%0 Journal Article
%T Nurturing Is Not Enough: A Case Study on Social Justice, Caring, and Discipline
%A Christine J. Yeh
%A Darrick Smith
%J Journal of Education
%@ 2515-5741
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0022057419848369
%X We explore the dynamics of nurturing, caring, and enabling in a social justice school and how a problematic context of educational enabling can develop when notions of nurturing are not balanced with consistent disciplinary consequences. In-depth interviews were conducted with eight school staff, teachers, and a student at a social justice urban school. Observational data and institutional documents were also analyzed, and three main themes emerged revealing the tension between nurturing and enabling: (a) sentimentalist standards, (b) perceptions of authority as oppressive, and (c) contradictions in social justice values. We discuss implications for school policy, multicultural education, and school leadership
%K disciplinary learning
%K equity
%K social justice
%K policy
%K educational studies
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022057419848369