In recent months, both the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement have been lenses through which to wider and global underlying issues of societal inequality and iniquity. While acknowledging the situation specific aspects to movements, BLM has caught the global imagination, underlining and reflecting the differences in privilege, power, resources, and access to education of poor and marginalised communities throughout the world, which have only been highlighted by the global pandemic, and the stark differences in access to education. This plenary panel will bring together a diverse group of educators to discuss inclusive education, and people’s experiences of access to, and participation in education, and the structures and cultures that encourage and nurture, or conversely discourage and inhibit.
Panelists:
Kwame Akyeampong, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Christine Callender, UCL Institute of Education, United Kingdom
Tam Cane, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Farish A. Noor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Tamsin Hinton-Smith, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Krisna Uk, Association of Asian Studies, USA (moderator)
