Toward an equitable education

While we need to be legitimately concerned about the social and educational effects of labeling, the well-meaning concern of liberal discourse on this question produces the guise of color and class blindness, as in “I don’t see colour; I see children.” This unwillingness to acknowledge difference is an expression of privilege related to the conflation of equality (treating people the same) and equ [...] For example, instead of learning about the abstract and depoliticized science of water, one school community in our project located a study of water in the 21st century in the fact that water in the school and community was not potable. [...] CONCLUDING COMMENT In this section we have identified the focus and objectives of the study, and the research and theoretical stance adopted, and we provided an overview of issues from the literature in relation to theoretical stances and issues arising from the data. [...] It implies an “ethic of care” in which the welfare of students as whole people is taken seriously, in which home and community become part of the fabric of the life of the school, in which concern for the quality of relationships is extended among. [...] In any case, the quality of The quality of relationships relationships between and across faculty, including school between and across faculty, administrators, set the tone for the school, and had far- including school administrators, reaching consequences that ultimately touched students set the tone for the school, and and families.