Equity Issues in Teaching and Teacher Education

ABSTRACT

Concerns about creating greater equity in education are often projected outside of teaching. Yet the creation by teachers of more equitable and inclusive educational experiences and opportunities can play an important part in wider struggles for social justice. We argue that equity must become a central dimension of teacher education to challenge the complex ways that insidious inequalities are reproduced in and through educational frameworks and practices.

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Dr. Matthew Bunn and Dr. Georgina Ramsay for their research assistance for this paper.

Notes

1 Higher School Certificate marks are divided into six bands, with Band 5 being the equivalent of 80–89 marks and the top Band 6 being the equivalent of 90–100 marks.