SEXTANT Journal - Call for Contributions - Special Issue -Inclusion in Education: Practices, Politics, and Possibilities
SEXTANT: masculinities, sexualities & decolonialities
ISSN: 2990-8124
DOI: 10.65621/ITRF5506
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This special issue of SEXTANT invites contributions engaging critically with inclusion in education, with a particular focus on higher education, while also welcoming work addressing school education, teacher education, and other educational contexts. The issue is edited in connection with the work of UNITE – University Network for Inclusive and Digital Education, an Erasmus+ Consortium bringing together universities and organisations in Czechia, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain.
We invite contributions that critically examine the approaches, challenges, and opportunities of inclusion in education, as well as concrete teaching practices and pedagogical experiments that engage with questions of power, access, and difference across educational contexts.
Themes:
Contributions may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Inclusion and exclusion in educational institutions and policies
- Gendered, racialised, and ableist power relations in education
- Pedagogical practices addressing gender, race, class, disability, and neurodiversity
- Intersectional, feminist, anti-racist, and decolonial approaches to teaching
- Teaching intersectionality and decoloniality
- Professional identities, roles, and expectations in educational work
- Digital, hybrid, and online pedagogies and their implications for inclusion
- Accessibility, assessment, and evaluation practices
- Institutional constraints, failures, and contradictions of inclusion initiatives
- Educators’ positionalities, labour, and ethical challenges in inclusive teaching
- Student participation, co-creation, and alternative pedagogical models
Formats:
In line with SEXTANT’s commitment to interdisciplinary and experimental scholarship, we welcome a broad range of contributions, including:
- Academic articles and research papers
- Reflective and critical essays
- Teaching experiences and pedagogical case studies
- Lesson plans, teaching tools, and curricular materials
- Audiovisual, creative, or multimodal contributions
- Other experimental or hybrid formats engaging with inclusion in education
Authors are invited to submit their contributions following the SEXTANT submission guidelines: sextantnotes.com/submissions/
Closing Submission date: 15 June 2026
SEXTANT: masculinities, sexualities & decolonialities