Gillborn, David (2006) Critical Race Theory and Education: racism and anti-racism in educational theory and praxis. Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education, 27 (1). pp. 11-32. ISSN Print: 0159-6306 Online: 1469-3739
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Abstract
What is Critical Race Theory (CRT) and what does it offer educational researchers and practitioners outside the US? This paper addresses these questions by examining the recent history of antiracist research and policy in the UK. In particular, the paper argues that conventional forms of antiracism have proven unable to keep pace with the development of increasingly racist and exclusionary education polices that operate beneath a veneer of professed tolerance and diversity. In particular, contemporary antiracism lacks clear statements of principle and theory that risk reinventing the wheel with each new study; it is increasingly reduced to a meaningless slogan; and it risks appropriation within a reformist “can do” perspective dominated by the de-politicized and managerialist language of school effectiveness and improvement. In contrast, CRT offers a genuinely radical and coherent set of approaches that could revitalize critical research in education across a range of inquiries, not only in self-consciously "multicultural" studies. The paper reviews the developing terrain of CRT in education, identifying its key defining elements and the conceptual tools that characterise the work. CRT in education is a fast changing and incomplete project but it can no longer be ignored by the academy beyond North America.
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| Additional Information: | This is an electronic version of an article published in Gillborn, David (2006) Critical Race Theory and Education: racism and anti-racism in educational theory and praxis. Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education, 27 (1). pp. 11-32. Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/01596300500510229 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Diversity Ethnicity Equal opportunities Multiculturalism Race Social inclusion Philosophy of education Public policy analysis Cultural influences on education Sociology |
| Subjects: | Departments > Education Foundations and Policy Studies |
| Depositing User: | IOE Repository Editor (2) |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Mar 2010 16:13 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jun 2012 22:27 |
| URI: | http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/1661 |
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