Removing the Margins - Softcover

Sefa Dei, George J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551301539 ISBN 13: 9781551301532

Publisher: Canadian Scholars Press, 2000

Synopsis

Removing the Margins holds that education should be about producing knowledge for social action. Inclusivity goes beyond special education or special interests and is intrinsically tied to how schools respond to the needs and concerns of all students from diverse racial, ethnic, gender, sexual class, religious, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds. All students are cheated when a dominant, rather than a diverse, learning environment is provided. By collapsing the artificial boundaries between schools, off-school sites, local communities and families, and by welcoming the spiritualities, languages and indigenous knowledges that students bring with them, schools can be transformed from sources of oppression into sites for social transformation.

About this title

About the Author:

George J. Sefa Dei is Professor of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Irma Marcia James is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, OISE/University of Toronto. Leeno Luke Karumanchery is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, OISE/University of Toronto. Sonia James Wilson is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, OISE/University of Toronto. Jasmin Zine is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, OISE/University of Toronto.

About this edition

• Publisher: Canadian Scholars Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1551301539
• ISBN 13: 9781551301532
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 299