Educational policies and equity: Introduction to the special issue

Abstract

This paper presents the special issue Educational Policies and Equity, which delves into different contexts—political, management, educational and training—to identify, describe and understand policies and practices related to the promotion of equity. We understand equity as the fundamental right to education, combating vulnerability, dependency and domination, and with the reduction of inequality and discrimination. After a brief introduction of the theoretical framework from which this special issue is proposed, the articles that compose it are presented. The issues that will be addressed, from the framework of qualitative research, revolve around: the different levels of the process of formulating educational policies; privatization policies and relations between the public and the private; the digitization processes of schools; the processes of globalization and its consequences for agents and democracy; tracking and diversification policies; teacher training and its impact on equity; as well as educational programs that seek to build practices that are oriented towards inclusion and equity.