1st Edition

The Routledge International Handbook of Equity and Inclusion in Education

Edited By Paul Downes, Guofang Li, Lore Van Praag, Stephen Lamb Copyright 2024
586 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

586 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

586 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Providing a cornerstone to the global debate on equity and inclusion within education, this handbook explores equity issues pertaining to poverty and social class, race, ethnicity, sociocultural, sociolinguistic exclusion in education and recognises intersectionality and gender across these dimensions. This carefully curated collection of essays written by international experts promotes... Read more

1. Editors’ Introduction: Multi-layered Equitable Inclusive Systems: The Emergence and Expansion of a Global Framework to Eliminate Socioeconomic and Sociocultural Exclusion in Education
Paul Downes, Guofang Li, Lore Van Praag and Stephen Lamb

SECTION I: Theoretical Frameworks

2. Framing and Practicing Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization (EDID) in Inclusive Education Systems: Progress, Tensions, and Ways Forward
Guofang Li and Lilach Marom

3. Uncovering the Axis of Tension between Diametric Oppositional Space of Othering and Connective Concentric Space of Inclusion: Moving beyond Western Ethnocentric Space
Paul Downes

4. Towards a Border Transgressing Pedagogy: Disrupting Oppressive Ecologies of Control, Surveillance, and Displacement in Schools and Beyond
Ankhi G. Thakurta, Claire Wan and Gerald Campano

5. When Inclusion Means Exclusion and The Terms of Belonging are Obfuscated: What’s the Role of Race?
Mariana Souto-Manning

6. Dynamics of inequalities in higher education: A multidimensional and comparative social justice perspective
Pepka Boyadjieva and Petya Ilieva-Trichkova

SECTION II: Funding Models and Structures for Equity and Inclusive Systems

7. The effectiveness of equity funding of schools: a comparative analysis of Flanders, The Netherlands, France, Ireland and England
Ides Nicaise, Lief Vandevoort and Sukriti Verelst

8. The Elusive Quest for Equity and the Need for Remedies Beyond Improved Schooling
Paul Reville

9. The costs of failing to be inclusive: An analysis based on education in Australia
Stephen Lamb and Shuyan Huo

10. Inclusive educational systems around the globe: Evidence from international comparative large-scale student assessments
Eva Klemenčič Mirazchiyski, Simona Bezjak and Plamen Vladkov Mirazchiyski

11. Funding and equity in education: The role of system structures
Eemer Eivers

12. Equity and inclusivity in school funding: case study of an Australian State
Andrew Wade

SECTION III: Exclusion and Discrimination

13. School as the Agency of Social Reproduction: A Case of Medium of Instruction Policymaking for Quasi-privatization in Nepal
Pramod K. Sah and Guofang Li

14. A Structural Scrutiny of School Exclusion in Sweden and Lithuania: An Interdisciplinary Rights-Based Analysis
Laima Vaige and Paul Downes

15. Understanding gender gaps in education: The role of stereotypes and the intersection with social class
Mieke Van Houtte

16. The monolingual habitus of the multilingual school as a barrier to educational equity
Ingrid Piller, Hanna Torsh, Agnes Bodis and Ana Sofia Bruzon

17. Reality and Challenge in Ensuring Educational Rights for Children with Disabilities in Ethnic Minority Areas of China
Xu Su Qiong, Luo Shi Min and Leng Yu

18. Caste Discrimination in Education: A study of the Dalit Minority in Odisha, India
Subhadarshee Nayak

SECTION IV: Bridging Health, Wellbeing and Education

19. Hunger in the UK Classroom
Margaret A. Defeyter, Donald A.P. Bundy, Myles Bremner and Abigail Page

20. Students’ Voices: A participatory approach to Social and Emotional Education
Carmel Cefai

21. Guaranteeing Inclusive Education under International Human Rights Law: A Proposal for the Use of Structural Indicators Addressing Issues of Equality, Non-discrimination and Wellbeing
Anthony Cullen and Paul Downes

22. School-Based Community Work Through a University-Community Partnership Using a Participatory Approach: The SOYAÇ Model
Ozden Bademci

23. Promoting equity through Comprehensive Community Initiatives in England
Kirstin Kerr, Karen Laing and Liz Todd

SECTION V: Agency and Empowerment

24. Promoting Educational Equity for Migrant Children in China
Min Yu

25. Indigenous Principles Guiding Inclusive Structures and Practices in Teacher Preparation: Aboriginal Teacher Education Program in Alberta, Canada
Evelyn Steinhauer, Patricia Steinhauer and Shelley Stagg Peterson

26. Walking Alongside: A Relational Conceptualization of Indigenous Parent Knowledge
Linda Young, Vernon J. Linklater and Debbie Pushor

27. Australian school students, teachers and AIME’s understanding of respect: ‘talking about the same thing but not speaking the same Language’
Anthony McKnight, Samantha McMahon and Valerie Harwood

28. Improving the Literacy Outcomes of Socioeconomically Excluded Students: How Research Can Inform Policy
Eithne Kennedy and Gerry Shiel

SECTION VI: Outreach and Engagement

29. Priming the mesosystem: Fostering home-school connections in different contexts and from differing perspectives
Jim Anderson, Assadullah Sadiq and Ann Anderson

30. Grassroots Roma women and their role in promoting equity in education for all Roma
Emilia Aiello, Andrea Khalfaou and Teresa Sordé

31. Exploring Immigrant Women’s Learning Experience in Multicultural Societies: A Summative Content Analysis
Yidan Zhu and Jingzhou Liu

32. Optimizing Educational Models and Services for K-12 Newcomer Youths and their Families:A Qualitative Investigation within a Localized Context
Rahat Zaidi, Oscar Vergara and Anusha Kassan

33. Editors’ Conclusion: Key Emerging Conceptual Movements to Underpin the Multilayered Framework of Equitable Inclusive Systems in Education
Paul Downes, Guofang Li, Lore Van Praag and Stephen Lamb

Biography

Paul Downes is a Professor of Psychology of Education, and the Director of the Educational Disadvantage Centre, Institute of Education, Dublin City University, Ireland.

Guofang Li is a Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Transnational/Global Perspectives of Language and Literacy Education of Children and Youth in the Department of Language and Literacy Education and Co-Director of Language Sciences Research Excellence Institute, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Lore Van Praag is an Assistant Professor at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Stephen Lamb is an Emeritus Professor at the Centre for International Research on Education Systems (CIRES), Victoria University, Australia.