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The chapter offers a road map that charts the key issues raised in this edited collection that contributes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) series. Throughout the book, questions are raised, tensions observed, and practices highlighted, often through passionate discussion, regarding the ways in which considerations of equity, inclusion, and social justice are configured, challenged, observed, or ignored in a range of educational settings. All chapters address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education which advocates for the provision of inclusive and equitable education and the promotion of lifelong learning for all. This chapter extends the focus of diversity, inclusion, and social justice to examine the inclusive approaches embedded in the production of the book. Rejecting potentially exclusionary publication processes, the editors mobilized inclusive approaches to selecting, reviewing, and editing chapters and the development of edited scholarship. Focusing on connections and capacity building, a diverse range of authors, reviewers, and editors worked together in a supportive, inclusive, and encouraging framework to produce an interwoven contemporary narrative about the state of diversity and inclusion in mainstream education settings.
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Goriss-Hunter, A., Burke, J., Weuffen, S., Plunkett, M., Emmett, S. (2023). Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice in Education in the Twenty-First Century. In: Weuffen, S., Burke, J., Plunkett, M., Goriss-Hunter, A., Emmett, S. (eds) Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice in Education. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5008-7_1
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