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Unsettling the Gap: Race, Politics and Indigenous Education

Unsettling the Gap: Race, Politics and Indigenous Education

Hardcover

Series: Global Studies in Education, Book 36

General Education

ISBN10: 1433159155
ISBN13: 9781433159152
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Nov 30 2018
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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