Accomplishing Meaningful Equity

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Title

Accomplishing Meaningful Equity

Alternate name

Chapter 5

Abstract/Description

This chapter explores how and why the values at the core of improvement research in education (IRE) potentially enable all involved to redress systemic inequity. The volume overall advances the claim that concern with social justice should serve as a cornerstone of IRE. If you are coming to this chapter after reading earlier chapters in this section, you will have noted that preceding chapters engage with questions of equity and social justice, a thread that runs through subsequent sections as well. What is it about IRE that justifies faith among practitioners and scholars that it is an instrument of social justice? There is certainly more to be said and explored than declaring allegiance to a moral predisposition, no matter how compelling the underlying values
might be. This chapter asks if and how IRE as a family of approaches to inquiry compels us to lean into improvement that explicitly orients to equity and social justice. Given the variety of approaches to and perspectives on improvement research, in what ways does a commitment to social justice and equity vary, and what shapes that variation? Here we offer a framework for exploring and understanding what, conceptually, resides at the intersection of IRE as a discrete set of inquiry approaches and productive attention to pervasive inequity in education. We build this framework on the historical foundations of IRE that bend it as an approach to inquiry toward matters of equity.

[Quoted from p. 89]

Author/creator

Eddy-Spicer, David H.

Gomez, Louis M.

Date

2022

In publication

The Foundational Handbook on Improvement Research in Education

Editor

Peurach, Donald J.

Russell, Jennifer Lin

Cohen-Vogel, Lora

Penuel, William R.

Pages

89-110

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Resource type

en Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

en Published Text

Scholarship genre

en Synthesis/Overview

en Theoretical

IRE Approach/Concept

Equity

Justice

Social Design Experiment/Social Design-Based Experiment (SDBE)

Networked Improvement Community (NIC)

Improvement Science

Axiological Innovation

Featured case/project

Carnegie Math Pathways (CMP)

Migrant Student Leadership Institute (MSLI)

Language

en-us

Open access/full-text available

en No

ISBN

978-1-5381-5234-8

URL

Publication Webpage

Other related resources/entities

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Citation

Eddy-Spicer, D. H., & Gomez, L. M. (2022). Accomplishing Meaningful Equity. In D. J. Peurach, J. L. Russell, L. Cohen-Vogel, & W. R. Penuel (Eds.), The Foundational Handbook on Improvement Research in Education. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538152348/The-Foundational-Handbook-on-Improvement-Research-in-Education

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