
Education, Equality and Human Rights
Issues of gender, 'race', sexuality, disability and social class
Mike Cole(Editor)
Routledge (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Published on 17. November 2011
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-0-415-58417-3 (ISBN)
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Description
`Addressing issues that include the challenge of disability discrimination in schooling, gender and equality, `race' and racism, sexuality and social justice, and class analysis and knowledge formation, Education, Equality and Human Rights is an urgent and important contribution to the social justice literature as it intersects with current educational debates and struggles.' Professor Peter McLaren, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Education, Equality and Human Rights traces the history of diverse equality issues up to the present, and enables readers to assess their continuing relevance in the future. Written by experts in their particular field, each of the five equality issues of gender, `race', sexual orientation, disability and social class are covered as areas in their own right as well as in relation to education. This third edition has been fully revised to reflect major changes in law and policy and offers contemporary perspectives on world-wide equality issues.
Key issues explored include:
human rights and equality
gender
gender and education
racism
racism and Education
sexuality and identity
sexuality and homophobia in schools
the struggle for disability equality
inclusive education
social class
social Class and education.
With a new foreword by leading educationist Peter McLaren, this comprehensive, accessible and thought-provoking book will be of interest to teachers, student teachers, education students, and all those more generally interested in issues of equality and human rights.
Education, Equality and Human Rights traces the history of diverse equality issues up to the present, and enables readers to assess their continuing relevance in the future. Written by experts in their particular field, each of the five equality issues of gender, `race', sexual orientation, disability and social class are covered as areas in their own right as well as in relation to education. This third edition has been fully revised to reflect major changes in law and policy and offers contemporary perspectives on world-wide equality issues.
Key issues explored include:
human rights and equality
gender
gender and education
racism
racism and Education
sexuality and identity
sexuality and homophobia in schools
the struggle for disability equality
inclusive education
social class
social Class and education.
With a new foreword by leading educationist Peter McLaren, this comprehensive, accessible and thought-provoking book will be of interest to teachers, student teachers, education students, and all those more generally interested in issues of equality and human rights.
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Edition
3rd New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
6 s/w Tabellen, 4 s/w Zeichnungen
4 Line drawings, black and white; 6 Tables, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
612 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-58417-3 (9780415584173)
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Mike Cole
Education, Equality and Human Rights
Issues of Gender, 'Race', Sexuality, Disability and Social Class
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10/2017
4th Edition
Routledge
€193.13
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Mike Cole
Education, Equality and Human Rights
Issues of gender, 'race', sexuality, disability and social class
Book
11/2011
3rd Edition
Routledge
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Mike Cole
Education, Equality and Human Rights
Issues of gender, 'race', sexuality, disability and social class
Book
03/2006
2nd Edition
Routledge
€148.56
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Person
Mike Cole is Emeritus Research Professor in Education and Equality at Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln, UK. He has published a number of books in the field of education and equality and is well known for his research into issues of Marxism and educational theory.
Content
Foreword by Peter McLaren- Capital Unchained: The Decomposition of World Civilization 1. Introduction: human rights, equality and education - Mike Cole 2. Unfinished business: women still unequal after forty years- Jane Kelly 3. Gender and education: continuity and difference- Jane Martin 4. Racism in the UK: change and continuity- Mike Cole 5. Racism and education: from Empire to ConDem.- Mike Cole 6. The making of sexualities: sexuality, identity and equality- Simon Forrest and Viv Ellis 7. Straight talking: challenges in teaching and learning about sexuality and homophobia in schools- Simon Forrest 8. The struggle for disability- Richard Rieser 9. Inclusive education: a human right- Richard Rieser 10. Social class, Marxism and twenty-first century socialism- Martin Cole 11. Social class and schooling: differentiation or democracy?- Richard Hatcher