Social Justice in Practice in Education

Janice Wearmouth is professor of education and co-director of the Institute for Research in Education, at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. Karen Lindley is a senior lecturer in education at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. Uvanney Maylor is professor of education and co-director of the Institute for Research in Education, at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. James Shea is the portfolio leader for all the teacher education courses in the School of Education at the University of Bedfordshire, UK.

1. The impact of life experiences on learning and the return to formal education in the HE classroom 2. Experiences of autism in higher education 3. How reforms of teacher education challenge principles of social justice 4. Reflections of a mathematics educator: What can we learn from those we teach?
5. Reflections on the challenges faced by school leaders
6. Inclusion, exclusion, social justice and children’s rights to education. Reflections of a former secondary school inclusion manager
7. How far can student voice enable teachers to adapt teaching in classrooms and support improved teaching and learning? 8. Roots and Wings: enabling a sense of identity, social inclusion and opportunities for growth in the Early Years curriculum
9. Reflections on mindfulness and its implications for social justice in the Early Years
10. Teaching assistants as facilitators of learning and engagement: promoting social justice for students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) 11. Engaging with the views of young people with severe, profound and multiple learning difficulties
12. It takes a village to raise a child. Issues from a parent’s personal narrative of raising a young man with learning difficulties supported by family, friends, and the wider community
13. An autistic teenager’s experiences through the years of schooling