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Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice in Education

A Critical Exploration of the Sustainable Development Goals

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Editors:
  1. Sara Weuffen

    1. Institute of Education, Arts and Community, Ballarat, Australia

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  2. Jenene Burke

    1. Institute of Education, Arts and Community, Ballarat, Australia

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  3. Margaret Plunkett

    1. Institute of Education, Arts and Community, Ballarat, Australia

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  4. Anitra Goriss-Hunter

    1. Institute of Education, Arts and Community, Ballarat, Australia

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  5. Susan Emmett

    1. Institute of Education, Arts and Community, Ballarat, Australia

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  • Offers insight into the intersectionality of race, diversity, and inclusion through the lens of quality education
  • Highlights new thoughts, theories, and methodologies about diversity and inclusion
  • Presents an innovative model for supporting teachers working with diverse groups of students

Part of the book series: Sustainable Development Goals Series (SDGS)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice in Education in the Twenty-First Century

    • Anitra Goriss-Hunter, Jenene Burke, Sara Weuffen, Margaret Plunkett, Susan Emmett
    Pages 1-10

  3. Interrogating Perspectives of Diversity and Inclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Policy, Discourse and Epistemology in Inclusive Education

      • Jenene Burke, Anitra Goriss-Hunter, Susan Emmett
      Pages 13-27

    3. The Wicked Problem of Social Equity in Higher Education: The Conflicting Discourses and the Impact of COVID-19

      • Ana Larsen, Susan Emmett
      Pages 29-42

    4. Issues and Solutions: A Literature Review of the Deficit Discourses Concerning Under-Represented Students

      • Ana Larsen, Liam Frost-Camilleri
      Pages 43-55

    5. Learning Through an Undisciplined Lens: The Centring of Indigenous Knowledges and Philosophies in Higher Education in Australia and Sweden

      • Jillian K Marsh, Sheelagh Daniels-Mayes, Kristina Sehlin MacNeil, Melissa Nursey-Bray
      Pages 57-75

    6. Insights into the Education System in India and the Current Impact of COVID-19 on Child Rights

      • Anjali Rana, Rachel Daniel
      Pages 77-90

    7. The Fallacy of Cultural Inclusion in Mainstream Education Discourses

      • Sara Weuffen, Kym Willis
      Pages 91-106

  4. Foregrounding Diverse Voices and Inclusive Practices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. A Possible Me? Inspiring Learning Among Regional Young People for the Future World of Work

      • Cheryl Glowrey, Stuart Levy, Monica Green, Anna Fletcher, Margaret Plunkett
      Pages 109-124

    3. Do not Enter? An Autoethnographic Encounter with Policy and Practice Workforce Agendas in Early Childhood Education and Care

      • Kim Browne
      Pages 125-138

    4. Parent–Teachers: Experiences of Supporting our Children with Dis/ability in Schools

      • Amy Claughton, Sara Weuffen, Deborah Robertson, Kylie Nice
      Pages 139-151

    5. African Girls’ Experiences of Gender in School Communities: Observations and Reflections from a Researcher

      • Catherine Oxworth
      Pages 153-165

    6. Social and Cultural Capitals of Parents from Indian Immigrant Background: A Case for Developing Children’s STEM Learning

      • Sarika Kewalramani, Gillian Kidman
      Pages 167-179

    7. Identity and Intersectional Responsive Pedagogy in Higher Education: Insights from Two Locations in Regional and Urban Australia

      • Anitra Goriss-Hunter, Verity Archer, James Arvanitakis
      Pages 181-196

  5. Disrupting Mainstream Education Through Capacity Building

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197
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    2. Implementing Inclusive Pedagogies: What Regular Primary Classroom Teachers Know and Do

      • Moya Elvey, Jenene Burke
      Pages 199-215

    3. Bridges and Barriers: Building an Innovative Model of Support for Teachers of Students with ASD

      • Wendy Holcombe, Margaret Plunkett
      Pages 217-232

    4. Digital Technology for Inclusive Education: Reflecting on the Role of Teachers

      • Helen Coker, Duncan Mercieca
      Pages 233-243
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About this book

This book presents an edited collection of critical discourse situated in the fields of diversity and inclusion broadly, and more specifically, within the discipline of education. Each chapter articulates the importance of educational diversity in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4. The edited collection presents a grounding narrative of equitable learning opportunities and experiences via interpretivist theoretical frameworks and student-centered methodologies. The combination of these approaches, combined within the strong and scholarly-informed social justice lens, reminds us, that the onus of education is to acknowledge, recognise, respect, and engage with the diverse student cohorts, learning needs, and multiple knowledges and cultures that exist in educational contexts. This edited collection creates a holistic discourse around the experiences, interrogations, and innovations occurring within education communities to foreground deeper and more holistic understanding of the intersectionality of diversity and inclusion existing within the contemporary educational settings.

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Education, Arts and Community, Ballarat, Australia

    Sara Weuffen, Jenene Burke, Margaret Plunkett, Anitra Goriss-Hunter, Susan Emmett

About the editors

Dr Sara Weuffen is a teacher-researcher specialist at Federation University, and the University of New South Wales, Australia. She has a Ph.D. in cross/inter-cultural education research between non-Indigenous people, Aboriginal peoples, and Torres Strait Islanders in Australia. She specializes in learning and content design for student-centred education diverse cohorts across a broad range of platforms: online, blended, and face-to-face. As a non-Indigenous woman born on Gundijtmara Country (Warrnambool) and living on Wadawurrung Country (Ballarat), Sara draws upon her formative grey methodological approach, where both Poststructural theory and Indigenous methodologies are bought together, and collaborations with Australia’s First Nations Peoples, to critique dominant structures and ideologies, interrogate binary discourses, and push educational boundaries for emancipatory and success-orientated shared-learning outcomes and positive social progress.

Professor Jenene Burke isthe Director of Academic Operations in the Institute of Education, Arts and Community at Federation University Australia. As a teacher educator, Jenene’s learning and teaching interests centre on educational responses to student diversity, with respect to inclusive education and disability studies in education. Jenene’s expertise as a higher education teacher was recognised with an Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in 2013 in the Australian Awards for University Teaching. Jenene is the President of the World Federation of Associations for Teacher Education (WFATE) and co-chair of the Inclusion, Social Justice in Teacher Education in Global Contexts research focus area for WFATE.

Dr Margaret Plunkett is Adjunct Associate Professor at Federation University, Australia. She has been a teacher educator and researcher for more than three decades, specialising in the fields of rural and regional education, teacherprofessional learning and gifted education. She has extensive research expertise in both qualitative and quantitative methodologies and across all educational sectors, particularly in relation to diverse student populations in rural and regional areas, with much of the work focusing on the intersection between aspirations, rurality and achievement. Margaret has conducted research for the Victorian Department of Education, resulting in state-wide policy change. She has also been involved in a number of longitudinal mixed methods research projects with schools in the Gippsland region, focusing on how educational environments can help develop knowledge, skills and competencies that assist in building meaningful and sustainable relationships and emotional competence within communities. She is an experienced supervisor of higher degree research candidates, many of them international students with broad-ranging topics and methodologies, with particular expertise in mixed methods and case study research. A major part of Margaret’s passion has been the development and teaching of courses in gifted education for which she has won a number of teaching awards including the Pearson/ATEA Teacher Educator of the Year (2012) and an Office of Learning and Teaching Citation (2014). Her research in the field has resulted in many publications and conference presentations both nationally and internationally. Margaret is Associate Editor of the Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, elected Australian delegate on the World Council for Gifted Children and a member of a range of national and international education associations.

Dr. Anitra Goriss-Hunter is the Director, Learning and Teaching and a Senior Lecturer at Federation University Australia. Her research and teaching focuses on gender and education, inclusion, and pre-service teacher (PSTs) education. Anitra was awarded the prestigious Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association award for most outstanding PhD thesis. Anitra’s research investigates women’s careers in Higher Education; ways to improve female participation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education; and, the development of inclusive teaching approaches that offer authentic learning experiences for PSTs. Anitra’s contribution in the last field was recognized when she was awarded the Federation University Vice-Chancellor’s Award – Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning 2020.

Dr Sue Emmett is Senior Lecturer at Federation University, Australia. She has been extensively involved in early childhood education and the translation of research into the practical environment for over thirty years. Her professional experience includes early childhood teaching in a range of settings, work as an early childhood educational consultant and teaching and researching within TAFE and Higher Education sectors. Sue is currently working as Senior Lecturer in Education at Federation University, Australia, where she coordinates and teaches in Bachelor of Education in Early Childhood Programs and manages partnerships with external organisations both domestics international. Prior to this, Sue worked as a Research Fellow within the School of Social and Policy Research at Charles Darwin University, where early childhood literacy was central to her research, particularly in relation to indigenous education. Her research interests also include the well-being of children and educators including trauma informed practice in early childhood contexts, and has published academic literature in these areas. She completed her PhD in 2011, entitled 'Preparing Professional Caregivers as Young Children's Attachment Partners: A longitudinal study of a new Australian pre-service program', which centred upon relationship focused theory and practice in early childhood contexts as well as learning and teaching at tertiary level.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice in Education

  • Book Subtitle: A Critical Exploration of the Sustainable Development Goals

  • Editors: Sara Weuffen, Jenene Burke, Margaret Plunkett, Anitra Goriss-Hunter, Susan Emmett

  • Series Title: Sustainable Development Goals Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5008-7

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-5007-0Published: 09 February 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-5010-0Published: 10 February 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-5008-7Published: 12 March 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2523-3084

  • Series E-ISSN: 2523-3092

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 287

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sociology of Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Education, general

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