In conversation with Professor Debbie Epstein
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This conversation with Professor Emerita Debbie Epstein explores her political activism in South Africa and academic works in the United Kingdom (UK). In particular, the interview focuses on her political involvement against the Apartheid system, which caused her to leave the country six months after starting her undergraduate study at the University of the Witwatersrand. Moreover, the interview discusses Epstein’s transition to the UK and her work on gender and education, elite schools, anti-racist education and Southern theories. This interview contributes to understanding factors that affect access and equity in education.
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Epstein, D 1994, Challenging Lesbian and Gay Inequalities in Education, Open University Press Gender and Education Series, Buckingham.
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Kenway, J & Epstein, D 2021, ‘The Covid-19 conjuncture: rearticulating the school/home/work nexus’, International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2021, pp. 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2021.1888145
Epstein, D 1993, Changing Classroom Cultures: Anti-Racism, Politics and Schools, Trentham Books, Stoke-on-Trent.
Epstein, D. & Boden, R 2006, Democratising the research imagination: Globalising knowledge about HIV/AIDS. Globalisation, Societies and Education, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 249–260.