The Global Quest for Educational Equity Through Research, Remedy, and Repair

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session will describe how nations in various parts of the world use ideas related to research, remedy, and repair to develop and implement interventions to increase educational equity for diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic groups of students in elementary and secondary schools. Equity exists when diverse groups achieve equally with mainstream middle-class groups. This means that some groups, such as Black students in England, Muslim students in China and Hong Kong, and Indigenous students in Mexico will often need distinctive educational interventions to attain the same achievement levels as mainstream students.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• James A. Banks, University of Washington

Papers

• Globalization, Immigrant Origin Students, and the Quest for Educational Equity - Carola Suarez-Orozco, Harvard University

• How Pedagogy Makes the Difference in US Schools - Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• The Quest for Educational Equity in Schools in Mainland China and Hong Kong - Jason Cong Lin, The Education University of Hong Kong

• The Quest for Educational Equity in Mexico - Fernando M. Reimers, Harvard University

• Refugee Education: Aligning Access, Learning, and Opportunity - Sarah E. Dryden-Peterson, Harvard University

• The Long Struggle for Educational Equity in Britain:1944-2023 - Audrey Helen Osler, University of Leeds

Discussant

• Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts - Amherst