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Beyond Equity as Inclusion

A Framework of “Rightful Presence” for Guiding Justice-Oriented Studies in Teaching and Learning

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ID9733888
AuthorsAngela Calabrese Barton (0000-0002-9555-5214, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, corresponding author), Edna Tan (0000-0002-4583-4557, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC)
Year2020
Volume49
Issue6
Pages433-440
Publication date2020-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Researcher (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-189X • E-ISSN: 1935-102X
PublisherAmerican Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3102/0013189x20927363
OpenAlexW3028443084
LanguageEN
Citations received121
References cited26

Current discourses of equity in teaching and learning are framed around calls for inclusion, grounded in the extension of a set of static rights for high-quality learning opportunities for all students. This essay presents a rightful presence framework to guide the study of teaching and learning in justice-oriented ways. This framework highlights the limitations of equity as inclusion, which does not adequately address the ways in which systemic injustices manifest in local classroom practice. Rightful presence orients the field towards the importance of political struggles to make present the lives of those made missing by schooling and discipline-specific norms. Three tenets for guiding the use of this framework in teaching and learning are offered. Two contrasting vignettes from STEM classrooms illustrate tenets and emergent tensions

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