SALEACOM · Overcoming Inequalities in Schools and Learning Communities: Innovative Education for a New Century

Overcoming Inequalities in Schools and Learning Communities: Innovative Education for a New Century

The main aim of SALEACOM Project. Overcoming Inequalities in Schools and Learning Communities: Innovative Education for a New Century is to create a wide collaboration between 6 research groups from Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, Hungary, Spain and USA, and 1 non-academic institution from Spain (Drom Kotar Mestipen) with a global scope to address educational and social exclusion in schools and learning communities. SALEACOM seeks to create an International Research Network that has the following aims: (a) to increase worldwide cooperation in the study of successful actions with children and youth systematically underserved; (b) to provide high-quality training programs for teachers and educational researchers aiming at overcoming inequalities; (c) to develop interdisciplinary solutions for and with learners most heavily affected by inequalities, including access and quality of higher education; (d) to design strengths-based methodologies for international comparative research to further the impact of research on the lives of students who have been historically excluded (e) to create a global program of successful educational actions to be implemented across educational systems. Access to quality and successful education for all has been placed at the heart of the inequality issue. Reducing inequalities and social exclusion in Europe is one of the crucial challenges for the future that needs to be addressed globally. SALEACOM is directly connected with the EU2020 targets related with education. The analysis of Schools as Learning Communities and the identification of Successful Actions internationally is addressed to identify which actions are contributing to reduce school-out rates. SALEACOM includes a collaborative working plan (from January 2015 to December 2017) based on the exchange of research staff aiming at identifying and optimizing successful actions in schools and learning communities as well as in higher and teacher education that address social exclusion, discrimination and various forms of inequalities. To promote coherent and effective cooperation among the research team, it accounts for the inclusion of researchers across disciplines, stages in their careers and cultures, committed to conducting strengths-based international research to further impact the lives of students who have been traditionally unsuccessful in educational contexts. To maximize the research outcomes of this proposal, researcher exchanges are based on partners’ complementarities in skills, methodological expertise and knowledge of several excluded populations that face similar challenges globally (i.e. Roma, Indigenous populations, African American, among others).

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