Educational Inequalities and the New Politics of Exclusion
Language: English
At a time in which expectations for baseline educational levels are rising across the globe, many students are facing obstacles to attain the kinds and levels of schooling that they desire or warrant. Culture wars and attacks on ‘wokeness,’ initiatives by fundamentalist regimes and ultraconservative groups to restrict access to schooling for targeted groups, anti-trans measures and other punitive actions against minority students in the guise of parental rights, streaming and program placement practices that prevent or make it difficult for some students to pursue more desirable educational pathways, xenophobia and racial discrimination against immigrants and racialized minorities, anti-intellectual and anti-science stances, and numerous other developments are contributing to the reproduction of longstanding educational inequalities while generating new forms of exclusion and inequality. This session welcomes papers that explore, with reference to empirical findings and/or theoretical investigations, emerging phenomena that pose barriers to educational pathways for minority learners within specific contexts, as well as challenges to and resistance against such initiatives.