentions (Educational Psychology p 102-103, Berk p 482); I believe this is why children tattle tell on one another constantly. Children know rules are in place and...