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Bill Brydon

EDUCATION-US: Social Justice Schools Shape New Wave of Activists - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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    While most U.S. public schools are responding to new high-stakes testing requirements by teaching more math and English to the neglect of social studies and civics, a very small minority of schools are pushing forward a different agenda.
Bill Brydon

Engaging Chinese ideas through Australian education research: using chengyu to connect ... - 0 views

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    The increasing number of higher degree research students from China in the universities of multicultural Australia as elsewhere has added to the mounting interest in pedagogies of postgraduate supervision. This paper explores the proposition that efforts
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The problem with autonomy: an ethnographic study of neoliberalism in practice at an Aus... - 0 views

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    The research reported here demonstrates the need for greater subtlety in the practice of policy than appears to be evident in many parts of the globe. Based upon an ethnographic study of school reform, this paper heeds Appadurai's call for those researchi
Bill Brydon

The scrumpled geography of literacies for learning - Discourse: Studies in the Cultural... - 0 views

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    This paper draws upon the experience of the Literacies for Learning in Further Education research project in the UK. The project explored the literacy demands of a number of curriculum areas and the literacy practices of students in their everyday lives,
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Language ideology and identity in transnational space: globalization, migration, and bi... - 0 views

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    A growing transnational migration trend among (South) Korean families brings heterogeneity to the Korean-American communities in the US in terms of educational practices and identity. Based on interviews with Korean mothers, this study discusses how two g
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The Canadian Modern Language Review / La revue canadienne des langues vivantes - Non-na... - 0 views

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    The professional identity of language teachers has gained prominence in research on language instruction in the last decade. This article adds to work by critically exploring how teacher education programs allow non-native English-speaking teachers (NNEST
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Centers and Peripheries: Guest Editor's Introduction -- Long 10 (2): 271 -- Pedagogy: C... - 0 views

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    "Centers and Peripheries" introduces the two goals of Pedagogy's special issue: to investigate what might be possible in the small college department as well as to suggest how these possibilities might inspire comparable intellectual work in other profess
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Growing social justice educators: a pedagogical framework for Social Justice Education ... - 0 views

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    Premised on the basis that we all need to unlearn our socialisation from within an oppressive society as we develop ourselves as instruments for social justice, this article presents a framing model for facilitating the growth and development of educators
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A reciprocal global education? Working towards a more humanizing pedagogy through criti... - 0 views

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    Dehumanizing tendencies within the present neo-liberal era provide the backdrop against which the authors have developed an 11-year partnership in the Global South. The economic context encourages competition over community and, while portending to bring
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Personalised learning in UK Secondary schools « 21st Century Learning - 0 views

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    Late last year Dr Robyn Gregson, Dr Susanne Gannon and Secondary Head of Program Allan Morton spent time at two extraordinary schools in northern England that are reimagining the future of secondary schooling. Both Cramlington Community High School, in No
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Democracy and Nature: Speaking and Listening. Andrew Dobson. 2010; Political Studies - 0 views

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    This article is about the nature of democracy in environmental politics, with special reference to the issue of representation, and to the issues of speaking and listening. It is argued that politics has always been regarded as concerned with 'speechifyin
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Doing business: knowledges in the internationalised business lecture - Higher Education... - 0 views

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    This paper investigates the oracy (listening/speaking) genres enacted in an undergraduate entry point unit in the internationalised university and the kind of knowledges these genres elicit and perform. Focusing on a series of lectures in a business studi
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Chain of influence from policy to practice in the New Zealand literacy strategy - Resea... - 0 views

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    New Zealand's literacy strategy seeks to translate into reality the broad policy goals of equipping all New Zealanders with the knowledge, skills and values to be successful citizens of the twenty-first century. The central policy concern is reflected in
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Listening to the Community: Guidance From Native Community Members for Emerging Cultura... - 0 views

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    Critical race theory (CRT) emphasizes the importance of listening to the counter-narratives of people from marginalized groups. However, the applicability of CRT in practical settings often remains unclear for educators and scholars. This project offers n
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Project MUSE - Pedagogy - Returning to Community and Praxis: A Circuitous Journey throu... - 0 views

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    Using autobiographical incidents, the author argues that to reform our pedagogy we need to change our professional lives, abandoning our habits of solitary research for more direct and communal action. We must go beyond our disciplinary fields and enlist
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Project MUSE - Pedagogy - Globalism and Multimodality in a Digitized World: Computers a... - 0 views

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    In this article we focus on new methods of multimodal digital research and teaching that allow for the increasingly rich representation of language and literacy practices in digital and nondigital environments. These methodologies-inflected by feminist re
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Project MUSE - Pedagogy - Threat Level - 0 views

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    This article surveys the challenges college teachers in the United States will likely face in the near future and argues that overtly political attacks from the Right may be less important than the erosion of tenure entailed in universities' overuse of ad
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Project MUSE - Pedagogy - The Figure of Writing and the Future of English Studies - 0 views

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    With the long-term decline in the cultural capital of literature and a steep decline in tenure-track hires in literary studies, faculty across English are rethinking their relationship to writing. As interest in digital media grows, together with rising e
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Project MUSE - Pedagogy - Performing Discussion: The Dream of a Common Language in the ... - 0 views

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    This article argues that students still must be encouraged to participate in active, interpretive communities that build viable textual meanings in literature classes (and elsewhere). It questions how instructors in student-centered classrooms negotiate t
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'Of, by, and for are not merely prepositions': teaching and learning Conflict Resolutio... - 0 views

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    Universities that promote a liberal education through creative, cross-cultural curriculum nurture the goals of democracy and assist students in becoming 'citizens of the world.' Democratic education for social justice and global consciousness are necessar
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