Abu El-Haj Elusive Justice

Wrestling with Difference and Educational Equity in Everyday Practice
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-136-08418-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Reihe: Teaching/Learning Social Justice

Elusive Justice addresses how educators think about and act upon, differences in schools - be they based on race, gender, class, or disability - and how discourse and practice about such differences are intimately bound up with educational justice. Rather than skip over contentious or uncomfortable dialogues about difference, Thea Abu El-Haj tackles them head on. Through rich and detailed ethnographic portraits of two schools with a commitment to social justice, she analyzes the ways discourses about difference provide a key site for both producing and resisting inequalities, and examines the dilemmas that emerge from either focusing on or ignoring them. In interrogating fundamental assumptions about difference and equity, Abu El-Haj deftly blends critique with a search for hope and possibility, to ultimately argue for ways educators might translate ideals about justice into effective practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abu El-Haj, Thea Renda

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Michelle Fine

1. Introduction

2. Justice Claims and Everyday Practice: Portraits of Two Schools

3. Integration

4. Equal Standards

5. Recognition

6. The Difference Is in the Relationship: A Framework for Justice

Über Autor(innen)

Thea Abu El-Haj is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University.