Guest Editorial Educating for Social Justice

Education serves two seemingly contradictory purposes—to sus-tain the culture and to challenge and change the culture. In nursing, we seem to have accomplished the fi rst very well! Students with whom I have worked over the years, and still to this day, are well-versed in reciting, even regurgitat-ing, what is in the textbook or the printed article, but they rarely question what they fi nd there. The nursing education pub-lished literature has many strengths, but content addressing social and structural determinants of health is woefully ab-sent. However, when I challenge students to think about what the printed word might include if social factors were to b