The Relationality of Race in Education Research (ePub)

Greg Vass is a Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His work in the Sociology of Education is concerned with social and Indigenous perspectives in education. His research interests are focused on investigating relationships between policy enactment, and pedagogic/curricula performative race-making practices and inequalities. This work explores how discrimination and privilege are connected to subjectivities that continue to rely on racialised social scripts and everyday practices. Building on his experiences as a high school teacher, central to his work are concerns with how educators can work towards disrupting the reproduction of raced hierarchies and inequalities within educational settings.

Jacinta Maxwell is a Pakeha New Zealander and a non-Indigenous Australian, who is currently a Lecturer at the School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Her doctoral research examined stated and implicit intentions underpinning the inclusion of the 'Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures' cross-curriculum priority within the Australian Curriculum. Jacinta's research engages with critical race theories of education, policy and curriculum, and notions of national culture in international and offshore schools.