CCEJ Director Dr. Özlem Sensoy’s most recent essay has been published in the 2024 fall issue of Daedalus, the official journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (established in the 19th c and is among the oldest learned societies). Her essay titled, “Overcoming historical factors that block the quest for educational equity in Canadian schools” is the sole contribution about Canada for the special international issue called The Global Quest for Educational Equity.

Abstract:

Remedying school inequities in Canada requires actively confronting the challenges connected to Canada’s national identity and history. These challenges uphold historically rooted, ongoing inequities that are tied together by three themes: the legacy of colonialism and the displacement and resource acquisition that provided (and continues to provide) wealth for the ruling elite; enslaved and under/unpaid racialized/ migrant labor that built and continues to uphold the infrastructure of the nation- state; and the discourses of Canadian identity centered on the perceived “nice and polite” Canadian and the peaceful multicultural mosaic of its vast land. Any effort to fully understand and address educational projects for change in Canada must engage with these three themes central to Canada’s identity.