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Owner: Mel Ainscow
Owner Email: mel.ainscow@manchester.ac.uk
Paper Title: Promoting Inclusion and Equity in Latin America: Making Sense of the Challenges
Session Title: International Perspectives on Equity and Opportunities to Learn
Paper Type: Paper
Presentation Date: 4/6/2019
Presentation Location: Toronto, Canada
Descriptors: Equity, Evidence Based Education, Social Justice
Methodology: Mixed Method
Author(s): Mel Ainscow, University of Manchester; Ignacio Calderon-Almendros, University of Malaga
Unit: International Relations Committee
Abstract: Relevant to the theme of using research knowledge to promote educational developments, this paper draws on its authors’ experiences of engaging with the narratives of communities in Latin America implicated in the promotion of inclusion and equity. It illustrates how the voices of students, teachers and families can throw light on the challenges involved. The paper shows how their conditions, achievements, fears and hopes can help us understand better their complex realities and how to remake and shape our theories of change. Incorporating the views of different stakeholders, the paper focuses on the process of helping people to become critically conscious about their realities, at the same time developing theoretical tools to help them become more inclusive in their thinking.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3102/1428677