Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity
About the Book Series
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
Manon Berset: [email protected] – Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Murray: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
Building Resilience of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children in China: Power, Politics, Participation, and Education
1st Edition
By Guanglun Michael Mu
October 10, 2019
The past two decades have seen exponential growth of urbanisation and migration in China. Emerging from this growth is a population of floating and left-behind children which is estimated to be approaching 100 million. Due to their increasing risks of undesirable educational and social, as well as ...
Social Justice and Transformative Learning: Culture and Identity in the United States and South Africa
1st Edition
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By Saundra M. Tomlinson-Clarke, Darren L. Clarke
June 07, 2019
The similarities between the United States and South Africa with respect to race, power, oppression and economic inequities are striking, and a better understanding of these parallels can provide educational gains for students and educators in both countries. Through shared experiences and ...
The Media War on Black Male Youth in Urban Education
1st Edition
By Darius Prier
June 07, 2019
News media, film, and the music industry have become powerful sources of misrepresentation of Black male life in the social imagination of white society. The pedagogy of popular culture has important implications for educators and youth advocates who desire to challenge the myths and distortions ...
Facilitating Educational Success For Migrant Farmworker Students in the U.S.
1st Edition
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By Patricia Perez, Maria Zarate
June 04, 2019
Grounded in empirical research, this timely volume examines the challenges to academic success that migrant farmworker students face in the U.S. Providing an original framework for academic success among migrant farmworker students and applying a diverse range of methodological approaches, chapter ...
Whiteness, Pedagogy, and Youth in America: Critical Whiteness Studies in the Classroom
1st Edition
By Samuel Jaye Tanner
May 07, 2019
This book employs a narrative approach to recount and interpret the story of an innovative teaching and learning project about whiteness. By offering a first-hand description of a nationally-recognized, high school-based Youth Participatory Action Research project—The Whiteness Project—this book ...
Race and Colorism in Education
1st Edition
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By Carla Monroe
April 15, 2019
As one of the first scholarly books to focus on colorism in education, this volume considers how connections between race and color may influence school-based experiences. Chapter authors question how variations in skin tone, as well as related features such as hair texture and eye color, ...
Faces of Discrimination in Higher Education in India: Quota policy, social justice and the Dalits
1st Edition
By Samson K. Ovichegan
March 14, 2018
This book illuminates the experiences of a set of students and faculty who are members of the Dalit caste – commonly known as the ‘untouchables’ – and are relatively ‘successful’ in that they attend or are academics at a prestigious university. The book provides a background to the study, ...
Youth in Education: The necessity of valuing ethnocultural diversity
1st Edition
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By Christiane Timmerman, Noel Clycq, Marie Mc Andrew, Alhassane Balde, Luc Braeckmans, Sara Mels
December 21, 2017
Youth in Education explores the multiple, interrelated social contexts that young people inhabit and navigate, and how educational institutions cope with increasing ethnic, cultural and ideological diversity. Schools, families and communities represent important settings in which young people must ...
Youth and Inequality in Education: Global Actions in Youth Work
1st Edition
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By Michael Heathfield, Dana Fusco
May 18, 2017
The transition to adulthood for many is mediated by class, culture, and local/global influences on identity. This volume analyzes the global injustices that create inequities and restrict future opportunities for young people during this transitional time, including poverty, unemployment, human ...
Inequality, Power and School Success: Case Studies on Racial Disparity and Opportunity in Education
1st Edition
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By Gilberto Conchas, Michael Gottfried
December 08, 2016
This volume highlights issues of power, inequality, and resistance for Asian, African American, and Latino/a students in distinct U.S. and international contexts. Through a collection of case studies it links universal issues relating to inequality in education, such as Asian, Latino, and African ...
Identity, Neoliberalism and Aspiration: Educating white working-class boys
1st Edition
By Garth Stahl
December 07, 2016
In recent years there has been growing concern over the pervasive disparities in academic achievement that are highly influenced by ethnicity, class and gender. Specifically, within the neoliberal policy rhetoric, there has been concern over underachievement of working-class young males, ...