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Transforming practice : critical issues in equity, diversity and education /

Contributor(s): Simmons, Katy | Rix, Jonathan | Craft, Ann | Walsh, Christopher S | Soler, Janet | The Open University.
Publisher: London : Insitute of Education Press, 2013Description: xv, 256 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781858565163 (pbk.); 9781858565163:; 1858565162 (pbk.).Subject(s): Educational equalization | Educational sociologyDDC classification: 379.26
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- About the editors -- Introduction / Janet Soler, Christopher S. Walsh, Anna Craft, Jonathan Rix and Katy Simmons -- Part 1 : investigating educational issues in practice -- Critical pedagogy / Peter McLaren -- The framing of performance pedagogies : pupil perspectives on the control of school knowledge and its acquisition / Madeleine Arnot and Diano Reay -- An introduction to teacher research / Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel -- Positivistic standards and the bizarre educational world of the twenty-first century / Joe L. Kincheloe -- Multiple lives, disparate voices, different educational experiences : the power of narrative enquiry to investigate diversity and inform pedagogical change / Janet Soler -- Part 2 : contemporary examples of innovative, transformatice practice -- The elementary bubble project : exploring critical media literacy in a fourth-grade classroom / Jesse S. Gainer, Nancy Valdez-Gainer, Timothy Kinard -- 'How do you spell homosexual?' : naturally queer moments in K-12 classrooms / Janna Jackson -- Why teach against Islamophobia? : striking the empire back / Joe L. Kincheloe and Shirley R. Steinberg -- An inclusive classroom? : a case study of inclulsiveness, teacher strategies, and children's experiences / Claes Nilholm and Barbro Alm -- The ambiguity of the child's 'voice' in social research / Sirkka Komulainen -- Docile citizens? : using counternarratives to disrupt normative and dominant discourses / Christopher S. Walsh -- Part 3 : taking a stance on issues and practice to transform learning -- Len Barton, inclusion and critical disability studies : theorising disabled childhoods / Dan Goodley and Katherine Runswick-Cole -- What to do about culture? / Kris D. Gutiérrez and Maricela Correa-Chávez -- Toward a critical race theory of education / Gloria Ladson-Billings and William F. Tate IV -- Theory, values and policy research in education / Jenny Ozga -- Co-participative transformation : creative learning conversations / Anna Craft -- Part 4 : issues for 21st century practice -- Death to critique and dissent? : the policies and practices of new managerialism and of 'evidence-based practice' / Bronwyn Davies -- Early childhood education as an evolving 'community of practice' or as lived 'social reproduction' : researching the 'taken-for-granted' / Marilyn Fleer -- Even in Sweden? : excluding the included : some reflections on the consequences of new policies on educational processes and outcomes, and equity in education / Girma Berhanu -- Feminist class struggle / bell hooks -- Valuing young people in community settings / Linda Milbourne -- From equality to diversity? : ideas that keep us quiet / Jonathan Rix.
Summary: This reader critically examines educational issues of equity, diversity and social justice and how they are socially, culturally, economically rooted in educational practice across diverse educational settings and all sectors.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- About the editors -- Introduction / Janet Soler, Christopher S. Walsh, Anna Craft, Jonathan Rix and Katy Simmons -- Part 1 : investigating educational issues in practice -- Critical pedagogy / Peter McLaren -- The framing of performance pedagogies : pupil perspectives on the control of school knowledge and its acquisition / Madeleine Arnot and Diano Reay -- An introduction to teacher research / Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel -- Positivistic standards and the bizarre educational world of the twenty-first century / Joe L. Kincheloe -- Multiple lives, disparate voices, different educational experiences : the power of narrative enquiry to investigate diversity and inform pedagogical change / Janet Soler -- Part 2 : contemporary examples of innovative, transformatice practice -- The elementary bubble project : exploring critical media literacy in a fourth-grade classroom / Jesse S. Gainer, Nancy Valdez-Gainer, Timothy Kinard -- 'How do you spell homosexual?' : naturally queer moments in K-12 classrooms / Janna Jackson -- Why teach against Islamophobia? : striking the empire back / Joe L. Kincheloe and Shirley R. Steinberg -- An inclusive classroom? : a case study of inclulsiveness, teacher strategies, and children's experiences / Claes Nilholm and Barbro Alm -- The ambiguity of the child's 'voice' in social research / Sirkka Komulainen -- Docile citizens? : using counternarratives to disrupt normative and dominant discourses / Christopher S. Walsh -- Part 3 : taking a stance on issues and practice to transform learning -- Len Barton, inclusion and critical disability studies : theorising disabled childhoods / Dan Goodley and Katherine Runswick-Cole -- What to do about culture? / Kris D. Gutiérrez and Maricela Correa-Chávez -- Toward a critical race theory of education / Gloria Ladson-Billings and William F. Tate IV -- Theory, values and policy research in education / Jenny Ozga -- Co-participative transformation : creative learning conversations / Anna Craft -- Part 4 : issues for 21st century practice -- Death to critique and dissent? : the policies and practices of new managerialism and of 'evidence-based practice' / Bronwyn Davies -- Early childhood education as an evolving 'community of practice' or as lived 'social reproduction' : researching the 'taken-for-granted' / Marilyn Fleer -- Even in Sweden? : excluding the included : some reflections on the consequences of new policies on educational processes and outcomes, and equity in education / Girma Berhanu -- Feminist class struggle / bell hooks -- Valuing young people in community settings / Linda Milbourne -- From equality to diversity? : ideas that keep us quiet / Jonathan Rix.

This reader critically examines educational issues of equity, diversity and social justice and how they are socially, culturally, economically rooted in educational practice across diverse educational settings and all sectors.

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