Fantastic Educational Gaps and Where to Find Them: A Review of Research in Educational Equity and Equality

Anh-Duc Hoang

doi:10.30564/jiep.v2i4.1309

Fantastic Educational Gaps and Where to Find Them: A Review of Research in Educational Equity and Equality

Anh-Duc Hoang (Phu Xuan University; EdLab Asia)

Article ID: 1309

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30564/jiep.v2i4.1309

Abstract

In today’s world, education is less being considered as an outcome, but more as a journey. As the adventurers, our students are facing more and more complex challenges. Previously, the socio-economic status of a student’s family seemed to be one of the biggest factors among inequality causes. Nowadays, the chaotic situation of today's VUCA world (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) is generating more and more types of inequity and inequality. Thus, the purpose of the study is to develop LERB - a simple model to classify inequity and inequality, as a stepping-stone to build a gap detection framework. Through a structured literature review, the study identified the interconnection between equity and equality, as well as their transition toward students as an individual or as a group(s) and subgroup(s). The study can also be adapted to examine the correlation between different categories of equity, as well as to brainstorm and propose remedies to tackle those gaps.

Keywords

Educational equity, Educational equality, LERB, Remedy, VUCA world, Emerging differences

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