Meredith Lordan
- Affiliation: OISE, University of Toronto
Meredith Lordan, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology and
Equity Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University
of Toronto, is an Instructor with the Initial Teacher Education Program at
the University of Toronto. A writer, teacher and community advocate, her
research interests include equitable education, reframing students at risk,
multilateralism and education as a human right.
Books by Meredith Lordan
The Poetics of Anti-Racism
Edited by Nuzhat Amin, George Dei, Meredith Lordan
The sense of white entitlement is seen through discourses of “what about us” when issues of race and equity are raised in the classrooms of the dominant. Even when race issues are grudgingly acknowledged there is the politics of moral distancing apparent in the dominant body “playing the race card” through evocations of “merit,” “excellence” and “meritocracy.” This book deals with linguistic racism and the centrality of language in the… (more information)