Doing equity and diversity for success in higher education : redressing structural inequalities in the academy /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Thomas, Dave S. P. (Editor), Arday, Jason (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Series:Palgrave studies in race, inequality and social justice in education.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: The Owl of Minerva Has Flown: Can Equity and Diversity be Done for Success in Higher Education Now?
  • Part I. A Review of the Past and a Look into the Future
  • 2. The Myth of Academic Underperformance and Notions of Truth 52 Years After the Passing of the Race Relations Act 1968: In Conversation with Dame Jocelyn Barrow
  • 3. A Diverse Society Needs Diverse Solutions
  • 4. What We Dont, but Should Know
  • 5. Decolonisation or Empowerment in Higher Education?
  • 6 Travelling Between Historical Memory and the Current Predicament of Educational Reforms in Higher Education: A Transnational Perspective
  • 7. Fencing the Race: Responding to the Past to Help Shape the Future. Part II. Equality, Diversity, Inclusivity or Decolonisation: The Big Conundrum
  • 8. Decolonising Academic Spaces: Moving Beyond Diversity to Promote Racial Equity in Postsecondary Education
  • 9. Towards the Unmaking of Canons: Decolonising the Study of Literature
  • 10. Merit Success and the Epistemic Logics of Whiteness in Racialised Education Systems
  • 11. Decolonising the Academy: A Look at Student-Led Interventions in the UK
  • 12. On the Fallacy of Decolonisation in Our Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)
  • 13. Diversify or Decolonise? What You Can Do Right Now and How to Get Started
  • Part III. Big Data: Am I a Name or Number?
  • 14. The Unknown Student, and Other Short Stories: An Ethical and Methodological Exploration of Students as Data
  • 15. Turning Big Data into Informed Action
  • 16. Using Data-Driven Approaches to Address Systematic Awarding Gaps
  • Part IV. Identity and Belonging for Outliers, Space Invaders and Others Within the Brick Walls
  • 17. Recruitment, Retention and Progression: Navigating the Flashpoints of Gender, Race and Religious Discrimination in Higher Education
  • 18. Reflections on Redressing Racial Inequalities, When Teaching Race in the Sociology of Sport and Physical Education
  • 19. Fighting Back While Black: The Relationship Between Racialised Resistance and Well-Being
  • 20. In Whose Interest Is Training the Dog? Black Academics Reflection on Academic Development for Access and Success in a Historically White University in South Africa
  • 21. Understanding Critical Whiteness Studies: Harmful or Helpful in the Struggle for Racial Equity in the Academy?
  • 22. Who Feels It Knows It! Alterity, Identity and Epistemological Privilege: Challenging White Privilege from a Black Perspective Within the Academy
  • 23. Many Rivers to Cross: The Challenges and Barriers Facing Aspiring Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Leaders in the Academy
  • 24. Understanding and Interrupting Systemic Racism: A Race Equality Receipt as a Mechanism to Promote Transformational Conversations and Stimulate Actions to Redress Race Inequality
  • 25. Sowing the Seeds: Embracing and Re-imaging a More Racially Inclusive Academy.