Teaching for social Justice is an educational philosophy that proponents argue provides justice and equity for all learners in all educational setting the practice extends across all grade levels and academic settings often challenging educators themselves as well as students. Herbert kohl argues that teachers may often teach against their conscience do a sloppy job of teaching limit their methodolgy and focus too much on being a good teacher either being a good citizen. Overcoming these prospects is the crux of what he andany other educators prospects is the crux of what he and many other educators call teaching for social justice other popular educators who have explored the practice of teaching for social justice include john Dewey who may have been. The first advocate for teaching for social justice .