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Educational Diversity AlsobyYvetteTaylor WORKING-CLASSLESBIANLIFE:ClassedOutsiders LESBIANANDGAYPARENTING:SecuringSocialandEducationalCapital CLASSEDINTERSECTIONS:Spaces,Selves,Knowledges THEORIZINGINTERSECTIONALITYANDSEXUALITY(co-editedwithS.Hinesand M.Casey) FITTINGINTOPLACE?ClassandGenderGeographiesandTemporalities SEXUALITIES:ReflectionsandFutures(withS.Hines) Educational Diversity The Subject of Difference and Different Subjects Yvette Taylor LondonSouthBankUniversity,London,UK Palgrave macmillan Selectionandeditorialmatter©YvetteTaylor2012 Individualchapters©theirrespectiveauthors2012 Foreword©DianeReay2012 Foreword©JonBinnie2012 Softcoverreprintofthehardcover1stedition2012978-0-230-29342-7 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. 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AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 Contents ListofFigures vii Acknowledgements viii Foreword ix DianeReay Foreword xiii JonBinnie NotesonContributors xix 1 EducationalDiversity:TheSubjectofDifference andDifferentSubjects 1 YvetteTaylor Section 1 CompulsoryEducation,Compelling Diversity 2 ‘Inclusion’ThroughExclusion:ACriticalAccountofNew BehaviourManagementPracticesinSchools 17 ValGillies 3 InvestigatingtheValueofVignettesinResearching DisabledStudents’ViewsofSocialEqualityand InclusioninSchool 36 VanitaSundaramandAlisonWilde 4 MainstreamingandtheSubjectificationofDeaf andHard-of-HearingChildren 57 ElizabethS.Mathews 5 ShapingYoungPeople’sGenderandSexualIdentities: CanTeachingPracticesProduceDiverseSubjects? 75 Yu-ChiehHsieh v vi Contents Section 2 HigherEducation,HigherStandards? 6 Unpickingthat‘SomethingSpecial’:StudentBackground andtheUniversityApplicationProcess 99 SarahEvans 7 Beyond‘Inclusion’:MainstreamingEquality WithintheCurriculum 120 KathBridgerandJennyShaw 8 MappingExclusioninUndergraduatePsychology: TowardsaCommonArchitectureoftheMinority StudentExperience 138 IanHodgesandSanjayJobanputra 9 EmbodyingDiversity:PedagogiesofTransformation 159 KayInckle 10 DoingDiversityandEvadingEquality:TheCaseof StudentWorkPlacementsintheCreativeSector 180 KimberlyAllen,JoceyQuinn,SumiHollingworth andAntheaRose Section 3 BoundaryConditions 11 Diversity:ProblemsandParadoxesforBlackFeminists 203 SaraAhmed 12 TalkingAbout‘DiverseGendersandSexualities’Means TalkingAboutMorethanWhiteMiddle-ClassQueers 219 DamienW.Riggs 13 KnowingYourWayWithinandAcrossClassedSpaces: The(Re)makingand(Un)doingofIdentitiesofValue WithinHigherEducationintheUK 236 MichelleAddison 14 Facts,Fictions,IdentityConstrictions:Sexuality,Gender andClassinHigherEducation 257 YvetteTaylor Index 268 Figures 4.1 Foucauldianprocessesinthecreationofasubject 60 vii Acknowledgements This collection is based on a seminar series initiated by Yvette Taylor while a senior lecturer at Newcastle University, UK: Educational Diver- sity:theSubjectofDifferenceandDifferentSubjects(2010).Thanksare paid for the internal funding received for the series and to all those who participated in it. Chapter 14 was originally published as Taylor, Y. (2009) Facts, fictions, identity constrictions: Sexuality, gender and classinhighereducation,Lesbian&GayPsychologyReview,SpecialIssue 10(1):38–47andthanksarepaidforallowingreproductionhere. viii Foreword Doing Diversity Differently Diane Reay This edited book, which grew out of a seminar series on educational diversity, is itself a diverse collection, spanning all stages of education and every aspect of diversity. Diversity has a problematic genealogy withineducation,andithasbeenusedideologicallybytheRighttoboth countermandandunderminetheequalitiesagenda,andbygovernment andpolicymakerstosanitiseandsweetenunacceptableneoliberalpoli- cies. Diversity, often linked to choice, was frequently the justification used to introduce greater and greater levels of marketisation within education. Within this right-wing rhetoric, what the UK needed was increased levels of diversity in the supply of education in order to respond to the diversity of demand among students and their parents. In this ideological deployment, diversity is not an issue that requires attentioninandofitself;rather,itbecomesameanstosomethingelse, inthiscaseneoliberaleducationalpoliciespromotingfreemarketsand choice in education. Those of us who remember the powerful influ- ence of Chubb and Moe’s (1990) book Politics, Markets and America’s Schools,andthesubsequentUKWhitePaper‘Choiceanddiversity’(DfE, July 1992), which became law in 1993, will recall the law as the first majorattempttoputChubbandMoe’sright-wing,neoliberaldoctrines intooperationinBritain.Sincethen,theconceptofdiversityhasgone throughanumber oftwists andturns,andit hascertainlygoneglobal as a number of the chapters in the book demonstrate. But in its many guises,ithastoorarelybeentwinnedwithequalityratherthanchoice. This book then is a very welcome departure: a real attempt to retrieve diversityasakeyequalitiesissue. Whatmanyofthechaptersdoextremelywellishighlighthowdiver- sity in its mainstream conceptualisation marginalises social class. The conundrum those of us on the Left have to struggle with is that social class is no longer seen as a social justice issue; social class inequalities have become naturalised – they are just how things are. This natu- ralisation of socio-economic inequalities was most clearly evidenced ix
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