The Addressing Injustices project explores that question.

We believe that when students are invited to collaborate with and work alongside teachers, community members, teacher educators, and researchers, they become motivated to engage in the world around them in creative and critical ways. We also understand literacy education as an activity that involves not just reading and writing, but also one that makes links to issues of concern to students, and aims to critically re-read and re-write the world, with the goal of increasing equity and justice. Funded by The Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, Addressing Injustices is a five-year research project that involves innovative collaboration between youth and educators.

Addressing Injustices aims to:
1. engage the principles of critical practitioner research and youth participatory action research;
2. draw equally on knowledge from students, teachers, community members, and researchers who collaborate to develop a critical literacy curriculum that is social justice oriented; and
3. effect change in and beyond schools.

Addressing Injustices also strives to increase opportunities for students and teachers to understand curriculum as a vehicle for change. During the course of this project, Addressing Injustices will involve 80-100 teacher candidates from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE, University of Toronto, Canada), and 150 students from an intermediate Toronto public school, Delta Alternative Senior School, in co-creating curriculum to accompany five young adult novels that explore issues of identity, culture, and power.