Social Justice in Education Research Group
“Being oppressed means the absence of choices”
bell hooks
The central aim of the Social Justice Research Group is to identify, analyse and eradicate all types of inequalities in the field of education. The group consists of teacher, youth worker and social worker educators and researchers, and combines analysis, evaluation and activism to research issues of race, class, gender, sexuality and ability and their intersections. Our members have a wide understanding of the field of education as including formal and informal spaces, lifelong learning and public pedagogies. Theory is central to our work, and we focus particularly on Critical Race Theory, Marxism, feminist theories, Critical Disability Studies and poststructuralism. Much of our research critiques the impact of current neoliberal policies on the work and lives of practitioners and learners, and seeks socially just alternatives.
