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Teachers creating anti-colonial futures: Exploring curriculum conversations with teachers through autobiographical reflection Power and Education Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Carmel Roofe
Teachers’ understanding of their personal histories is beneficial to their understanding and conceptualisation of their roles as teacher professionals. Insights from such understanding in post-colonial societies help to shape teachers’ consciousness about how they can run their own course (curriculum) to create liberating experiences for themselves and those they teach. This paper draws on the autobiographical
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Navigating shallow waters: Symbolic violence and its implications for education for sustainable development in neoliberal Japan Power and Education Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Michael D Smith, Travis Hunter Past
In the face of ongoing ecological, economic, and social concerns, the UN’s sustainable development framework emerges as a map for securing a brighter tomorrow. Yet, against this backdrop, the neoliberal values of deregulation, open marketisation, and individualisation constrain sustainable development outcomes. Building on previous research conducted in Japan, a nation positioned at the forefront of
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Work-based learning: Expansive learning, désoeuvrement, social justice and VET Power and Education Pub Date : 2024-03-26 James Avis
The paper raises important questions about the relationship between Vocational Education and Training (VET), work-based learning (WBL) and social justice. It adopts an analysis that moves beyond conceptualisations that validate WBL as an acknowledgement of the dignity of labour. It seeks to go beyond analyses that mobilise a conventional understanding of expansive learning. How then can we develop
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Teachers-as-pressed-flowers: Unpacking ‘inert benevolence’ towards pupils who require additional support or advocacy to thrive in schools Power and Education Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Clare Cunningham
The notion of inert benevolence has been written about in the context of primary school teachers working with languages beyond English (Cunningham and Little, 2022). However, the concept has a broader relevance for those working in education and this paper seeks to explore it more fully, through the use of the metaphor of a flower press in order to understand how the power of numerous factors bearing
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‘But we didn’t put it to a vote!’. A case study of direct-democratic decision-making in formal education Power and Education Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Yorgos Retalis
The current study examined the unofficial implementation of direct-democratic decision-making assemblies in three typical public (state) schools of consecutive educational levels (kindergarten, primary and middle school) in a village in Greece. The study drew on Michel Foucault’s analysis of power technologies and power relations in disciplinary dispositives like Education. The main aim of the study
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‘Wellbeing’ and the production of disability in the university: Erasure, effacement and institutional exceptionalism Power and Education Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Vivienne Orchard, Eleanor K Jones
This article uses ‘wellbeing’ as deployed within UK higher education as a starting point for examining the relationship between disability and the university. We explore various strands of scholarship that seek to critique wellbeing, universities, and/or connections between disability and these institutions. Work on ‘wellbeing’ identifies the harmful logics underpinning its political appropriation
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Kazakhstan’s nationalistic globalism: Paradox, language, and higher education Power and Education Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Nazgul Bayetova, Douglas L Robertson
Globalism is a neoliberally influenced focus on world markets and the knowledge economy particularly from the perspective of transnational economic entities. Nationalism concentrates on promoting the country as an entity distinct and special among other countries. When combined, as in Kazakhstan’s case, the two perspectives constitute a paradox. This paper explores Kazakhstan’s paradoxical strategy
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Revisiting an Anti-Machiavellian model for teacher education: A critical perspective Power and Education Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Jaber Kamali
This study examines a borrowed concept from politics, that is, Machiavellian, in second language teacher education (SLTE), develops an anti-model to it, and explores teacher educators’ viewpoints about the developed model with an eye on critical aspects of teacher education, that is, Anti-Machiavellian. To do so, the literature on Machiavellian thoughts was studied thoroughly based on which a model
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Engendering gendered mathematics education in the Philippines: Is equality to access enough? Power and Education Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Von Christopher G Chua
In this metasyntheses paper, I explore gender as a social factor that interacts with both the cognitive and affective domains of education by explaining what it means for mathematics to be gendered...
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A critical analysis of education policy in turbulent times: A comparative study Power and Education Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Khalid Arar, Abdel-Aziz Zohri, Abdel-Aziz Zohri, Ibrahim Alhouti, Youmen Chaaban, Rania Sawalhi, Soheil Salha
This study is a qualitative investigation of education policies and decision making during COVID-19 pandemic in five Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) countries: Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, ...
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The past and the present: Following in the footsteps of a neo-Nazi movement in a rural Sweden school Power and Education Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Christer Mattsson, Thomas Johansson
This case study aimed to describe and analyse how students and staff at a school in a geographical area with a tradition of high neo-Nazi activism perceived and talked about racism and sexism in pa...
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Contesting spaces and civil resistance movements: A case study on India’s #FeeMustFall movement Power and Education Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Mayank Mishra
The paper intends to conduct a spatial reading of civil resistance movements taking Jawaharlal Nehru University’s (JNU) #FeeMustFall in India as the case study. Amidst the penetration of neoliberal...
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The cruel optimism of educational technology teacher ambassador spaces Power and Education Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Kali Thompson
In the last 20 years, neoliberal ideology has heavily influenced the U.S. education system, opening public education up to private corporations as a profitable business endeavor. In this paper, I i...
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1984 revisited: Implications for leaders in higher education in the United States Power and Education Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Charles Samuel Evans, Andrea J Kirk-Jenkins, Bowen Lader
This article offers a current perspective on George Orwell’s 1984 (1949) utopian society in the context of 2022 and implications for higher education and society in the United States. Societies hav...
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‘You just need to work harder’: Misalignments between the rhetoric of social mobility and education for social justice Power and Education Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Margaret Wood, Feng Su, Andrew Pennington
Examining the entanglement of democracy and social justice in education and the relationship to social mobility, this paper critiques the individualising nature of social mobility in policy discour...
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An ambivalent story: Queer children’s literature in Israel between 1986 and 2022 Power and Education Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Shai Rudin
Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, only 23 Queer literary works have been published for children and adolescents in Hebrew. This paper examines the characteristics of these wor...
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The modern classroom chair: Exploring the ‘coercive design’ of contemporary schooling Power and Education Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Neil Selwyn
This paper explores the role of material design as a form of institutional power within contemporary school settings. Drawing on concepts of ‘coercive design’ and ‘hostile architecture’ from design...
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“I don’t even recognize myself anymore”: An autoethnography of workplace bullying in higher education Power and Education Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Patricia Higgins
The purpose of this autoethnography was to contextualize a personal workplace bullying experience in higher education with the intention to promote action and change within higher education policy ...
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New variants of ultra-conservative Islamic schools in Indonesia: A study on Islamic school endeavor with Islamic group movement Power and Education Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Abdul Malik
After the reformation era in 1998, Islamic education, either Pesantren or Madrasah, has witnessed significant growth. Unlike during the Dutch, Soekarno, and Soeharto eras, when Islamic education re...
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Health-related Quality of life of medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study in Lebanon Power and Education Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Sanaa Awada, Lama Ahmad, Roula Bou Assi, Zad Rafei, Chaza Abou Omar, Georges Hatem
Objectives: This study aims to assess (i) the health-related Quality of Life (QoL) of medical students in Lebanon, (ii) its association with their general characteristics, and (iii) to investigate ...
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How motivational constructs predict reading amount and reading achievement: The role of reading attitude and reading self-concept Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Xiao-Yun Xiao
This study investigated the constructs of reading motivation (i.e., affective and cognitive reading attitude, and reading self-concept) and examined their relations with reading behavior and perfor...
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Challenges facing Thai higher education institutions financial stability and perceived institutional education quality Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Timothy Scott, Wenyu Guan
Thailand 4.0 is an ambitious reform strategy that seeks to offset the impact of the Thai aging population by transitioning the economy towards a knowledge-based society skilled in advanced technolo...
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The reproduction of inequality in Turkey: Power distribution in a primary class* Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Büşra TOMBAK-İLHAN, Mustafa GNDZ
This paper aims to understand the nature of classrooms, “power containers” in Gidden’s words (Giddens, 1986, p.136), in terms of inequality and power share. Inequalities in education have been a by...
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Are dyslexic children involved in delinquency? Issues and recommendations for a more fulfilling life Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Athirah Azhar, Dolly Paul Carlo, Zamri Hassan
No dyslexic children are left behind; it takes a village to raise a child. Thus, fostering the achievement potential of dyslexic children and avoiding their engagement in delinquent conduct is none...
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Changing teacher educational contexts: global discourses in teacher education and its effect on teacher education in national contexts Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Janet Douglas-Gardner, Christine Callender
Teacher education has gathered interest globally and nationally among teachers, educators, researchers and policy makers. Madalinska-Michalak, O ’Doherty and Assuno Flores (2018) observe that regio...
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Clustering of UK universities based on the research productivity of psychology departments Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Gaurav Saxena, Katerina A Lai, Peter J Allen
Higher education institutions in the UK have organised into mission groups for the advocacy of shared interests and ideologies. Although research productivity is claimed as a key point of differenc...
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State-university relations and its implication on internationalization of higher education Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-10-15 Medini Hegde, Neeta Inamdar
There has always been a power struggle regarding control over the administration of the university. In the Enlightenment era, the contenders were the State and the Church. However, as the role of t...
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What is it that we still don’t get? – Relational pedagogy and why relationships and connections matter in early childhood Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-09-09 Johanna Cliffe, Carla Solvason
Within this literature-based article the authors consider the importance and power of relationships, within the field of early years education and care (ECEC). Drawing on the lenses of attachment a...
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Higher education expansion in Kazakhstan and regime stability Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Seiilkhan Tokbolat
This research will analyze the ideological policy of the political regime of Kazakhstan in the field of higher education, which was supposed to find answers to the research question: why the Kazakh...
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Disability as performance/curriculum: The subversives mechanization of teaching/performing disability Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Brad Bierdz
In this article, there is a cripped arugmentation towards and away from performance as curricular. In other words, what we are trying to more fully grapple with is how curriculum within the school ...
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Principals’ power for achieving quality education in secondary schools of Ethiopia Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Demissie Molla Mesfin
This study comprehends the power of Ethiopian secondary school principals and learns valuable theories and models towards the quality of education. The study was delimited distinctly in government ...
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Redesigning and recomputing the future of education: The role of technology, the learning process, personality traits, and diversity in learning systems Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-08-14 Khalid Arar, Anna Saiti, Miguel Guajardo
The main actor in the learning process is the learner. The concept of “learner” goes beyond the educational level. The new reality in the educational environment presents challenges for the learnin...
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Voices from the rising of the curtain: Democracy and deliberation bringing the disadvantaged to the fore Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-08-12 Daeyoung Goh
A large and growing body of literature has attempted to devise discussion frameworks for school education. However, conceptualizing deliberation able to appreciate the expression of socially disadv...
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Stigmatized: In/Forming identities of children in Care Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Melanie D Janzen
Stigma devalues, discriminates, and magnifies social inequalities. For children in care, who have far worse educational outcomes than children who are not in care, stigma negatively effects the oth...
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Criticality in undergraduate education: Is a non-critical classroom experience a lesson in deceit? Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-08-07 Mark D Halx
This article is an exploration of the potential of a more purposeful application of criticality in undergraduate classrooms. Conventional pedagogy, often lecture-based, does not prepare students we...
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Am I audible? Teacher’s alienation with online teaching Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-08-06 Wahid Ahmad Dar
Using qualitative data, this article unleashes the narratives of teachers (n = 20), engaged in the universities and colleges of Kashmir, about synchronous online teaching. Their narratives were rep...
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Disabled students doing activism: Borrowing from and trespassing neoliberal reason in English higher education Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-08-06 Rille Raaper, Francesca Peruzzo, Mette Westander
The neoliberal rationale in English higher education promotes institutional and individual competition for economic success, often at the cost of equity and universalism. Within such context, there...
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From classroom teacher to teacher educator: Critical insights and experiences of beginning teacher educators from Jamaica, England and United Arab Emirates Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-07-16 Carmel Roofe, Kulwinder Maude, Sudha G Sunder
This exploratory study sought to investigate how beginning teacher educators (BTEs hereafter) constantly examine and reframe their identities when transitioning from being a classroom teacher to being a teacher educator of pre-service teachers. Through interviews of nine participants selected from Jamaica, England and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the paper presents a cross-cultural discourse. Beginning
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Revisiting the sense of education from a critical perspective to contribute to social justice Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-07-16 Priscilla Echeverria
This discussion article offers a revision of the meaning of educating in times of neoliberalism when we care about social justice, proposing that more than a speech about it, a critical education w...
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The powerful, the powerless, and the empowered: Visualizations of power in high school and university through social network analysis Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Maria Litsa, Alexandra Bekiari
The investigation uses Popitz’s power theory (1992) to examine relationships among social power position, attractiveness, and verbal aggressiveness comparing social networks of high school and university students. 117 high school PE students and 195 university PE students participated in the research completing both a network and a joint non-network questionnaire. Visone 1.1 software was used for the
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Fostering creativity, equity, and inclusion through social justice praxis Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Karen Ramlackhan, Nicholas Catania
The increasing population of culturally and linguistically diverse students in the United States necessitates the use of culturally responsive practices for equitable and inclusive educational systems. This duoethnographic study explores how social justice, equity, and inclusion principles are embedded within our research and teaching in higher education programs for leadership and teacher education
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Cultivating reflective teachers: Challenging power and promoting pedagogy of self-assessment in Australian, Bhutanese, and Canadian teacher education programs Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-07-02 Christopher DeLuca, Jill Willis, Khandu Dorji, Ann Sherman
In this article, we look at three teacher education programs across three countries—Australia, Bhutan, and Canada—to examine how reflection is cultivated in pre-service teachers (also referred to as teacher candidates) through a pedagogy of self-assessment. We begin from the premise that a cornerstone of effective teaching is the capacity of an educator to reflect on their practice and to use their
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Unearthing the common core for reflective teacher training in Antigua and Barbuda, England, and Canada Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Donna-Maria B Maynard, Mia A Jules, Ian A Marshall
Teacher education and training vary across the world, yet research from diverse cultures supports the development of reflective teachers. Claiming that the complex dynamics of the 21st-century classroom can be managed best by reflective teachers. Through the reflective process, teachers are empowered as change agents to modify learning environments to benefit their students. Teachers hold the power
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Addressing structural violence and systemic inequities in education: A qualitative study on Indigenous youth schooling experiences in Canada Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Amanda C Wager, Jeffrey P Ansloos, Rachel Thorburn
In this qualitative study we demonstrate the critical ways that Indigenous youth experience structural violence and systemic inequities in the context of education. In particular, this youth-engaged study explores three key themes regarding (1) the social ecologies of education, (2) curriculum, and (3) pedagogy. Considerations of how these issues factor substantially in Indigenous young peoples’ experiences
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The injustices of school district fragmentation Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Jeremy Kingston Cynamon, Sonia Maria Pavel
The authors argue that from the perspective of distributive justice, school district fragmentation—meaning both the existing reality of hyper-proliferated school districts and the practice of further breaking larger districts into smaller ones—produces three distinct injustices. First, it undermines racial solidarity and the bonds of community. Second, it violates the demands of procedural justice
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Teachers’ motivation to choose teaching and remain in the profession: A comparative mixed methods study in Jamaica, Poland and Turkey Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Cynthia Onyefulu, Joanna Madalinska-Michalak, Bunyamin Bavli
The comparative, mixed methods international and cross-cultural study aimed to determine the factors that motivated teachers in Jamaica, Poland and Turkey to choose teaching as a career and ascertain what motivated the teachers at different stages to remain in teaching. Data were collected through the use of the questionnaire, which experts validated and had an overall reliability coefficient of 0
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The impact of COVID-19 on UK university students: Understanding the interconnection of issues experienced during lockdown Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Paul McGivern, Jack Shepherd
The pandemic profoundly disrupted university students’ lives. Many students have parenting and/or caring responsibilities and work part-time jobs. Undergraduate cohorts today are extremely diverse, comprised of people from a wide range of social, ethnic, economical and cultural backgrounds. Research has highlighted the different ways the pandemic has affected the lives of students globally. During
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Do Japanese students lack critical thinking? Addressing the misconception Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-06-04 Soyhan Egitim
In recent years, content integrated language education has taken center stage in Japanese university English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) settings. The emphasis on content has created an opportunity for students to demonstrate analytical thinking, assessment, inference, and problem-solving skills through oral communication activities in English (L2). However, the opportunity may be perceived as a challenge
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Teacher educators’ perceptions of practices and issues affecting initial teacher education programmes in Jamaica, Greece and Nigeria Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Maria Chalari, Cynthia Onyefulu, Olufunke Fasoyiro
This paper presents the findings of a comparative study carried out in 2018, which aimed to explore and compare teacher educators’ perceptions of initial teacher education (ITE) programmes in Jamaica, Greece and Nigeria. This study endeavoured to add intercultural perspectives to the study of ITE and to underlie the idea that ITE has become increasingly bound up in the processes of neo-liberalism and
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Yesterday and today: (extra)ordinary records in an area of agrarian reform in Brazil Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Línlya Sachs, Cintia Aparecida Paião, Whendelly LL Alves
This paper aims to present two potential instruments that will address the lack of knowledge in regard to the context of students’ reality from teaching professionals in a specific school, these be...
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Getting past the gatekeeper: Cultural competence, field access and researching gender-based violence – evidence from four countries Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Paul Miller, Gillian Kirkman, Susan Timmins, Rukmini Banerjee, Anne Panicker, Kenisha Nelson, Adele Jones, Eric Ochen
Increasingly researchers are recognising the importance of including the perspectives of children and young people in research and in the development of interventions and innovations, in order to understand their lives on their own terms. However, due to potential risks posed to children and young people in research, gatekeepers have an increasingly important role in play in granting access and in
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Interpretive frameworks for narrative inquiry studies of English language teaching in Asia: Displacing the research context? Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Daron B Loo, Jariya Sairattanain
Interpretive frameworks may be helpful to understand narratives, yet they also risk displacing unique information of the research context. In this paper, we argue that such is the case in narrative inquiry studies of English language teaching set in the Asian context, perhaps due to the pressure to use familiar interpretive frameworks that are sanctioned by scholars. Through meta-ethnography, we examined
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National language dilemma and its potential role in nation building: Academicians’ perception in Pakistan Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-03-25 Tahira Begum
Background: Pakistan inherits a multilingual heritage. Along with Urdu, 70 different languages are spoken. The 1973 Constitution officially recognizes Urdu as Pakistan's only national language. Purpose: Until today, the adoption and promotion of Urdu as a medium of educational instruction has remained a point of controversy. Existing research lacks the voice of academicians on the issue. Research Design:
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Researching in tabooed phenomena: A discussion of method, theory, and ethics Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-03-20 Gerd Christensen
The aim of this article is to discuss how to research into phenomena that no one wants to talk about: silenced and tabooed phenomena. With the outset in data culled in two research projects concerning student’s conceptualization of small group learning, the article discusses methodology, theory, and ethics in researching into silenced and tabooed phenomena of in educational settings. The article is
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Transforming through power: Teachers identity in schools Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-03-20 Madhu Narayanan
Schools are unique institutions where structural and cultural dynamics shape the actions of humans. Power is everywhere, and the structures of schools channel power in ways that shape the identities of teachers. Yet, teachers find ways to challenge existing dynamics and in their confrontations with power can create new ways of being. This study uses a grounded theory approach to analyze interviews
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Jamaican teachers’ perspectives on their power and empowerment at their schools Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Canute S Thompson, Ann-Marie Wilmot
This qualitative study explores the perspectives of nine teachers in leadership positions on the issue of power, specifically the amount of power that they possess and how that level of power impacts their work. Data for the study were gathered using a focus group interview. The study found that most of the teachers have a common understanding of power but assess their level of empowerment to be at
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Defining and finding an endgame in education on race Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Jerel M Ezell, Angie Torres-Beltran, Samiha Hamdi
Long regarded as the “great equalizer” across all social identity categories, including race/ethnicity, class, and gender, the education system plays a pronounced role in the curation and dissemination of knowledge on social stratification. In contemporary times, this role is perhaps no more evident than in academia’s gatekeeping role in discussions of race and racism. Contemporary racial injustice
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Decolonizing and re-theorizing radical democratic education: Toward a politics and practice of refusal Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Michalinos Zembylas
The aim of this article is twofold: first, it seeks to discuss the relationship between democracy and colonization, and to examine the implications of this relationship for democratic education and, second, it turns to decolonial thinking as a resource for critiquing and reconstructing “radical democratic education.” A decolonial critique offers two crucial insights to radical democratic education
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Rejecting instrumental-deterministic CALL: Towards a critical reading of power in online English education Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Michael D Smith
As online education expands in the wake of recent global events, concerns over the privileging of dominant languages, cultures and epistemologies gain prominence. Despite the explicit biases and assumptions found within hegemonic learning contexts, however, inquiry within the domain of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) typically manifests via decontextualised interpretations. Consequently
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Demystifying the academy: Resistance, ethics and abuse of power Power and Education Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Ana Bravo-Moreno (PhD)
The purpose of this article is to examine academia and the abuse of power based on auto-ethnographic research. I draw on my experiences across 12 universities in different locations in Spain, the UK and the USA that expose the way power is embedded in institutions of higher education and how it is maintained. This article analyses the exploration of inequalities which concerns particular social divisions