Posts Tagged ‘in/equality’
This conference on math education and social justice is far away, but it offers food for thought, particularly the workshops.
‘…For the 24 institutions now in the Russell Group, the number of free school meal pupils “in HE by age 19” was 1,580 in 2009-10 and 1,540 in 2010-11, the most recent figures available. For 2010-11, that works out at an average of 64 for each university. For the University of Cambridge the total of […]
This will be the focus for our seminar on January 13th. Every attempt to ‘close an achievement gap’ is rooted in a range of theories which frame what the statistical difference between measurable educational outcomes is and means, why it appears to exist, what if anything can be done to change it, who can have […]
Although these infographics are not directly connected to the discussions we have been having about unequal distributions of achievement in school (the ‘achievement gap’), I was made aware of them today and thought they offered, among other things, an alternative perspective….and some provocation about the imperative of challenging inequalities in and through education. They were produced by a […]
