Towards Anti-Racist Educational Research: Radical Moments and Movements

Delane Bender-Slack and Francis Godwyll's book "Towards Anti-Racist Educational Research: Radical Moments and Movements" calls for educational researchers and teachers to engage in the work needed to be anti-racist, emphasizing the importance of addressing racial inequities in education. They define what it could mean to be anti-racist in research methods, projects, and agendas and pose questions about how to ask anti-racist research questions, create anti-racist curricula, design anti-racist policies, and work towards racial justice.

Format: Hardback
Length: 244 pages
Publication date: 28 January 2022
Publisher: Lexington Books

Educational researchers and teachers are urged to take up the critical task of becoming anti-racist in the book "Towards Anti-Racist Educational Research: Radical Moments and Movements." In the realm of academia, neutrality regarding race is simply not an option. One must either embrace the notion of a racial hierarchy or champion the principle of racial equality. Educators and researchers must choose between two distinct perspectives: either attributing problems to specific groups of people or recognizing the underlying influence of power and policies. Consequently, we have a choice to either perpetuate racial disparities or actively address them. Delane Bender-Slack and Francis Godwyll are dedicated to confronting racial inequalities in educational research. As they engage with their roles in radical moments and movements, encompassing diverse identities, perspectives, and positionalities, they strive to recognize their intellectual, social, and cultural contributions as anti-racist. The editors provide a definition of what it means to conduct anti-racist research, develop anti-racist curricula, formulate anti-racist policies, and become racially humanizing educational researchers. They also raise important questions such as how to ask anti-racist research questions, create anti-racist curricula, design anti-racist policies, and intentionally work towards achieving racial justice.

Weight: 567g
Dimension: 237 x 160 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666900132