Reparations: theorising just futures of education

Arathi Sriprakash

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Abstract

This conceptual paper examines reparations as a vital yet under-researched orientation to justice in education. The idea of reparations requires us to understand the interconnections between past, present and future in both the formation of injustice and its repair. It implies that until injustices are actively addressed they can endure in social institutions – like education – which also shape lives-to-come. The paper explores material, epistemic, and pedagogic approaches to reparations in education. It argues that attention to reparations can upturn conventional scholarly and political approaches which frame education either as a force of social reproduction or as a track to upward social mobility. Instead, models of reparative justice ask: what sorts of futures of education can emerge from taking seriously the righting of past and present educational wrongs? Injustice is not an inevitability in reparative futures of education: these are new, if challenging, horizons of theory and practice for the field.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)782-795
Number of pages14
JournalDiscourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
Volume44
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Nov 2022

Research Groups and Themes

  • ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures
  • Reparative justice
  • structural injustice
  • racism
  • coloniality
  • futures
  • repair

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