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Race, affect, and marginalized communities: navigating racialized emotions in community-engaged pedagogy Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Jialei Jiang, Jason Tham
Extending earlier scholarly discussions surrounding whiteness as a social construct in community-engaged higher education, this paper argues that affect theory provides a promising lens for studyin...
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Towards unsettling the racial nation-state: affective interventions in an Australian literature classroom Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Mary Purcell
As the adoption of the Immigration Restriction Act 1901 (otherwise known as the White Australia policy) reveals, whiteness has always been fundamental to the Australian nation-state. White sovereig...
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The theory of practice architectures and its discontents: disturbing received wisdom to make it dangerous again Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2024-03-31 George Variyan, Christine Edwards-Groves
This paper critically examines the theory of practice architectures in response to a call for its reinvigoration towards more politically charged scholarship. While such goals seem acceptable, nece...
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What’s (in) a game? An empirical reflection on the relationship of higher education students to their disciplines Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Tim Winzler
This paper contributes to attaining a clearer view and understanding of the processes of socially induced changes of students in the ‘game’ of higher education (HE). First, it engages in a critique...
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Disrupting binary thinking about sanctuary initiatives in the UK and Australia: insights from a Derridean analysis of hostipitality Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Rebecca Murray, Sally Baker
Despite their geographical distance, the UK and Australia share proximity with their hostile immigration policies and managed migration practices, characterised by inhumanity under the guise of det...
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Challenging the gold standard consensus: Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and their pitfalls in evidence-based education Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Juan David Parra, D. Brent Edwards Jr
This paper seeks to raise awareness among educational researchers and practitioners of some significant weaknesses and internal contradictions of randomised control trials (RCTs). Although critique...
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What is missing in policy discourses about school exclusions? Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Barry Down, Anna Sullivan, Neil Tippett, Bruce Johnson, Jamie Manolev, Janean Robinson
This article reports on a critical policy analysis of discourses related to school exclusions. The management of problematic student behaviour is one of the intractable problems facing education sy...
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The timeless beauty of data: inventing educational pasts, presents and futures through data visualisation Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Tatiana Mikhaylova, Daniel Pettersson
This article explores the complex interplay between the visual, numerical and verbal elements of data visualisation and their role in shaping policy concerns. Focusing on the aesthetic and temporal...
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Aboriginal dance as pedagogy: privileging voices of Bundjalung elders Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Kylie Day, Stuart Barlo, Lynne McPherson, Kelly Menzel
Indigenous dance is a methodology used to convey stories of survival and reform within each Aboriginal language group in Australia. The Bundjalung Nation is the cultural group where we are situated...
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Democracy and planetary politics: Achille Mbembe and futures of digital citizenship education for life Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Carrie Karsgaard
Building on critical, performative, and emancipatory visions for digital citizenship education, this paper analyzes social media within systems of global capitalism in a time of climate crisis, whi...
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Reclaiming the right to look: making the case for critical visual literacy and data science education Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Peter J. Woods, Camillia Matuk, Kayla DesPortes, Ralph Vacca, Marian Tes, Veena Vasudevan, Anna Amato
As visual cultures scholars have argued, visual expression and aesthetic artifacts largely comprise the modern world. This includes the production of the school as an institution. A critical approa...
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Non-Indigenous Initial Teacher Education students navigating the cultural interface Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Carly Steele, Graeme Gower, Sophie Benson
Despite strong policy impetus to embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content across all levels of education in Australia, it is frequently reported that these aims are not being met. Settle...
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Supplementary schools as sites of access to community cultural wealth and funds of knowledge in Flanders, Belgium Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Julia Steenwegen, Noel Clycq
This paper investigates the role of supplementary schools as grassroots educational initiatives whose reach extend beyond individual educational trajectories for minoritized youth. We examine how t...
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Bridging theory and practice through Work-Integrated Learning (WIL): critical perspectives on the conceptualisations of WIL at a university in Sweden Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Ludvig Sunnemark, Fredrik Sunnemark, Karl Dahlquist, Emil Gahnström, Per Assmo, Laurence Piper
In this article we interrogate how University of Sweden (UoS), the leading Work-integrated learning (WIL) university in Sweden, represents WIL publicly, discussing this in relation to higher educat...
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The need for speed: identification of ‘the deviant’ as the ultimate goal for high returns in early childhood education and care Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Linda Palla
This study aims to develop knowledge about how ‘the Deviant’ is produced through identificatory mapping materials that operate in Swedish preschools. This is achieved by identifying and critically ...
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Heterotopia and the ‘image of Africa’: school tours and philanthropy in a Zimbabwean school Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Kathleen Smithers
Schools in southern Africa use tourism partnerships as a source for establishing philanthropic funding and philanthropic networks. In these partnerships, there is often an exchange of funds for use...
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Counter-Critical Pedagogy: A Manifesto Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Kevin Skelton
This article investigates how critical pedagogy might broaden its purview and cultivate a more symbiotic relationship between formal education and life-long learning through a ‘counter-critical ped...
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“Education is a white woman’s world”: theorizing race, gender, and geography in a liberatory Black pedagogical space Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Esther O. Ohito
In this Black feminist critical inquiry, I theorize the politics of race, gender, and geography in the context of a liberatory Black pedagogical space located in the United States. Using curated in...
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Acknowledgment to reviewers Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-11-12
Published in Critical Studies in Education (Vol. 64, No. 5, 2023)
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Pathways to progress? – collective conscientisation and progressive school reform in Aboriginal education Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Rose Amazan, Julian Wood, Kevin Lowe, Greg Vass
Setting in train various forms of curriculum and pedagogic change in schools whilst seeking to improve both teaching strategies and Aboriginal educational outcomes in Australia is a complex busines...
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Subscribing school: digital platforms, affective attachments, and cruel optimism in a Danish public primary school Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Lucas Cone
This article explores the affective and situated aspects of enacting public schooling within a burgeoning economy of digital platforms. Drawing on a series of conversations with two teachers and tw...
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Politics of rhythm and crisis in the slow death of higher education: implications for academic work and student support Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Robert Shaw, Matej Blazek
This paper explores the role that conflicting rhythms of academic life and crisis have on the ability of academics to meet their commitments, such as providing support to students. Drawing from our...
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Kîyokêwin (Visiting), leadership, and consenting to learn in public: indigenizing social sciences and humanities at the Royal Military College of Canada Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Danielle Lussier, James Denford
Espousing Indigenous Research Methods including Kîyokêwin/Visiting, beadwork as an embodied pedagogical and research practice, and storytelling, this article explores the authors’ experiences worki...
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Land, labour, and sovereignty in school: the Strelley mob and zones of contest in Indigenous education Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Archie Thomas
Schooling has been a site of harm for Indigenous people in settler colonial contexts, as a tool of dispossession, assimilation and separation from country and kin. However, schools have simultaneou...
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Reproducing hierarchisation and depoliticisation: exploring discursive micro processes in global education Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Mária Hodorovská, Kristína Rankovová
This article contributes to the growing debates about the criticality of global education (GE). Our study responds to the critical post/decolonial debates that point out that GE remains complicit i...
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Empathy as a virtue: a Confucian interpretation and a tool to address anti-Asian hate crime Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-08-20 Charlene Tan, Priya Goel La Londe
This paper extends the dominant understandings of empathy – as a trait, state, communication or relationship – by conceptualising it as a virtue and as a tool to address anti-Asian hate crime. Draw...
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Academic language and learning in higher education: a call to Derridean hospitality Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Dana Chahal
Academic Language and Learning (ALL) is a relatively recent practice field in Australian Higher Education (HE). Throughout its history, the institutional positioning of ALL has varied significantly...
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Critical perspectives on internationalization in higher education: commercialization, global citizenship, or postcolonial imperialism? Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Annette Bamberger, Paul Morris
We explore the literature on internationalization in higher education and distinguish between the mainstream and radical approaches to critical scholarship. We argue that the mainstream approach co...
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Toward disability-centered, culturally sustaining pedagogies in teacher education Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Saili S. Kulkarni, Amanda L. Miller, Emily A. Nusbaum, Holly Pearson, Lydia XZ Brown
Teacher education in the United States operates within the same politically polarized and tense contexts as schools. Research predominantly relies on the voices and experiences of scholars and prof...
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Measuring and misrepresenting the missing millions: the OECD’s assessment of out-of-school youth in PISA for Development Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-07-02 Xiaomin Li, Paul Morris
PISA for Development (PISA-D) was a pioneering pilot project designed to make PISA, which compares the performance of 15-year-olds in school, more suitable for low- and middle-income countries. Thi...
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From Global Citizenship to Anthropocene Denizenship: The Challenge to Education for Sustainable Development Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Ignasi Ribó
This article connects instrumental, emancipatory, and critical approaches to Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) with the different cultural responses or grand narratives of the Anthropocen...
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Getting good at bad emotion: teachers resist and reproduce hegemonic positivity in a discourse community Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Emma McMain
Social and emotional learning (SEL) is a growing phenomenon in countries around the globe. With this increase in formalized ways to recognize, define, and nurture social and emotional personhood co...
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Independent learner as the ideal – normative representations of higher education students in film and television drama across Europe Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Anu Lainio
This article explores the normative representations of higher education students in seven films and television series from four European countries. Drawing on the concept of the ‘independent learne...
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Challenging university complicity and majoritarian narratives: counter-storytelling from black working-class students Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Mukovhe Masutha, Rajani Naidoo, Jürgen Enders
Low completion rates amongst students from Black working-class backgrounds remain a persistent challenge to post-apartheid university transformation in South Africa. Notions of universities as colo...
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The teaching apparatus: A material-discursive entanglement of tasks and friendship in the upper-secondary classroom Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Fride Haram Klykken
This paper investigates the material complexity and relational emergence of ‘teaching’. Reporting on a video-based ethnographic study of an upper secondary classroom in Norway, the paper centres on...
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Restoring trust? Public communication from Swedish Universities about the post-truth crisis Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Eric Carlsson, Maria Carbin, Bo Nilsson
In this paper, we engage with five Swedish universities’ discursive articulation of, and responses to, an alleged post-truth crisis in communication, aimed at the public. Taking discourse theory as...
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Bullying affects: the affective violence and moral orders of school bullying Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Ben Lohmeyer, Steven Threadgold
Second paradigm school bullying scholars are challenging the reliance on psychological and behavioural paradigms both in Australia and globally. Approaching bullying as ‘social violence’ has enable...
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Running the canteen for profit: funding, parents and philanthropy in Queensland state schools Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Anna Hogan, Greg Thompson
In a globally austere policy context, state financing of public services has been positioned as perennially ‘in crisis’ with private intervention a positive solution. There is a general assumption ...
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Problematising students’ agency in the internationalisation of higher education Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Dylan G Williams
From a critical ecological linguistic perspective, this paper argues that South Korean English-language-policies are constraining students’ agency. Since the millennium, as a legacy of neoliberalis...
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‘Success is different in our eyes’: reconciling definitions of educational success among Indigenous families and education systems in Alberta, Canada Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Emily Milne, Terry Wotherspoon
Notions of ‘student success’ feature prominently in emerging educational discourses and policy orientations. Current policy frameworks focusing on equity, performance, and reconciliation claim to o...
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The resilience of racism and affective numbness: cultivating an aesthetics of attention in education Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Michalinos Zembylas
This paper suggests that cultivating an aesthetics of attention in education can be a valuable affective tool for combatting the kind of numbness often associated with the resilience of racism. The...
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Carceral logics and education Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-01-22 Sophie Rudolph
ABSTRACT In this article, I propose a new conceptual lens for understanding issues of racialised discipline and school exclusion that takes into consideration the foundational carceral logics of the settler colonial state. By bringing together carceral state, settler colonial and critical Indigenous studies literatures I demonstrate how the settler colonial carceral state is driven by racial capitalism
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Educators as decolonial intellectuals: revolutionary thought from Gramsci to Fanon Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2023-01-08 Michael V. Singh, Zeus Leonardo
ABSTRACT For several decades, the Gramscian notion of the intellectual has been a popular framework to view the potentiality of educators as counter-hegemonic cultural workers. While this was an invaluable contribution to the field of critical education, notions of the intellectual have largely focused on class conflict. For a deeper theorization of the intellectual and race, we turn to the work of
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Hidden in plain view: Indigenous early career researchers' experiences and perceptions of racism in Australian universities Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Rhonda Povey, Michelle Trudgett, Susan Page, Michelle Lea Locke
ABSTRACT Despite extensive impact studies over the past two decades documenting the insipid and debilitating health, social, and emotional impacts of racism on Indigenous peoples in Australia, racism remains a key factor impacting negatively on the lives of Indigenous Australians at all levels of education. Racism experienced by Indigenous early career researchers is much-neglected area of research
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The moral positioning of education policy publics: how social media is used to wedge an issue Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Naomi Barnes, Steven Watson, Sheena MacRae
ABSTRACT Social media has become a core feature in policy development and enactment. This article extends current features of digital policy sociology to include the entanglement of education policy development processes with new media, paying particular attention to how two conservative think tanks in Australia have strategically used social media in their lobbying practices. By concentrating on policy
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Acknowledgment to reviewers Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2022-11-16
Published in Critical Studies in Education (Vol. 63, No. 5, 2022)
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Respect@Uni: A feminist insider perspective on respect-based culture change in higher education Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2022-11-06 Robyn Barnacle, Denise Cuthbert, Ali Hall, Leul Tadesse Sidelil
ABSTRACT This article provides feminist insider perspectives on the development and delivery of an innovative respect-based sexual assault and sexual harassment (SASH) prevention initiative in higher education. The initiative is designed specifically to address risk factors in graduate research. It is one of the first of its kind world-wide. Respect and cognate, moderate feminist, concepts are increasingly
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Academic citizenship, collegiality and good university governance: a dedication to Associate Professor Julie Rowlands (1964–2021) Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Jill Blackmore, Rebecca Lund
Published in Critical Studies in Education (Vol. 63, No. 5, 2022)
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Epistemic governance of diverse research practices and knowledge production: an introduction Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Rebecca Lund, Jill Blackmore, Julie Rowlands
Published in Critical Studies in Education (Vol. 63, No. 5, 2022)
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Good teachers and counter conduct Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Pat Norman
ABSTRACT Research on policy enactment has explored tensions created by accountability approaches associated with new forms of management under neoliberalism. These approaches generate particular discursive constructs of the ‘good teacher’ – constructs that often negate the rich, unmeasurable, and ethical practices associated with teacher professionalism. This paper draws on data generated as part of
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Becoming neoliberal policy subjects: Staff members’ discursive practices about school climate in Chile Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Andrew Webb, Sandra Becerra, Macarena Sepulveda
ABSTRACT Reforms to school climate policies in Chile have led to a marked shift away from punitive approaches for dealing with bullying behaviours, toward more educationally formative processes. Schools in this national context have also been given greater responsibilities for designing anti-bullying practices relevant to their own educational communities. Based on qualitative interviews with staff
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Reclaiming relationality in education policy: towards a more authentic relational pedagogy Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Stewart Riddle, Andrew Hickey
ABSTRACT This paper critically examines articulations of relationality present in education policy texts that shape particular discursive representations of relationality between students, teachers and curriculum. The policy texts of Australian state and territory education departments are considered as a set of discursive statements to illustrate how concepts such as relationality are deployed in
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Negotiating Indigenous higher education policy analysis at the cultural interface in the Northern Territory, Australia Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2022-06-05 C. Street, K. Robertson, J. Smith, J. Guenther, S. Larkin, S. Motlap, W. Ludwig, T. Woodroffe, K. Gillan, R. Ober, V. Shannon, E. Maypilama
ABSTRACT Policy analysis can be useful for learning about ‘what works’ in policy. Contemporary policy studies literature highlight that such learning is influenced by power relations in government that shape our ways of knowing the world. This paper offers a critically reflexive narrative account of power relations present during Indigenous higher education policy analysis research conducted in the
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Investing in imagined digital futures: the techno-financial ‘futuring’ of edtech investors in higher education Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Ben Williamson, Janja Komljenovic
ABSTRACT Educational technology is the focus of increasing financial investment. In this article, we examine how edtech investors imagine and invest in the future of higher education through an empirical case study of a UK investing company. Utilising concepts and methods from economic sociology, we analyse how investment companies engage in techno-financial ‘futuring’ practices. We identify two kinds
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Critical theory in prestigious academic environments: a first-generation student’s chronicle Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Merav Nakar Sadi, Oren Ergas
ABSTRACT The past 50 years have witnessed a growing presence of critical theory within different social science academic departments across the western world. The joint existence of a theory committed to exposing and criticizing various inequalities of the social order within academic institutions based on traditional hierarchies and prestigious arrangements is the starting point of this paper. It
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Theorizing and implementing meaningful Indigenization: Wikipedia as an opportunity for course-based digital advocacy Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2022-05-15 Nicole VT Lugosi, Nicole Patrie, Kris Cromwell
ABSTRACT This article is inspired by long-standing calls to address issues of anti-Indigenous racism and colonialism within higher education. There is a growing trend among universities around the globe to commit to principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), including discussions about how to Indigenize the academy. While EDI and Indigenization goals are laudable, they are often critiqued
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Privileged careerists, working-class idealists: complicating the relationship of class, college values, and curricular choices Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Mary L. Scherer
ABSTRACT Research suggests that class-privileged students value learning for its own sake and study the liberal arts, while working-class students believe college is a means to an end. However, recent studies indicate that these associations are weakening. This paper investigates the link between class background, college values, and curricular choices, specifically course selection. In interviews
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Affecting advantage: class relations in contemporary higher education Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Dianne Mulcahy, Maree Martinussen
ABSTRACT This article explores the role of affect in addressing the advantage conventionally accorded to high socio-economic status (SES) in higher education (HE) and how this advantage plays out for students from low SES backgrounds. Positioned as the ‘other’ to an assumed norm, the capacities of these students can be considered the ‘wrong’ capacities, such that privilege prevails. Drawing on interview
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The implicit epistemology of metric governance. New conceptions of motivational tensions in the corporate university Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Helene Aarseth
ABSTRACT This article aims to develop enhanced conceptions of the motivational drives that may be imperilled by their encounter with new forms of governance in higher education. Of particular concern are the motivational drives behind creative scientific pursuits associated with the humanities, and their vulnerability in the face of metrics governance and audit culture. I argue that the notion of the
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On the possibility of a public regime in higher education: rethinking normative principles and policy frameworks Crit. Stud. Educ. (IF 3.626) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Francisco Durán Del Fierro
ABSTRACT The process of reversing a neoliberal regime in highly marketised higher education systems entails the discussion of such a regime’s normative principles and policy frameworks. Little has been said about what decommodification would involve or the implications of such a project for the constitution of a public regime in higher education. Two principles are discussed in this paper to delve