Education, Equality and Human Rights: Issues of Gender, 'Race', Sexuality, Disability and Social Class, Edition 5

Key issues explored include:

• human rights, equality and education
• women and equality—historically and now
• gender, education and social change
• race and racism through history and today
• racism and education from Empire to Johnson
• sexualities, identities and equality
• challenges in teaching and learning about sexuality and homo- and trans-phobia in schools
• disability equality as the last Civil Right?
• developing inclusive education and governments’ resistance
• social class, neoliberal capitalism and the Marxist alternative
• selective schooling, mystifying social class, neoliberalism and alternatives

With an uncompromising and rigorous analysis of equality issues and a foreword from Peter McLaren addressing challenges to democracy in the US, this new edition of Education, Equality and Human Rights is an essential and contemporary resource across a wide range of disciplines and for all those interested in education, social policy and human rights.