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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Critical education."”.
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Constructing Critical Change: Learning from Elementary Teachers' Engagement with Inclusive Critical Education
… engagement with gender-focused inclusive critical education (Page, 2017). Specifically, I sought to learn from seven elementary educators’ reflections upon their work the ways in which they engaged with gender-focused inclusive critical education within their school sites, especially …
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The Laughter Behind: Curriculum of Place, the Hypermasculine Imperative, and the Critical Education of a Southern Cop
… the question is filtered through the lens of critical autoethnography, or the analysis of personal experience through an examination of personal stories framed by the tenets of critical social theory and encompassing some aspects of postmodernism, poststructuralism, and psychoanalysis to …
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The Matt Talbot Community Trust: A case study of participants' perception of education in a social and political context
… for its participants and their families. Education is one of the organisation’s key roles in this regard. This is an exploratory case study which focuses on the views of Matt Talbot Community Trust participants. The study will explore their views in a social and political context. This …
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German literature and education for conscientization
This thesis introduces the concepts of critical education as inspired by the Frankfurt School of thought in their formulation of a critical theory of society. It also develops the critical educators' methodological approach to teaching, known as 'critical pedagogy'. Over and above this, this thesis …
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International student navigation through u.s.-american colleges and universities: an autoethnographic analysis of discourse
… from autoethnography, discourse analysis, and critical education perspectives, I also use an autoethnographic analysis of discourse to understand the types of experiences colleges and universities wish international students to have. Textual strategies and my reflections and experiences form …
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Ontario's curriculum for individuals with disabilities : a textual analysis
… elementary schools curriculum. The study used a critical social analysis perspective to employ a textual discourse analysis on the Planning [title of subject] Programs for Students with Special Education Needs (PPSSEN) section of the curriculum. The present study utilized Parker's (1992) seven …
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Agentive Personhood: Finding Yourself Through Serving Others
… forefront of development and learning. I discuss educational spaces that give young learners the opportunity to recognize their ability to shift their perception of themselves and the world and lead to social change. I address this topic through the lens of my own experiences and the experiences …
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Mayibuye! Let Us Reclaim! Assessing the Role of Memorialization in Post-Conflict Rebuilding
… and the use of memorialization as a catalyst for critical education--that may increase memorialization's potential to contribute to post-conflict reconstruction.</p>
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The Forms of Capital and Intergenerational Change in Higher Education Access: A Case Study of Aranguez
The study explores higher education access in a marginalised community within a post-colonial context, specifically, why access was low given supportive government policies. The case study of Aranguez, a former sugar-cane plantation in Trinidad, involved interviews with descendants of East Indian …
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Globalization, Critical Post-colonialism and Career and Technical Education in Africa: Challenges and Possibilities.
… Africa (SSA), technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is central to political discourses and educational concerns as a means for economic development, poverty alleviation, youth employment, and social mobility. Yet, there is an intriguing contradiction between this …
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The social construction of gender in the practical arts
… patriarchal structures. The study is grounded in critical education theory, feminist theory, and ethnographic research. The specific site for the study is the knowledge area described as the Practical Arts, namely home economics and technical studies. The research is limited to a single Grade 8, …
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Non-conviction-Based Forfeiture of corruptly acquired assets to promote the right to education in Malawi.
… socio-economic rights, particularly the right to education, by diverting public resources intended for essential services. Despite constitutional guarantees and extensive international and regional commitments, the education sector remains chronically underfunded, resulting in overcrowded …
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A national study of public school board member demographics, management concerns and opinions on critical issues in education
… management concerns and opinions on critical issues in education of public school board members throughout the nation. An historical review of social composition, concerns and issues was conducted from studies of school board members and school boards. Recommendations as to suggested …
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From Technicians to Teachers: The New Zealand Curriculum and the Development of Ethical Teacher Professionality
… of ethical teacher professionality? The dominant critical position in New Zealand education theory is that teaching has been 'deprofessionalised' by the reforms of the education system since 1989, while dominant 'official' discourse postulates 'reprofessionalisation' through 'effective pedagogy'. …
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Home and away: The effects of patriotic education on Chinese international students in Australia through a critique of identity theories and policy myth making
… a lifetime of loyalty and state-based patriotic education in China. The key research question, framed by Bourdieu’s habitus and field concepts, asks: What happens to these students’ identity after studying and living in Australia? The study is grounded in the critical education discipline and …
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Workforce Education and Development Curriculum Responsiveness to Culturally and Internationally Diverse Graduate Students: A Mixed Methods Study
… to examine students' perceptions on workforce education and development (WED) curriculum responsiveness to culturally and internationally diverse graduate students, at a Midwestern university on four dimensions: teaching strategies (to include delivery), curriculum inclusiveness, international …
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An investigation into gender dynamics in saxophone teaching methodology in South Africa
… differences. This research is rooted in the critical pedagogy framework, which seeks to conscientize both the student and the teacher through transformation in conversation and education. Quantative comprehensive literature review of medical research and a comprehensive review of woodwind …
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Decolonisation as a social change framework and its impact on the development of Indigenous-based curricula for Helping Professionals in mainstream Tertiary Education Organisations
… peoples undertook to situate Indigenous-based education programmes in mainstream post-secondary/tertiary education organisations. Indigenous-based helping programmes assist to progress Indigenous aspirations for self-determination and are sites that center Indigenous worldviews. A …
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Problematizing the present and possibilizing the future : designing a critical historiography "history of the present" framework for social studies education.
… of the present’ curricular framework for critical historical analysis in social studies classrooms using a Design-Based Research methodology with a Constructivist Grounded Theory approach and an embedded multiple case study. By drawing on various approaches to critical historiography, …
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Statemaking Through Distant Presence in the Urban Periphery. An exploration of Scaled Education Actors Negotiating Possible Futures in a Changing Sociopolitical Landscape in Chile.
The education system in Chile has been a paradigmatic case of implementing privatisation policies in schooling to the detriment of public education. Nevertheless, during the last decade, following a series of high-school student protests, the country has been slowly implementing remedial policies …