Towards Anti-Racist Educational Research: Radical Moments and Movements

"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, challenging the idea of neutrality in race and addressing racial inequities in research methods, projects, and agendas. The editors 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: Paperback / softback
Length: 244 pages
Publication date: 15 May 2024
Publisher: Lexington Books

Towards Anti-Racist Educational Research: Radical Moments and Movements is a call to action for educational researchers and teachers to engage in the necessary work to become anti-racist. In the academic realm, there is no room for neutrality when it comes to race. One must either embrace the notion of a racial hierarchy or advocate for racial equality. Educators and researchers either view problems as stemming from specific groups of individuals or as rooted in power and policies. As a result, we can either choose to perpetuate racial disparities or confront them head-on. Delane Bender-Slack and Francis Godwyll are committed to addressing these racial disparities in educational research. As they continue to navigate their roles in radical moments and movements, representing diverse identities, perspectives, and positions, they strive to recognize and acknowledge their intellectual, social, and cultural labor as anti-racist in their research and in this writing. The editors provide a comprehensive definition of what it means to be anti-racist in research methods, projects, and agendas, and they pose critical questions: How do we formulate anti-racist research questions? How do we develop anti-racist curricula? How do we design anti-racist policies? What does it mean to be racially humanizing educational researchers? How can we actively work towards racial justice?

Weight: 390g
Dimension: 227 x 152 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666900156