This introduction provides an overview of the articles in the special issue. Drawing on Sylvia Wynter’s notion of disenchantment, the articles in this special issue interrogate power and inequity in education. They question the given assumptions of education policy and aim to reorient us toward justice and educational transformation, pushing back against claims of “neutrality” or educational projects that reinscribe harm.
AppleM. W. (2018). Ideology and curriculum (4th ed.). Routledge.
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AuW.FerrareJ. J. (2015). Mapping corporate education reform: Power and policy networks in the neoliberal state. Routledge.
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AyersW.QuinnT. M.StovallD. (2009). Handbook of social justice in education. Routledge.
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BrockenbroughE. (2016). Becoming queerly responsive: Culturally responsive pedagogy for Black and Latino urban queer youth. Urban Education, 51(2), 170–196.
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ConnellR. W. (1996). Teaching the boys: New research on masculinity, and gender strategies for schools. Teachers College Record, 98(2), 206–235.
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DiemS.YoungM. D.WeltonA. D.Cumings MansfieldK.LeeP.-L. (2014). The intellectual landscape of critical policy analysis. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 27(9), 1068–1090.
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DumasM. J. (2014). ‘Losing an arm’: Schooling as a site of Black suffering. Race Ethnicity and Education, 17(1), 1–29.
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HenryK. L.Jr. (2023). Feasting on Blackness: Educational parasitism, necropolicy, and Black thought. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2023.2248089
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Ladson-BillingsG. (2021). I’m here for the hard re-set: Post pandemic pedagogy to preserve our culture. Excellence & Equity in Education, 54(1), 68–78.
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LeonardoZ. (2004). Critical social theory and transformative knowledge: The functions of criticism in quality education. Educational Researcher, 33(6), 11–18.
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Onwuachi-WilligA. (2021). The trauma of awakening to racism: Did the tragic killing of George Floyd result in cultural trauma for whites?Houston Law Review, 58(4), 817–846.
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PattersonS. (2022). We know this place: Poems. University of New Orleans Press.
