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The federal government's pledge for increased access to computers for students has been held up as "groundbreaking reform" as "digital schools" become a reality for more students. However, access to technology remains uneven across schools, student compe

Feminist understandings of epistemophilia (the drive for knowledge) have typically focused on epistemophilia's destructive aspects with little consideration for the multitude of possible creative and productive expressions of the drive (see Grosz 1990; Ru

How should children be educated for democratic politics in ways that do not undermine their diverse needs, ideas, and interests? The dual challenges for a democratic theory of education are, first, to protect the pluralism of the young from standardizatio

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

Communication-across-the-curriculum (CXC) programs provide assistance to other disciplines on the teaching and learning of communication-meeting an increasingly important need for students not only to be content specialists, but also coherent communicator

In 1997 the government of Hong Kong reformed its policy on the language medium for teaching at the secondary-school level and removed schools' right to choose their own medium. Among the 404 public and "aided" secondary schools in Hong Kong, the governmen

This paper examines this language controversy against the wider context of English hegemony and the rise of academic capitalism, two forces which are inextricably linked for the non-Western societies in a post-colonial era. I will try to show that the con

The author, a specialist in philosophy for children who is recognized worldwide, presents the conceptual and philosophical framework within which the idea of early education in philosophical discussion is situated. A theory of education and its place in s

Despite the benefits of international scholarship to higher education institutions, faculty engagement in internationalization remains a major challenge for many universities. This study sheds light on this problem by investigating the strategies used by

When used with caution and humility, the cipher, a metaphor central to hip-hop worlds, captures the power of human relationality and the arts in collaborative qualitative research about and for social justice at the beginning of the 21st century. In this

In this issue of Equity & Excellent in Education we make a case that while such a difference in framing the goals of social justice in science education provides a useful heuristic for understanding the goals of equity-driven teaching, to separate them li

This essay situates Fredric Jameson's theory of pedagogy within his larger project of the aesthetics of cognitive mapping in order to demonstrate the importance of teaching and learning for defining Marxist theory and practice. The article excavates James

Kuhn, T.S. (1970) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press . Markus, H. and Katayama, S. (1991) 'Culture and the Self: Implications for Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation' , Psychological Review 98: 224-252 .[CrossRef

This article documents a scholarship of teaching and learning project designed to help literature students cultivate the core disciplinary skill of reading for complexity. We offer a close reading of student responses from a collaboratively designed lesso

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,

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

New Labour came to power with a stated commitment to 'education, education, education' and confirmed quickly that this commitment included a greater role for business in the modernization of state schools. One important, yet under-researched, element of d

Media literacy, critical thinking, and media production are powerful tools for youth to combat racism. Whether we have the chance to address it in the classroom, after school program or community, we have a responsibility as educators and citizens to work

Over the past three decades the ethnographic-based human sciences (anthropology, social linguistics, ethnomusicology, sociology, etc.) have come under heavy scrutiny for the perpetuation of injustice and inequality, and a lack of sensitivity to indigenous

This article contains our reflections on the experience of using a triple capacity building (TCB) model to train students in community development work in rural China. The TCB approach subscribes to critical pedagogy, which calls for a reinvention of the