While there is considerable literature on social inequality and education, there is little recent work which explores notions of difference and diversity in relation to "race," class and gender. This edited text aims to bring together researchers in the field of education located across many international contexts such as the UK, Australia, USA, New Zealand and Europe. Contributors investigate the ways in which dominant perspectives on "difference," intersectionality and institutional structures underpin and reinforce educational inequality in schools and higher education. They emphasize the importance of international perspectives and innovative methodological approaches to examining these areas, and seek to locate the dimensions of difference within recent theoretical discourses, with an emphasis on "race," class and gender as key categories of analysis.
This edited text aims to bring together researchers in the field of education located across many international contexts such as the UK, Australia, USA, New Zealand and Europe. Contributors investigate the ways in which dominant perspectives on "difference," intersectionality and institutional structures underpin and reinforce educational inequa
1. Educational Inequalities in Schools and Higher Education: An
Introduction Kalwant Bhopal and Uvanney Maylor Part I: Difference, Diversity
and Inclusion
2. Pale/Ontology: The Status of Whiteness in Education Zeus
Leonardo
3. How Fair is Britain? Addressing Race and Education Inequalities
in the 21st Century Gill Crozier
4. Black Academic Success: Whats Changed?
Jasmine Rhamie
5. The Intersections Of Ethnicity, Gender, Social Class And An
Itinerant Lifestyle: Deconstructing Teachers Narratives And Thinking About
The Possibilities For Transformative Action Robyn Henderson Part II:
Understanding Difference: Policy and Practice in Education
6. Negotiating
Achievement: Students Gendered and Classed Constructions of (Un) Equal
Ability Anne-Sofie Nyström
7. Change AND Tradition: Muslim boys Talk about
Their Post-16 Aspirations Farzana Shain
8. Gendered Surveillance and the
Social Construction of Young Muslim Women in Schools Heidi Safia Mirza and
Veena Meetoo
9. Politics of Difference, Intersectionality, Pedagogy of
Poverty and Missed Opportunities at Play in the Classroom Carl A. Grant and
Annemarie Ketterhagen Engdahl Part III: Educational Inequalities: Identities,
Inclusion and Barriers
10. "I Want to Hear You": Listening to the Narratives,
Practices and Visions of a Chuj Maya Teacher in Guatemala Alexandra Allweiss
11. What Does It Mean to be the "Pride of Pinesville"?: Opportunities
Facilitated and Constrained Amy Johnson Lachuk, Mary Louise Gomez and Shameka
N. Powell
12. A Place to Hang my Hat On? University Staff Perceptions in
Multiethnic New Zealand Edwina Pio, Ali Rasheed, Agnes Naera, Kitea Tipuna
and Lorraine Parker
13. Intersectional Pedagogy: From Movies to the Classroom
Elzbieta H. Oleksy
14. Intersecting Identities: Young Peoples Constructions
of Identity in South-East Europe Alistair Ross
15. Conclusions Uvanney Maylor
and Kalwant Bhopal
Kalwant Bhopal is Reader in Education and Director of the Social Justice and Inclusive Education Research Centre at the University of Southampton, School of Education. Uvanney Maylor is Reader in Education in the department of Education Studies, and Deputy Director of the Institute for Research in Education at the University of Bedfordshire.
