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Dear colleagues,
See below.
All the best,
Pat
Dr Patricia Noxolo,
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston,
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK
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From: BLACKMAN, Stacey N J [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 21 December 2018 15:35
To: Patricia Noxolo (Geography)
Subject: Please Circulate to Caribbean Association List
Hi Pat,
Please see the information as requested in text format!
Stacey
A NEW BOOK SERIES
Routledge Research on Educational Equity in Developing Nations
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Equity in education in Developing nations continues to be an ideal that
governments strive towards as they seek to meet their collective commitments
enshrined in UNESCO's Education for All Agenda and The Convention for the
Rights of the Child. However, the conversations around how countries of the
South will achieve equity in education face a bleak reality that belies the
complexity of achieving quality, equitable Education for All. Small Island
Developing States (SIDS) like those within the Caribbean, Asia-Pacific, and
others like Latin America, other Micro-States and Africa remain vulnerable to
the external vagaries of globalization, macroeconomic policies, and high
external and internal debt. These affect their governments' ability to provide a
high-quality education for a diverse group of learners. Other factors like
poverty, crime, violence in schools, war, migration, refugee status, drug use and
abuse among teens, acceptance of differences, high attrition rates at school for
youth, gangs, school ethos, culture, management also present additional
challenges for school and education authorities in these contexts. It is,
therefore, fair to say that governments in countries of the global South find it
difficult to provide an education that is equitable, well resourced, sustainable,
and socially just.
The Routledge Research on Educational Equity in Developing Nations series
provides a platform to debate all aspects of achieving equity in education.
Research from the North dominates the current discourse and fails to take
account of how educational inequality is structured and in some cases supported
by globalized western views of education that remain incompatible with the
realities of countries in the South. How countries of the Global South
understand and structure their educational, legal and political systems to
address barriers to participation at all levels will determine how successfully
they navigate the equity in education agenda.
In this new book series influential scholars will be invited to write books to discuss the issues that influence the achievement
of equity in education in Developing Nations.
Examples Include:
Structural inequality
Education reform
Diverse student body
Critical perspectives of innovations, and novel approaches for schools in under-resourced countries
Research based on experience, rather than outside the boundaries of Developing Nations
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Please send proposals to
Stacey Blackman
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and Matthew Friberg
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Dr. Stacey Blackman
Lecturer in Special and Inclusive Education
School of Education
University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Editor Caribbean Discourse in Inclusive Education (Information Age Publishing)
http://www.infoagepub.com/series/Caribbean-Discourse-in-Inclusive-Education
Editor Achieving Inclusive Education in the Caribbean and Beyond (Springer)
Tel: 1 246 417-4429
Fax: 1 246 424-0634
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