Hesburgh Libraries

The Social Justice Game is an educational board game that helps players experience systemic inequity in an embodied way. It leverages players' prior experience playing Monopoly™ but forces them to pit their own expectations of fairness against the economic pressures they experience in the game. Unlike Monopoly, which assumes a level socioeconomic playing field, The Social Justice Game more closely reflects actual inequities under the current American economy.

Learning Goals:

1. Learn how to use the game to help students develop an embodied understanding of the challenges of poverty
2. Better understand ideological concepts such as Social Darwinism
3. Understand how to access library resources to play the game with your students