Education, Equality and Human Rights: Issues of gender, 'race', sexuality, disability and social class

‘Addressing issues that include the challenge of disability discrimination in schooling, gender and equality, ‘race’ and racism, sexuality and social justice, and class analysis and knowledge formation, Education, Equality and Human Rights is an urgent and important contribution to the social justice literature as it intersects with current educational debates and struggles.’ Professor Peter McLaren, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Education, Equality and Human Rights traces the history of diverse equality issues up to the present, and enables readers to assess their continuing relevance in the future. Written by experts in their particular field, each of the five equality issues of gender, ‘race’, sexual orientation, disability and social class are covered as areas in their own right as well as in relation to education. This third edition has been fully revised to reflect major changes in law and policy and offers contemporary perspectives on world-wide equality issues.

Key issues explored include:

• human rights and equality
• gender
• gender and education
• racism
• racism and Education
• sexuality and identity
• sexuality and homophobia in schools
• the struggle for disability equality
• inclusive education
• social class
• social Class and education.

With a new foreword by leading educationist Peter McLaren, this comprehensive, accessible and thought-provoking book will be of interest to teachers, student teachers, education students, and all those more generally interested in issues of equality and human rights.

Mike Cole is Emeritus Research Professor in Education and Equality at Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln, UK. He has published a number of books in the field of education and equality and is well known for his research into issues of Marxism and educational theory.