Special issue: Educational Inclusion
Deadline for abstract submissions: 1st January 2013
Deadline for paper submissions: 1st September 2013

 

 

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This special issue brings together cutting-edge articles on educational inclusion and social justice. It will be published in 2014. Almost five years on from the onset of the global financial and economic crisis, this special issue offers an opportune moment for reflection on the role of education in the pursuit of social inclusion and social justice. Government policy responses have varied in terms of their intensity and timing, but in general there is a strong emphasis on austerity measures, i.e. social spending cuts and related rising unemployment, and growing economic uncertainty.

Such measures point towards potentially greater educational disadvantage for those from poor backgrounds in terms of entrance into higher education and consequently their chances of social mobility and future success in the labour market. Continued and rising levels of discrimination, racism and xenophobia which often accompany such fiscal measures disproportionately affect those with special needs, women, migrants and other racialised populations threatening their human rights and access to key social services.

Against this background, the special issue will explore globally how the concept of ‘inclusion’ works to contribute to a social justice agenda as well as interrogating some of the complexities of the discourses surrounding the terms. It will do so by examining contemporary sociological understandings of inclusion and social justice as they apply to education whether at primary, secondary or higher/adult education.

High quality theoretical and empirical articles are sought which explore these markers of identity and social division in national and international contexts, and those which scrutinise practical, policy and pedagogical approaches to inclusion from a critical sociological perspective. Contributions are welcomed on a range of themes. Potential topics include:

• Theorising education, inclusion and social justice in a changing world
• Neo-liberal globalisation, inclusion and social justice
• International agencies and social justice policies
• European inclusion policies, social justice and education
• Social justice/inclusion in a development context
• Social identities, education and inclusion
• Education, class and social justice
• Gender, education and inclusion
• Race, racism and social justice
• Disability and social justice
• Migrant and refugee communities and social inclusion
• Pedagogies of inclusion/social justice
• Vocational and higher education and inclusion


The special issue will be edited by Kalwant Bhopal (K.Bhopal@soton.ac.uk) and Farzana Shain (f.shain@educ.keele.ac.uk) as members of the British Journal of Sociology of Education Editorial Board. They welcome contributions engaged with sociological studies of education from doctoral or early career to established academics. We urge readers to refer to existing debates on educational inclusion and social justice already published in the journal and to ensure that their article makes an original and theoretically informed contribution to the field.


Abstracts of between 300-500 words: 1st January 2013.

Please send to Helen Oliver, Journal Administrator (h.j.oliver@sheffield.ac.uk)


Full Papers: 1st September 2013 submitted direct to the journal.

The word limit for articles is 8,000 words (maximum) including bibliography. No abstracts or papers will be considered after these closing dates. All manuscripts will be submitted through ScholarOne and subject to the normal double-anonymous refereeing process, but potential authors are welcome to discuss their ideas in advance with the Editors.

For information about the journal see: www.tandfonline.com/bjse


Call for papers: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=cbse20&page=paper

The British Journal of Sociology of Education is one of the most renowned international scholarly journals in the field. The editorial board of the journal brings together the expertise of leading sociologists and rising academics. The aim of the journal is to publish high quality original, theoretically informed analyses of the relationship between education and society. The Journal has an outstanding record of addressing major global debates about the social significance and impact of educational policy, provision, processes and practice in many countries around the world.  

The journal welcomes contributions which explore all phases of formal and informal education. It engages with a diverse range of contemporary and emergent social theories along with the full range of methodological approaches. It investigates the discursive politics of education, social stratification and mobility, the social dimensions of all aspects of pedagogy, and educational experiences from those of the privileged to those of the most disadvantaged. The vitality of the journal is sustained by its commitment to offer independent, critical evaluations of the ways in which education interfaces with local, national, regional and global developments, contexts and agendas. 

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