The Social Justice Game is an educational board game that helps players/students experience systemic inequity in an embodied way.

A parody of Monopoly™, it forces players to pit their own expectations of ‘fairness’ against the economic pressures they experience in the game. Unlike Monopoly, which assumes a level socioeconomic field, The Social Justice Game more closely reflects actual inequities under the current American economy.

LEARNING GOALS

• Learn to use the game to help students develop an embodied understanding of the challenges of poverty.

• Better understand ideological concepts such as ‘social Darwinism’ and how to challenge students to challenge them.

• Understand how to access library resources to play the game with your students.

RELATED PAGES: 

• https://thesocialjusticegame.org
• https://bit.ly/sjg-sandbox