aRise: Beyond the Marginal Eclipse of Equity and Inclusion
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "Special and Inclusive Education".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2024) | Viewed by 626
Special Issue Editors
Interests: race; anti-racism studies; black and minority education; African indigeneity; anti-colonial thought; research collaboration; Africentrism; decolonization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The inextricable link between community and student voice is tied to an ongoing demand for bold, undiluted, meaningful, and tiered learning for transformative action and subversive, anti-colonial change. Equity, as defined by Gloria Ladson-Billings, is positioned as a political activity in teaching, wherein educators can choose to uphold the status quo, or challenge it by seeking to understand their students and meeting them where they are. Students bring their holistic selves to learning; therefore, all learning spaces should complement their already acquired cultural knowledge. As Lisa Delpit stated, “We view the world through culture.” Culture, therefore, forms the everydayness of every possibility. Equity is reflected in a curiosity for students' everyday lived experiences that are often contradicted in mainstream schooling and pinned against a backdrop of exclusion. Hence, creating an environment that improves outcomes for all students is underpinned by authentic engagement; getting to know students and creating a culture of high expectations centers communal voices as necessary tools to interrogate and critique a culture of exclusion in the spirit of greater accountability of all stakeholders and transformative action and change. As such, our Special Issue on equity, exclusion and everyday learning, and the experiences of minoritized groups invites you to submit manuscripts that explore our distinct yet collective voice and shared experiences to improve outcomes for students and communities.
- Afrofuturism
- Africentrism
- African Indigeneity
- Africology
- Anti-Black racism
- Anti-Colonialism
- Anti-racism
- Blackcentricity
- Colonization
- Collusion
- Critical Consciousness
- Critical Anti-racist Theory
- Critical Race Theory
- Cultural Racism
- Culturally Relevant Responsive Pedagogy
- Decolonization
- Deculturalization
- Diversity
- Educational futurity
- Educational Policy
- Educational administration
- Educational management
- Educational philosophy
- Equity
- Ethnocentrism
- Eurocentrism
- Indigenous Modernity
- Indigeneity
- Inclusion
- Internalized Oppression
- Multicentric Pedagogy
- Multicultural Competency
- Pedagogy
- Racial Justice
- Race Consciousness
- Sociology of Education
- Student Engagement
- Student Success
- Structural Racialization
- Structural Racism
Dr. George Sefa Dei
Guest Editor
Kathy Lewis
Guest Editor Assistant
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Afrofuturism, Blackcentricity
- anti-Black racism
- anti-colonialism
- race-consciousness
- racial justice
- sociology of education
- anti-racism
- educational futurity
