{"product_id":"unsettling-the-gap-9781433159145","title":"Unsettling the Gap","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnsettling the Gap: Race, Politics and Indigenous Education\u003c\/em\u003e examines pressing issues of inequality in education. The notion of gapand the need to close itis used widely in public and policy debates to name the nature and scope of disadvantage. In the competitive world of education, gaps have become associated with students who are seen to be falling behind, failing or dropping out. A global deficit discourse is, therefore, mobilised and normalised. But this discourse has a history and is deeply political. \u003ci\u003eUnsettling the Gap\u003c\/i\u003e examines this history and how it is politically activated through an analysis of the Australian Closing the Gap in Indigenous Disadvantage policy. In this policy discourse the notion of gap serves as a complex and multiple signifier, attached to individuals, communities and to national history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn unravelling these diverse modalities of gap, the text illuminates the types of ruling binaries that tend to direct dynamics of power and knowledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnsettling the Gap: Race, Politics and Indigenous Education\u003c\/i\u003e impressively examines and disrupts the governing colonial and racial logics of white supremacy in education. Empirically insightful and theoretically innovative, it indexes the concept of gap and its effects within a history of the present that analyzes the paradoxical role that education plays in structural inequalities and social justice possibilities. For those interested in challenging settler colonial dynamics in Australia and beyond, this is a must-read book.\" —\u003ci\u003eRoland Sintos Coloma, Professor and Assistant Dean, Wayne State University; President, American Educational Studies Association\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnsettling the Gap: Race, Politics and Indigenous Education\u003c\/i\u003e invites readers into a difficult conversation about how educational policies can enact both material and epistemic dispossession. Sophie Rudolph makes an extremely important contribution to educational studies by offering a highly sophisticated analysis of knowledge production in the context of settler colonial relations. The book is a persuasive and carefully argued account of how investments in settler authority are mobilized to reproduce colonial injustices in Indigenous education.\"\t —\u003ci\u003eVanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change, The University of British Columbia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this book, Sophie Rudolph intelligently, and in an ethically aware way, historicizes ‘gap talk’ in contemporary Australian Indigenous education policy. As well as a thoroughly researched ‘history of the present,’ her analyses and pedagogical use of Indigenous artists’ images provoke and decolonize how we might think otherwise about Indigenous education. \u003ci\u003eUnsettling the Gap: Race, Politics and Indigenous Education\u003c\/i\u003e is a profound book and a must-read for all concerned with Indigenous schooling.\"\t —\u003ci\u003eBob Lingard, Emeritus Professor, School of Education, The University of Queensland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Images – Abbreviations and Terminology – Acknowledgements – A Future with No More Gaps? – Racing the Gap: Concepts of Race in the (Settler) Colonial World – Questions of Time – Standing on the Bridge: Critical Encounters with Ethics and Power – Tracing the Gap: Constructions of Deficiency and Potential – Gauging the Gap: Converging Discourses of Measurement and Rank – The Right Side of the Gap: School, Nation, Inclusion, History – Beyond Closing the Gap: Provocations for Thinking Otherwise – Author Biography – Artist Biographies – Index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039639929175,"sku":"9781433159145","price":32.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433159145.jpg?v=1750944346","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unsettling-the-gap-9781433159145","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}