Kathleen Lynch

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Equality and power in schools:redistribution recognition and representation

Equality of conditions

• Equal access to resources and opportunities gender race class

• The state has responsibility to ensure everyone has access to basic necessities

Government and state

• Lynch Believes that the state can and should Do more to achieve social justice and take widespread inequality

• She refers to Ireland as a careless state one that has not done enough to enforce equality legislation

Human nature

• Dependency, interdependency and vulnerability are inherent to the human condition

• Being loved or cared for is vital throughout human existence

• Effective inequalities are not publicly recognised

• Education is about nurturing and developing peoples capabilities and their schools and colleges can undermined these capabilities by not giving care

• Equal access to love and care in our lives is crucial for development on an individual and this matter is because people are relational beings

Society and nature

• Students need to learn about human rights and social justice

• To understand diversity teachers and student need to experience it and schools need to be fully inclusive

• Throughout her work she identifies’ cultural inequalities’ Which can occur as a result of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, religion, or family status

• Education defines what and who is or is not of cultural value

Political spectrum

Left-wing

No child 2020 program

An article part as the child 2020 program the Irish times found that the children in disadvantaged schools have a lower literacy and numeracy score and a higher drop out rate

UNICEFF

Ranks Ireland second best out of 41 nations in promoting educational quality