Abstract Within the social sciences, term equity has a helpful and precise meaning – referring to differentiated response an individual’s distinct needs or circumstances. However, since 2000s ‘equity’ been recontextualised within national international education policymaking as generic term. This recontextualisation led being used uncritically refer range of related, sometimes contradictory, co...

Background This article explores the methodological foundations for a utopian methodology as form of Design-Based Intervention Research (DBR) that can guide process envisioning, implementing, sustaining, and critically evaluating more radical forms educational activity systems prefigure goal an equitable humane education system.Methods We examine, guided by lens, examples from three national tr...

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We take an experience of educational failure in school mathematics to illustrate the liberal capitalist ideology at work in educational institutions. This will be done by means of confronting the official discourse, which posits inclusion and equity as fundamental goals of mathematics education, with its actualization within a secondary school, whose student-intake can be labeled as marginalise...