Pursuing equity and excellence is our core commitment
Our work brings to light the many factors affecting educational opportunities and outcomes—to ensure that everyone benefits from diverse learning experiences. We provide leadership in seeking to understand equity and excellence in education, as well as how opportunities and advantages are constructed and constrained. We are pioneers in investigating how social justice, transformation, advantage and disadvantage change as we develop new ways of talking about diversity.
Major areas
- Understanding diversities and impact on learning
- Pedagogic rights
- Home and community partnerships
- Arts-based pedagogies for social justice
Highlights
Bernstein’s recontextualization ideas
This site is part of the broader Educational Justice, Equity and Excellence Research Program at the Griffith Institute of Educational Research.
Here our members discuss issues such as Bernstein’s recontextualisation ideas in school-based curriculum and teacher’s professional concerns.
Educational justice, equity and excellence project (EDJEE)
EDJEE researchers confront 'wicked educational problems', persistent issues such as education inequality and the widening ‘Achievement Gap’, to create a more equitable educational system that helps everyone.
We focus on four areas including:
- students dis-engagement from learning
- literacy interventions across the curriculum
- partnering with teachers to disrupt patterns of inequality
- engaging parents and the community through knowledge committees
Key researchers include Professor Parlo Singh, Professor Beryl Exley, Dr Susan Whatman, Dr Debbie Bargallie and Associate Professor Jennifer Alford.
Yugambeh Education Alliance
Yugambeh Education Alliance – Lead Dr Candace Krugar