Delve into a comprehensive exploration of educational equity, diversity, and social justice within diverse educational contexts with this insightful Open University Reader. Through critical analysis, it uncovers the intricate social, cultural, and economic foundations shaping educational practices worldwide. Highlighting transformative research, practices, and pedagogies, it illuminates pathways toward fostering equity, social justice, and inclusivity in educational experiences. With 25 chapters offering diverse methodologies and global perspectives, this reader provides invaluable insights into the impact of diversity on pedagogy, policy, management, and curriculum. It serves as essential reading for students and professionals alike, empowering them to address equity and diversity challenges across educational sectors. Whether in education or related fields such as health, social welfare, or employment, this resource offers indispensable guidance for enhancing educational achievement and fostering social inclusion for marginalized groups.
Insights and Background from the Authors
Janet Soler
Christopher S. Walsh
Anna Craft
Exploring the Book’s Topics and Themes
CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; About the editors; Introduction; 1. Critical Pedagody; 2. The framing of performance pedagogies: Pupil perspectives on the control of school knowledge and its acquisition; 3. An introduction to teacher research; 4. Positivistic standards and the bizarre educational world of the twenty-first century; 5. Multiple lives, disparate voices, different educational experiences: The power of narrative enquiry to investigate diversity and inform pedagogical change; 6. The elementary bubble project: Exploring critical media literacy in a fourth-grade classroom; 7. ‘How do you spell homosexual?’: Naturally queer moments in K-12 classrooms; 8. Why teach against Islamophobia? Striking the empire back; 9. An inclusive classroom? A case study of inclusiveness, teacher strategies and children’s experiences; 10. The ambiguity of the child’s ‘voice’ in social research; 11. Docile citizens? Using counternarratives to disrupt normative and dominant discourses; 12. Len Barton, inclusion and critical disability studies: Theorising disabled childhoods; 13. What to do about culture?; 14. Toward a critical race theory of education; 15. Theory, values and policy research in education; 16. Co-participative transformation: Creative learning conversations; 17. Death to critique and dissent? The politics and practices of new managerialism and of ‘evidence-based practice; 18. Early childhood education as an evolving ‘community of practice’ or as lived ‘social reproduction’: Researching the ‘taken-for-granted’; 19. Even in Sweden? Excluding the included: Some reflections on the consequences of new policies on educational processes and outcomes, and equity in education; 20. Feminist class struggle; 21. Valuing young people in community settings; 22. From equality to diversity? Ideas that keep us quiet.
