Summary
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The authors provide an overview of what it means to manage for equality in schools. Whether at senior management or classroom level, issues such as equality of opportunity and outcomes are central to education policy and practice in the UK. The authors explain and disentangle terms like equality, equity, diversity and social justice. This book will be an accessible guide to current thinking on equality, and how this looks in schools. They will reference European and international literature.
Ethnicity and equality
Ethnicity and equality
Ethnicity remains a key area of potential inequality in the education system. Although intersecting with other facets of possible inequality, for example socioeconomic class, religion and gender, ethnicity itself is a focus for racism, discrimination, bullying and low expectations, all of which impact on accessing educational opportunities. Increasing levels of migration into and within Europe have put a fresh emphasis on ethnicity as a factor in schools and in society more generally. In the context of a growing ethnic minority population, schools may need to continually re-assess their practice to ensure that they are offering the best possible educational experience to all.
In this chapter we ask you to think about:
- ethnicity and the school population in England
- the intersectionality of ethnicity, ...
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