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Researching for social justice: contextual, conceptual and methodological challenges - ... - 0 views

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    Reforming schooling to enable engagement and success for those typically marginalised and failed by schools is a necessary task for educational researchers and activists concerned with injustice. However, it is a difficult pursuit, with a long history of
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Teachers' work and pedagogy in an era of accountability - Discourse: Studies in the Cul... - 0 views

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    A great deal of educational policy proceeds as though teachers are malleable and ever-responsive to change. Some argue they are positioned as technicians who simply implement policy. However, how teachers go about their work and respond to reform agendas
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Dark funds of knowledge, deep funds of pedagogy: exploring boundaries between lifeworld... - 0 views

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    Among social justice efforts to make curriculum more engaging and achieving for 'less advantaged' learners, the Funds of Knowledge (FoK) approach, as developed by Moll, Gonzalez and associates (Gonzalez, Moll, & Amanti, 2005; Moll, Amanti, Neff, & Gonzale
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The responsible uncertainty of pedagogy - Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics o... - 0 views

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    In our current moment there is a resurgence of interest in pedagogy as an object of research and policy. In this context the Redesigning Pedagogies in the North (RPiN) project sought to improve educational outcomes for students from low-socioeconomic stat
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    Dr. Esther Balboa is an internationally known Quechua intellectual from Bolivia who, along with being a psychologist, activist and former vice minister of education, is an educator and presenter focusing on themes of indigenous culture and contemporary is
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INSCRIBING SUBJECTS TO CITIZENSHIP: Petitions, Literacy Activism, and the Performativit... - 0 views

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    This essay examines how activists in rural southern India have sought to reshape the field of political communication by encouraging lower-caste women to submit written, signed petitions to district-level government offices, and so represent themselves to
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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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Computers, the media and multicultural education: seeking engagement and political lite... - 0 views

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    This paper meshes Carr's research on media literacy with Porfilio's research on computer literacy, with both of these areas being focused on the central notion of social justice within a multicultural society. Both researchers teach pre-service teachers,
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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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Critical reasoning for social justice: moral encounters with the paradoxes of intercult... - 0 views

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    The concepts and goals that are relied on in intercultural development programs have not been clearly situated in the social contexts of education. 'Steps' and 'strategies' are applied with varied interpretations to different subject areas. In preparing i
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Civic responsibility and human rights education: a pan-educational alliance for social ... - 0 views

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    Educating global citizens to have knowledge of world political and economic systems and conditions is imperative as the notion of the 'citizen' is constantly evolving. This type of civic education needs to involve critical thinking skills that are pan-edu
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Multicultural education and social justice actions - Intercultural Education - 0 views

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    Multicultural citizenship education courses worldwide show promise in their ability to influence attitudes and beliefs supportive of social justice. However, many of these courses assume behavior change results from these attitudes changes. Quantitative a
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The role of education in teaching norms and values to adult newcomers: an analysis of i... - 0 views

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    This paper presents research on the current debate in the Netherlands regarding integration and the teaching of 'norms and values' to adult newcomers. Data consisting of national and local (city of Rotterdam) integration policy documents and interviews wi
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    CAIRO - Plans by the Malaysian government to use the local Malay language instead of English in teaching science and math is sparking a hot debate in the southeast Asian Muslim country.
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Distanced suffering: photographed suffering and the construction of white in/vulnerabil... - 0 views

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    There has been much debate about the ethics and effectiveness of the circulation of photographs of suffering. An analysis of commentaries and reviews of such photographs shows that the genre interpellates a particular spectator, for whom the "distance" of
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CUBA: What Schools Can and Cannot Do for Equality - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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    HAVANA, Jul 15 (IPS) - They are sisters, just two years apart, and had the same upbringing and education, but they have completely different aspirations. While Ana, the younger, dreams of going to university and following a professional career, Marlén is
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PERU: Going to School Still a Feat for Rural Girls - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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    WAWAS, Peru, Jul 15 (IPS) - María Belén Sabio, a 30-year-old Awajun woman from Peru's northeastern Amazonia province, was able to complete a teacher training programme despite having five children to raise. "Life here in the countryside is not easy, and I
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EDUCATION: Mother Tongue Absent in Thousands of Classrooms - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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    UNITED NATIONS, Jul 16 (IPS) - Millions of children across the world fail to receive a basic education not only because they are born into poverty, but because local authorities do not allow them to read and write in their native language at school.
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CANADIAN GLOBAL CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION - Power in Partnerships: A Survey of Canadian Ci... - 0 views

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    The Canadian Global Campaign for Education is pleased to announce the release of a new study on the contribution of Canadian Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to the Education for All agenda. The study, Power in Partnerships: A Survey of Canadian Civil S
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Revisiting Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Paulo Freire and Contemporary African Studies - R... - 0 views

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    The purpose of this article is to (re)introduce Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed to the study of contemporary African societies. Widely accepted as foundational work in the field of critical pedagogy, it is argued that Freirean scholarship and ana
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