Rethinking inequalities between deindustrialisation, schools and educational research in Geelong. Issue 4 (21st March 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mayes, Eve; Keddie, Amanda; Moss, Julianne; Rawolle, Shaun; Paatsch, Louise; Kelly, Merinda
• Is Part Of: Educational philosophy and theory. Volume 51:Issue 4(2019)
• Page Start: 391
• Page End: 403
• Publication Date: 2019-03-21
• Subjects: Inequality -- deindustrialisation -- new materialism -- Barad -- affect -- space; Education -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; Teaching -- Periodicals; Éducation; Philosophie de l'éducation; Théorie de l'éducation; Périodique électronique (Descripteur de forme); Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme); 370.1
• DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2018.1466701
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0013-1857

Abstract

Abstract: Inequalities have historically been conceptualised and empirically explored with primary reference to the human. Both measurements of educational inequalities through the production of data about students, teachers and schools, and ethnographic explorations of inequalities in the spoken accounts of human actors in schools can elide affective histories and material geologies of the earth that entwine with societal inequalities, and political questions of the relation between particular human bodies and the earth. In this article, we question: What might it do to rethink the concept of educational inequalities beyond human relations, from within a specific geographical territory? We seek to rethink inequalities including but exceeding these human relations; we argue that inequalities between humans, and between humans and the more-than-human, are materially generated and perpetuated. We offer three theoretical trajectories that consider the affective, spatial and material dimensions of inequality to rethink the relations between inequality, deindustrialisation and schooling. Educational research is implicated in the (re)production of inequalities, as well as having the potential to be part of the production of more equitable relations.