Resisting Educational Inequality : Reframing Policy and Practice in Schools Serving Vulnerable Communities (Paperback)

1. Resisting educational inequality
Susanne Gannon, Robert Hattam, Wayne Sawyer

Focus area 1: Mapping the damage

2. Resisting educational inequity and the ‘bracketing out’ of disadvantage in contemporary schooling
Stewart Riddle

3. Beyond ‘naive possibilitarianism’ in urban schools in England
Lori Beckett

4. Moving beyond the academic and vocational divide in Australian schools
Barry Down

5. Beginning teacher subjectivity and pedagogical encounters in low-SES schools
Susanne Gannon

6. Challenging beginning teachers’ misconceptions of the effects of poverty on educational attainment in an initial teacher education program in England
Ian Thompson

7. Circling a conflicted policy landscape: Child poverty and education in Northern Ireland
Tony Gallagher, Ruth Leitch, Joanne Hughes

8. Mapping possible futures: Funds of aspiration and educational desire 
Susanne Gannon, Mohamed Moustakim, Dorian Stoilescu, David Wright 

Focus area 2: Resources for hope

9. Effective pedagogies for enhancing preschoolers’ engagement with learning in disadvantaged communities
Leonie Arthur, Christine Woodrow

10. Creating space for a shared repertoire: Re-imagining pedagogies to cultivate transcultural and translingual competencies
Jacqueline D'Warte

11. Teacher development through collaborative research in low-SES contexts: A tale of two schools
Katina Zammit, Wayne Sawyer

12. Poverty and school processes: From equality of opportunity to relational justice
Karen Laing, Laura Mazzoli Smith, Liz Todd

13. Hope, spaces, and possible selves: Processes of becoming socially critical teachers
Alison Wrench

14. Quality teaching discourses: A contested terrain
Jo Lampert, Bruce Burnett, Barbara Comber, Angela Ferguson, Naomi Barnes

15. Realigning young peoples’ aspirations: Triggers and processes
Katrina Barker, Margaret Vickers

16. Ideas of community: Assembling new governance in Early Childhood Education
Anne Power, Christine Woodrow, Joanne Orlando

17. ‘Dumping grounds’ and ‘rubbish tips’: Challenging metaphors for alternative education provision
Martin Mills, Richard Waters, Peter Renshaw, Lew Zipin 

Focus area 3: How might we reframe research, policy and practice in the future?

18. Ethnographies in education: Misunderstandings and new developments
Debra Hayes, Meghan Stacey

19. Researching the ‘North’: Educational ethnography of a (sub)urban region
Robert Hattam

20. Educational exclusion? It’s what we do and it’s always been thus
Roger Slee

21. Education and tackling poverty: Can education compensate for society?
David Egan

22. Transforming the curriculum frame: Working knowledge around problems that matter
Lew Zipin, Marie Brennan

23. Schools as sites of advanced capitalism: Reading radical inequality radically
Margaret Somerville

24. Poor children need rich teaching, not deficit labelling
Terry Wrigley

25. Writing as bodywork: poverty, literacy and unspoken pain in ex-mining south Wales valleys communities
Gabrielle Ivinson, Emma Renold

26. Reclaiming educational equality: Towards a manifesto.
Robert Hattam, Wayne Sawyer, Susanne Gannon