EDUCATION, EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS – MIKE COLE –
BOOK LAUNCH
BOOK LAUNCH
Education, Equality and Human Rights: Rights: Issues of Gender, ‘Race’, Sexuality, Disability and Social
Class –
Edited by Mike Cole
Professor
Mike Cole, is a Professor of Education at the University of East London, UK
This event will be held at:
The Cass School of Education and Communities, Room
RB.G.13, Stratford Campus, University of East London, Water Lane, London, E15
4LZ
On: 31 January 2018, at 17.00-19.00
THE BOOK:
The fourth
edition of Education,
Equality and Human Rights has been fully updated to reflect
the economic, political, social and cultural changes in educational and
political policy and practice, as austerity continues and in the light of the
EU referendum. Written by a carefully selected group of experts, each of the
five equality issues of gender, ‘race’, sexuality, disability and social class
are covered as areas in their own right as well as in relation to education.
Key
issues explored include:
·
Human rights, equality and education
·
Women and equality, historically and now
·
Gender and education perspectives throughout time
·
Racism in the UK from the Empire to the present
·
Racism and education from imperial times to the May government
·
The making and remaking of sexualities
·
The challenges surrounding teaching and learning about sexuality
in schools
·
The struggle for disability equality
·
Inclusive education
·
Social class, Marxism and socialism
·
Social class inequality and education.
With an uncompromising and rigorous analysis of education and human rights and
a foreword from Professor Peter McLaren, Education, Equality and Human Rights is
an essential resource across a wide range of disciplines and for all those
interested in education, social policy and human rights.
Mike
Cole is Professor of Education at the University of East London, UK.
His latest
books are Racism: A Critical Analysis (2016); Critical
Race Theory and Education: A Marxist Response, Revised Second Edition (2017),
and New Developments in Critical Race Theory and Education:
Revisiting Racialized Capitalism and Socialism in Austerity (2017).
The
Contributors:
Simon Forrest is Professor of Social
Sciences in Medicine and Head of the School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health at
Durham University. He has a background in school teaching and research related
to young people’s sexual lifestyles, risks, relationships and identities. He
has co-authored a book supporting teaching about homosexuality in the context
of schools, Talking About Homosexuality in the Secondary School (AVERT,
1997), and has since published numerous papers and other articles in the field
of young people’s sexual attitudes and lifestyles. He is Chair of the Board of
Trustees at AVERT, a leading global AIDS charity, and contributes to local and
national initiatives aiming to support boys and young men.
Jane
Kelly taught Art History and Women’s Studies at Kingston University
until she retired in 2002. Since then she has been involved in Southwark Day
Centre for Asylum Seekers which has three day centres, each open one day a
week. In addition, she has recently rejoined the Labour Party.
Alpesh
Maisuria is a Senior Lecturer with an expertise in social class and
educational
policy. His current research is based on the neoliberalisation of education in
England, drawing upon Marxism and critical realism to understand these
developments as ideologically driven. He also has an interest in Swedish social
democracy and communism and education policy. He is also Deputy Editor of
the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (JCEPS).
Jane
Martin is Professor of Social History of Education at the University of
Birmingham. Her first book, Women and the Politics of Schooling in
Victorian and Edwardian England, won the History of Education Society (UK)
Book Prize in 2002. She has published widely in various international journals
in the field of gender and education, history of education, sociology of
education and women’s history. She is joint editor of the Routledge Progressive
Education Series. Her most recent book is
Making Socialists: Mary Bridges Adams and the Fight for
Knowledge and Power, 1855–1939 (Manchester University Press, 2013). Future
publications include Gender and Education in England since 1770: A
social history to be published in the Palgrave Macmillan Gender and
Women’s History Series in 2018; and a biography of author, teacher and
socialist Caroline Benn (1926–2000).
Peter
McLaren is Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies, College of
Educational
Studies, Chapman University, where he serves as Co-Director
of the Paulo
Freire Democratic Project and International Ambassador for
Global Ethics
and Social Justice. He is also Honorary Chair Professor at
Northeast
Normal University, China, where he serves as Honorary Co-Director of the Center
for Critical Pedagogy Research. Professor McLaren is the author and editor of
45 books, and his writings have been translated into 30 languages.
Richard
Rieser is a disabled teacher, trainer, writer, speaker, campaigner, film
maker, and an international advocate/consultant for inclusive education and
disability equality in many countries around the world. He runs World of
Inclusion Ltd (www.worldofinclusion.com).
As a disabled teacher, Richard taught for 25 years in primary, secondary, FE,
and lastly as an Advisory Teacher for Inclusion in the London Borough of
Hackney. After this he became full-time Director of the charity Disability
Equality in Education, which trained over 120,000 education professionals. All
Richard’s work is prompted by disability equality, inclusion and the social
model of disability. Richard was UKDPC representative at the Ad hoc Committee
framing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. He is
author of the only handbook on implementing Article 24: Inclusive
Education, for the Commonwealth. He has held many positions, including UK
Rep on the European Disability Forum from 2004 to 2012, Chair of the Alliance
for Inclusive Education and Vice Chair of Council for Disabled Children for 12
years and on various UK government committees. He is Coordinator of UK
Disability History Month (www.ukdhm.org).
Recently, World of Inclusion won an award at the Zero Conference, 2016 for a
series of anti-disablist bullying films
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