Diversity, equity, inclusion and education

GU 2025/2715

Ahmed, S. (2012). On being included: Racism and diversity in institutional life. Duke University Press.

Bagga-Gupta, S., Messina Dahlberg, G., Vigmo, S. (2020). Equity and social justice for whom and by whom in contemporary higher education? Situated-distributed policies of inclusion/integration in Sweden. Learning and Teaching. The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 13(3), 82-110.

Batstra, L., van Roy, M., & Thoutenhoofd, E. D. (2021). Teachers with Special Needs. De-Psychiatrization of Children in Schools. Frontiers in Sociology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.781057

Cheang, S., & Suterwalla, S. (2020). Decolonizing the Curriculum? Transformation, Emotion, and Positionality in Teaching. Fashion Theory, 24(6), 879–900. https://doi.org/10.1080/1362704X.2020.1800989

Connor, D. J., Ferri, B. A., & Annamma, S. (Eds.). (2016). DisCrit: Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education. Teachers College Press.

Haualand, H., Hjulstad, J., Ødemark, I. L., & Kermit, P. (2024). Where Can I Sign My Language? A Systematic Literature Review (2000–2019) of Young People’s Access to Sign Language Socialisation Spaces in the Nordic Countries. Disability Studies Quarterly, 44(1). https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v44i1.8409

Henner, J., & Robinson, O. (2023). Unsettling Languages, Unruly Bodyminds: A Crip Linguistics Manifesto. Journal of Critical Study of Communication & Disability, 7–37. https://doi.org/10.48516/JCSCD_2023VOL1ISS1.4

Matimolane, M., Ganas, R., & Padayachee, K. (2018). Addressing Curriculum Decolonisation and Education for Sustainable Development Through Epistemically Diverse Curricula. South African Journal of Higher Education, 32(6), 288–304. https://doi.org/10.20853/32-6-2986

McCall, L. (2005). The Complexity of Intersectionality. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 30(3), 1771–1800. (29 pages).

Merry, M. S. (2014). Equality, Citizenship, and Segregation: A Defense of Separation (First Palgrave Macmillan Paperback ed.). Palgrave Macmillan.

Messina Dahlberg, G., Vigmo, S., & Surian, A. (2021). Widening Participation? (Re)Searching Institutional Pathways in Higher Education for Migrant Students – The Cases of Sweden and Italy. Frontline Learning Research, 9(2), 137–161.

Mignolo, W. (2013). Geopolitics of Sensing and Knowing: On (De)Coloniality, Border Thinking, and Epistemic Disobedience. Confero: Essays on Education, Philosophy and Politics, 1(1), 129–150.

Mullins, R. D. (2019). Using Dewey’s Conception of Democracy to Problematize the Notion of Disability in Public Education. Journal of Culture and Values in Education, 2(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.46303/jcve.02.01.1

Nussbaum, M. C. (2013). Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach (First Harvard University Press Paperback ed.). The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Parekh, G. (2023). Ableism in Education: Rethinking School Practices and Policies. Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781032677965/ableism-education-gillian-parekh

Pashby, K., Da Costa, M., Stein, S., & Andreotti, V. (2020). A Meta-Review of Typologies of Global Citizenship Education. Comparative Education, 56(2), 144–164.

Sen, A. (1992). Inequality Re-Examined. Oxford University Press.

Tremain, S. L. (2018). Philosophy of Disability as Critical Diversity Studies. International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies, 1(1), 30–44. https://doi.org/10.13169/intecritdivestud.1.1.0030

Recommended Reading

Braidotti, R. (2011). Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory (2nd ed.). Columbia University Press.

Gross, B., & Messina Dahlberg, G. (2025). The Premises and Promises of Diversity-Sensitive Education Beyond Boundaries: Attempts at Decolonizing Educational Policies, Research and Practices. In S. Bagga-Gupta (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Decolonizing Educational and Language Sciences. Palgrave.

Lykke, N. (2010). Feminist Studies: A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Methodology and Writing. Routledge.

Mackenzie, C. (Ed.). (2014). Vulnerability: New Essays in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy. Oxford University Press.

Mignolo, W. (2012). Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking. Princeton University Press.

Nussbaum, M. C. (2000). Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. Cambridge University Press.

Rose, D. S. (2022). Mad Knowledges and User-Led Research. Palgrave Macmillan.

Sen, A. (2021). Home in the World: A Memoir. Allen Lane.