FAIR: A Diversity and Social Justice Curriculum for School Counsellors to Integrate School-Wide

Diversity and social justice-related issues have profound effects on individual development and societal health, including creating positive self-images, growing strong relationships with others, and learning how to contribute to fairness in society. Ideally, social justice education is introduced to children early on. The curriculum presented in this article provides school counsellors with a way to begin this introduction. FAIR (Fairness for All Individuals through Respect) is an experiential curriculum that invites children to learn about social justice and diversity. School counsellors are ideally situated to bring FAIR to schools creating shared experiences and a culture of social justice school-wide. FAIR consists primarily of five experiential activities that address issues of race, gender, and class societal injustices. In this article, we describe these activities and outline how school counsellors can use FAIR.