DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION AT THE UNIVERSITY

The path of institutionalization

In the international context, the discourse on diversity and inclusion in the university has been used for decades to endorse social justice policies in this institution. Although in Spain it is a novel issue, it emerges firmly in the face of elitist discourses that defend that only those who deserve it can be in the university, without taking into account the social responsibility of the institutions.

Given its innovative nature and the need for a rigorous analysis, this book presents the results of an investigation carried out over four years by a team made up of researchers from eight public universities. It diagnoses university policies and practices in terms of diversity in Spain and proposes the path of institutionalization as a global, cultural and change-oriented systematic process in the university.

Reading this book is useful for the different groups of the university community involved in the organization to initiate, motivate, direct or sustain processes of change in favor of equity. The people who assume the task of governing each university are also questioned, as well as the governors and those responsible for the agencies and administrative structures that evaluate, control and supervise the quality of the university processes.

José Luis Álvarez Castillo is University Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Córdoba (Spain), and coordinator of the “Education, Diversity and Society” research group of the Andalusian Research Plan. His main line of work has been devoted to prejudice in education and strategies for its reduction in multicultural contexts.

María García-Cano Torrico is a permanent teacher in the Department of Education at the University of Córdoba (Spain). Since the 1990s, her lines of research have focused on intercultural education, gender, migration and diversity. She has been director of the Inclusive Education Unit at the University of Córdoba, where she took part in shaping political action and university practices for inclusion.

1. Diverse Societies: Inclusive Universities

2. Institutionalization of inclusion policies in Spanish public universities

3. Institutional practice: Analysis of the Memories at [UAD??], at the National University of Distance Education and at the Complutense University of Madrid 

4. Inclusive education in university contexts: Discourses of institutional leaders

5. Inclusive voice of administration and services staff and university teaching staff

6. Inclusive attention to diversity from the students’ statements 

7. Inclusion and diversity: Romani students at university

8. Role that social agents play in the construction of inclusive universities

9. Teaching innovation and attention to diversity: opportunities for its institutionalization

10. Inclusive competences for training in global citizenship

11. The in the university curriculum: diversity in a pandemic context

12. Universal Learning Design at the University of Valencia: a training action for teachers

13. Student leadership and attention to diversity at the university

14. Concept and phases of an institutionalization process in the University for an inclusive higher education

15. Systematic guidelines for the institutionalization of attention to diversity in the University