Towards Education Justice: Digital Technologies for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "Technology Enhanced Education".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 2 February 2026 | Viewed by 448
Special Issue Editors
Interests: digital literacies; multimodal literacies; language education; teacher education
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The aim of the Special Issue is to invite critical engagement with the affordances, limitations, and sociopolitical implications of digital technologies for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) populations. As digital environments become increasingly central to education, employment, and civic life, the ability to meaningfully participate in digital spaces is now a key determinant of access to opportunity and social inclusion. Despite widespread claims that digital tools enhance inclusion, there remains a critical gap in understanding how these technologies may also reproduce or mask structural inequities, particularly for racialised, migrant, and multilingual communities.
This Special Issue aims to address this gap by foregrounding education justice as a lens to examine how digital technologies intersect with power, identity, and access. It calls for research that challenges technological determinism and reimagines digital participation in ways that are culturally and linguistically sustaining and socially just. Themes for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Sustainability, inclusion, and social justice;
- Decolonising education for digital participation;
- Education justice and digital inclusion;
- Culturally relevant, responsible, and sustaining pedagogy;
- Digital literacies.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 January 2026.
Associate Prof. Dr. Lynde Tan
Prof. Dr. Loshini Naidoo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- education justice
- digital inclusion
- culturally and linguistically sustaining pedagogy
- sustainability
- decolonization
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