Critical Race Structuralism, Equity, and Inclusion in Education

Greg Wiggan, Annette Teasdell, Marcia J. Watson-Vandiver

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN:
  9783031836145
• eBook ISBN:
  9783031836152
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This volume presents Critical Race Structuralism as a framework for analyzing, explaining, and mitigating social and educational inequities. The book explores structural and systemic issues in schools with the aim of promoting greater DEI in education and beyond. With a focus on diversity and inclusion, it also addresses issues such as school policy, teacher pedagogy, curriculum design, and school leadership. The volume provides in-depth analyses of educational challenges to offer deeper conceptual understandings regarding how education can be used to heal and transcend inequities in schools, society, and beyond.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Critical Race Structuralism: Equity and Inclusion in PreK-12 and Higher Education
• 2. Lessons from Two Florida Women—Zora Neale Hurston and Mary McLeod Bethune: An Examination of Brown vs. Board of Education’s 70th Anniversary and Its Implications for Twenty-First−Century Students
• 3. Examining STEM Violence Against Students of Color: Leveraging Science as a Mechanism for Greater Inclusion
• 4. The Looking Glass: An Examination of the Literature and Framework of bell hooks’ Engaged Pedagogy and Its Intersectional Impact on Education and Black Girlhood
• 5. Examining COVID-19’s Impact on the Reading Levels of America’s Black and Brown [Latinx] Children through a Critical Race Structuralism Lens
• 6. Lifting as We Climb: African American Educators’ Experiences with Service-Learning in U.S. Schools
• 7. Critical Perspectives from an African American School Leader
• 8. “Many Rivers to Cross:” Perceptions of Honors Through the Lens of Critical Race Structuralism
• 9. Sonia Sanchez and the Power of the Spoken Word: Implications for Curriculum and Pedagogy in Schools and Beyond
• 10. Musical Teachers and Decolonization Pedagogy: Critical Race Structuralism and Social and Cultural Transformations
• Back Matter