Educational Diversity

MICHELLE ADDISON PhD student at Newcastle University and Visiting Scholar at the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, London South Bank University, UKSARA AHMED Professor in Race and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UKKIM ALLEN Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Education (IPSE) at London Metropolitan University, UKKATH BRIDGER Director of BSV associates Ltd, UKJON BINNIE Reader in Human Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University, UKSARAH EVANS Engagement Development Manager for Social Sciences at The British Library, UKVAL GILLIES Professor of Social Research and a co-director of the Families & Social Capital Research Group, Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, London South Bank University, UKIAN HODGES is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Westminster, UKSUMI HOLLINGWORTH Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Education (IPSE) at London Metropolitan University, UKYU-CHIEH HSIEH Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Chinese Culture University, TaiwanSANJAY JOBANPUTRA Senior Lecturer in psychology at the University of Westminster, UKELIZABETH MATTHEWS Lecturer at Institutue of Technology, Tallaght, IrelandJOCEY QUINN Professor of Education at the University of Plymouth, UKDIANE REAY a Professor of Education in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge , UKDAMIEN W. RIGGS Senior Lecturer in social work at Flinders University, AustraliaANTHEA ROSE is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Education (IPSE) at London Metropolitan University, UKJENNY SHAW Head of Higher Education Engagement for the UNITE Group, UKVANITA SUNDARMA Lecturer in Education at the University of York, UK

"'Diversity' superseded equal opportunity only to bring about inertia and a happy clappy multicultural tick box culture in our educational institutions. Taylor's powerful scholarly collection breathes a breath of fresh air to the whole messy and confusing 'diversity' debate, showing the impact of the bureaucratic 'diversity' malaise on the day to day reality of underrepresented and disadvantage groups who live within the struggle and fight back. This book is vital reading for all those who care about social justice and equality in our places of learning and teaching." Heidi Safia Mirza, Professor of Equalities Studies in Education Institute of Education, University of London, UK and author of Respecting Difference: Race, Faith and Culture for Teacher Educators. "This book offers to critical scholarship some of the most sophisticated contemporary thinking and research on 'diversity' as a discursive trope and embodied reality. Ranging across the globe as source of its chapters authors discuss 'diversity' as it is lived and legislated for in the UK, Ireland, Australia and Taiwan focussing on the spaces of mainstream or 'special' schooling, elite or 'access' higher education institutions and routes to employment (or not). This is a rich wide-ranging edited collection informed by the vivid vocabularies of feminisms, cultural sociology as well as the classic sociological concerns with class. All the contributions though are shaped by a common intellectual and political ambition to perturb the normative regulation of those deemed as 'different'. These authors resist 'diversity' as a perfunctory performance indicator, to show that who is made 'diverse' or who can trade in 'diversity', works as an incipient geometry of power. This collection is therefore to be welcomed as it puts this formation under powerful scrutiny generating important resources for educators committed to asking awkward questions of educational and social inequalities." Valerie Hey, Professor of Education, University of Sussex, UK "Educational Diversity is a rich interdisciplinary collection showcasing a wide range of theoretical approaches and methodologies ... a very useful read for anyone with an interest in education and social justice because of the way it raises issues and gathers interdisciplinary strands" - Feminist and Women's Studies Association Blog

• Educational Diversity: The Subject of Difference and Different Subjects; Y.Taylor Doing Diversity Differently; D.Reay Space, Affect and Value: A Commentary on Educational Diversity: The Subject of Difference and Different Subjects; J.Binnie PART I: COMPULSORY EDUCATION, COMPELLING DIVERSITY Inclusion through Exclusion: A Critical Account of New Behaviour Management Practices in Schools; V.Gillies 'It's just them, not us': Doing Research with Children Designated as Having SEN: Identity, Agency and Voice; V.Sundaram  & A.Wilde Learning to be Hearing: Is the Mainstream School a Space for Normalising Deaf Children?; E.Mathews Shaping Young People's Gender and Sexual Identities in Taiwan: Can Teaching Practices Produce Diverse Subjects?; Y.Hsieh PART II: HIGHER EDUCATION, HIGHER STANDARDS? Unpicking that 'Something Special': Background and the University Application Process; S.Evans Beyond 'Inclusion': Student Diversity as a Learning Resource; J.Shaw  & K.Bridger Mapping Exclusion in Undergraduate Psychology: Towards a Common Architecture of the Minority Student Experience; I.Hodges  & S.Jobanputra Embodying Diversity and Pedagogies of Progress; K.Inckle Doing Diversity and Evading Equality: The Case of Student Work Placements in the Creative Sector; K.Allen , J.Quinn , S.Hollingworth  & A.Rose PART III: BOUNDARY CONDITIONS Embodying Diversity: Problems and Paradoxes for Black Feminists; S.Ahmed Talking about 'Diverse Genders and Sexualities' Means Talking about More Than White Middle-Class Queers; D.W.Riggs Feeling Your Way within and Across Classed Spaces: The (Re)making and (Un)doing of Identities of Value within Higher Education in the UK; M.Addison Facts, Fictions, Identity Constrictions: Sexuality, Gender and Class in Higher Education; Y.Taylor Bibliography Index