Description: Further DetailsTitle: Unsettling the GapCondition: NewSubtitle: Race, Politics and Indigenous EducationEAN: 9781433159152ISBN: 9781433159152Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 11/30/2018Description: Unsettling the Gap: Race, Politics and Indigenous Education examines pressing issues of inequality in education. The notion of gap—and the need to close it—is used widely in public and policy debates to name the nature and scope of disadvantage. In the competitive world of education, gaps have become associated with students who are seen to be "falling behind," "failing" or "dropping out." A global deficit discourse is, therefore, mobilised and normalised. But this discourse has a history and is deeply political. Unsettling the Gap examines this history and how it is politically activated through an analysis of the "Australian Closing the Gap in Indigenous Disadvantage" policy. In this policy discourse the notion of gap serves as a complex and multiple signifier, attached to individuals, communities and to national history. In unravelling these diverse modalities of gap, the text illuminates the types of ruling binaries that tend to direct dynamics of power and knowledge in a settler colonial context. This reveals not only the features of the crisis of "Indigenous educational disadvantage" that the policy seeks to address, but the undercurrents of a different type of crisis, namely the authority of the settler colonial state. By unsettling the normalised functions of gap discourse the book urges critical reflections on the problem of settler colonial authority and how it constrains the possibilities of Indigenous educational justice.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 225mmItem Length: 150mmItem Weight: 395gAuthor: Sophie RudolphGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: Global Studies in EducationTopic: Children's Learning & EducationRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Unsettling the Gap
Title: Unsettling the Gap
Subtitle: Race, Politics and Indigenous Education
EAN: 9781433159152
ISBN: 9781433159152
Release Date: 11/30/2018
Release Year: 2018
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Children's Learning & Education
Number of Pages: 204 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Unsettling the Gap : Race, Politics and Indigenous Education
Publisher: Lang A&G International Academic Publishers, Peter
Subject: Educational Policy & Reform / General, Multicultural Education, Indigenous Studies, General
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2018
Features: New Edition
Item Weight: 15.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Social Science, Education
Author: Sophie Rudolph
Item Length: 9 in
Series: Global Studies in Education Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
