Religion and Socio-Cultural Issues

Diverse societies ask a hard question of their schools: can a system built around the majority still serve the children who sit outside it? This chapter looks at three places the answer shows up. Religious minorities and how a mixed-faith school teaches them fairly. Curricula and textbooks, and the bias they carry when only one group writes them. And the wider socio-cultural barriers of wealth, language, and gender that decide who reaches a classroom at all.