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Re-Envisioning Education
Affirming Diversity and Advancing Justice
Introduction
With increasing diversity and widening disparities in the United States and globally there are significant challenges and opportunities throughout the educational landscape. Today's educational stakeholders, particularly public school administrators and teachers, must re-envision education and collectively build equity-centered systems, structures, and practices. Confronting systemic inequality in education can be a daunting task, but it is nonetheless imperative. Connecting theory to practice, this book aims to promote inclusive educational excellence, and will offer valuable insights and inspiration to a wide range of educational stakeholders.
Core Principles
Affirming diversity and advancing social justice requires dismantling oppressive customs and structures inside and outside of the classroom, fostering an equitable school culture, building inclusive learning environments, and increasing collective efficacy through best practice. Creating healthier schools and communities requires authentically investing in and supporting historically and socially marginalized students and families. Rooted in social justice and weaving together diverse voices from the field of education, this edited volume will examine equity-focused pre-K-12 pedagogical practices and showcase high-impact initiatives.
Challenges in Education
Educators play a vital role in ensuring positive student outcomes and success, but often report feeling inadequately prepared for current challenges. Unfortunately, growing challenges are contributing to turnover rates and shortages as well as perpetuating social inequities among pre-K-12 students instead of dismantling them. A research study by the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) and the Learning Policy Institute (LPI) reveals that public schools with higher percentages of low-income students and students of color are more likely to experience administrative and teacher turnover, which compounds equity issues affecting already vulnerable students.
Call to Action
This edited volume will provide educational stakeholders (i.e., school administrators, teachers, service providers, parents/guardians, nonprofit leaders, community members) with a deeper understanding of pedagogical practices that affirm diversity and promote social justice, while offering a current view of educational inequalities juxtaposed with an urgent call to action. School districts across the United States must recognize inequalities and provide increasingly diverse students with needed support and resources, particularly as social disparities continue to widen and adversely impact millions of students.
Content and Resources
Through a collection of diverse voices from the field of education (university educators; pre-K-12 district leaders, school administrators and teachers; nonprofit leaders serving children and youth), this book will illuminate current social inequalities impacting pre-K-16 students, establish the need to affirm diversity and advance social justice, share practical examples of transformative initiatives including mindful school-family-community partnerships, feature evidence-based pedagogical practices, and provide an array of helpful resources for 21st-century educational stakeholders.
