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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"purpose of schooling"”.
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Transformative leadership and the purpose of schooling in affluent communities
… system has represented an illustrative microcosm of the political tensions that lie at the heart of our philosophical understanding of democracy and constitutional authority. These tensions—between the idealism of Thomas Jefferson and the realism of Alexander Hamilton, between democratic politics …
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A Moving Imagination in Spaces of Distress: Teacher and Student Agency in a Science Classroom
… (e.g. personal, social, emotional, academic) of our classroom community, and the dismantling of inequitable practices and unjust policies that we recognized in our science classroom, school and/or community while utilizing the process of teacher and student participatory action research …
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Beyond the failing school: Race, space, and opportunity in Chicago public schools
The responsibility of public education is rarely attached to public officials, urban planners, or the business community. Instead much of the research today looks to parents, school administrators, or students in an attempt to understand the problems of America’s public schools. The objective of …
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Politics, Education and the Imagination in South African and Brazilian student-led mobilisations (2015-16)
… This dissertation explores the intersection of politics, education, and the imagination amongst students who mobilised in Brazil and South Africa during the 2015-2016 protest waves. The study focuses on how students learnt from their activism, reimagining both education and society more …