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Epistemic Justice and Capabilities Expansion Through UDL and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy: Learning Analytics for Inclusive School Ecologies

Epistemic Justice and Capabilities Expansion Through UDL and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy: Learning Analytics for Inclusive School Ecologies
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Author(s): Ashraf Alam (Department of Education, National Institute of Technology Calicut, India)
Copyright: 2027
Pages: 40
Source title: Addressing Systemic Inequalities for Equitable and Inclusive Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Michael Mbongiseni Buthelezi (University of Limpopo, South Africa)and Marubini Christinah Sadiki (University of South Africa, South Africa)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3373-7842-8.ch005

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Abstract

This chapter develops a transdisciplinary architecture for inclusive school ecologies, anchored in epistemic justice and the capabilities approach. It theorises how Universal Design for Learning, culturally sustaining and multilingual pedagogy, accessible educational technologies, and equity-oriented learning analytics can be braided into curriculum, assessment, and governance regimes that engineer belonging by design. Through conceptual cartographies and decision matrices, the chapter reframes learner variability as the normative design baseline, specifies capability expanding outcomes, and operationalises ethical data infrastructures that support participatory improvement. Intended for academics, policymakers, workforce professionals, and digital learning technologists, it offers actionable heuristics for reconfiguring school systems so that material, symbolic, and algorithmic structures widen learners' freedoms to know, to participate, and to imagine just futures.

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