Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice in Education

Setting the scene.- Discourses, policy, and epistemic values in diversity and inclusion.- The wicked problem of social equity in higher education: Conflicting discourses and the impact of COVID-19.- A systematic literature review of the discourse surrounding non-traditional students in higher education: Concerns and solutions.- A systematic literature review of the discourse surrounding non-traditional students in higher education: Concerns and solutions.- Illumination of the Education System in India and the Current Impact of COVID-19 on Child Rights.- The fallacy of cultural inclusion in mainstream education discourses.

Dr Sara Weuffen is a teacher-researcher specialist at Federation University, and the University of New South Wales, Australia. She has a Ph.D. in cross/inter-cultural education research between non-Indigenous people, Aboriginal peoples, and Torres Strait Islanders in Australia. She specializes in learning and content design for student-centred education diverse cohorts across a broad range of platforms: online, blended, and face-to-face. As a non-Indigenous woman born on Gundijtmara Country (Warrnambool) and living on Wadawurrung Country (Ballarat), Sara draws upon her formative grey methodological approach, where both Poststructural theory and Indigenous methodologies are bought together, and collaborations with Australia's First Nations Peoples, to critique dominant structures and ideologies, interrogate binary discourses, and push educational boundaries for emancipatory and success-orientated shared-learning outcomes and positive social progress.

Professor Jenene Burke isthe Director of Academic Operations in the Institute of Education, Arts and Community at Federation University Australia. As a teacher educator, Jenene's learning and teaching interests centre on educational responses to student diversity, with respect to inclusive education and disability studies in education. Jenene's expertise as a higher education teacher was recognised with an Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in 2013 in the Australian Awards for University Teaching. Jenene is the President of the World Federation of Associations for Teacher Education (WFATE) and co-chair of the Inclusion, Social Justice in Teacher Education in Global Contexts research focus area for WFATE.


Dr Margaret Plunkett is Adjunct Associate Professor at Federation University, Australia. She has been a teacher educator and researcher for more than three decades, specialising in the fields of rural and regional education,