Mon, Feb. 10, 2025 16:00:00 — 18:00:00 AEST
Session 6 - Professor Arathi Sriprakash (Professor of Sociology and Education, University of Oxford)
Abstract
Reparations and Reparative Justice in the field of Education
It is almost a truism to say that schooling systems are structurally unjust. Inequalities of opportunity are a feature of education systems across the world. This seminar explores the possibility of reparative frameworks to address the structural injustices of education systems – particularly relating to racial and classed dispossession. The idea of reparation requires us to understand the interconnections between past, present and future in both the formation of injustice and its repair. Arguably, until injustices are actively addressed, they can endure in social institutions – such as education – which also shape lives-to-come. But what does reparation in education look like? A new five-year participatory research project – Reparative Futures of Education (Repair-Ed) – seeks to explore this very question, focusing on the city of Bristol, England and its histories and geographies of inequality. I argue that injustice is not an inevitability in reparative futures of education: these are new, if challenging, horizons for the politics and practice of education.
- Focus: Reparations and reparative justice in education
- Monday 10th February 2025, 4pm - 5pm AEST (online), 4pm - 6pm AEST (in-person at University of Queensland, Brisbane City, Room 223)
- Blended in-person and over Zoom