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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"student movements"”.
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Aluta Continua: Social Movements and the Making of Ghana's Fourth Republic, 1978 - 1993
… associations such as the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), the Movement for Freedom and Justice (MFJ), Christian Council of Ghana (CCG), and the Catholic Bishops' Conference (CBC) generated social movements which were critical to the success of Ghana's …
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Student Voice: How the Presence of School-Wide Student Voice Initiatives at the Elementary Level Impact the School Community
<p>Although the presence of student voice in schools has diminished over the past few decades due to a nationwide focus on standardized testing and school accountability, recent student movements and a push for equity and engagement in school reform efforts have brought this topic back to the …
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The political economy of labor and student mobilizations in egypt 1919 - 2011 : a social movement theory approach
… the political economy of the Egyptian labor and student movements. It uses elements of social movement theory, specifically: political opportunities and threats, framing, diffusion and spillover within a broad political economy framework to assess mobilizations by the labor and student movement …
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The path to free education: exploration of student revolts in South African Universities from an archival perspective
Forms of student resistance for social change have challenged and shaped the political customs of South Africa for decades. This was shown in the recent 2015/16 student uprisings in tertiary institutions that brought the public to a standstill and provided immediate debate on the future of …
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Jazz, education, and alternative culture in South Africa: Pedagogy and music in transgressive action
… violence and repression. I focus on the movements of People’s Education for People’s Power and jazz which aligned with People’s Power ideology, extending to People’s Culture. I show how people responded to this energy of repression through radical innovation and creativity in jazz and …
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Student Radicalism in Tennessee, 1954-1970
This dissertation examines student radicalism in Tennessee between Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) and the national backlash against the Kent State University shootings in Kent, Ohio in May 1970. As the first statewide study of student activism, and one of the few examinations of …
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Middle Class Guerrilas: The Failure of the Mexican Student Revolutionaries to Build a Mass Movement
… This dirty war saw the rise of the middle-class student communist revolutionary, where many armed urban guerrilla movements would emerge against the dictatorial one-party Mexican state of the Partido Institucional Revolucionario, or the PRI. By looking at writings and rhetoric used by these …
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Decolonisation, Africanisation, and Epistemic Citizenship in post-Rhodes Must Fall South African Universities
Having received renewed intensity from student movements across the South African higher education landscape, decolonisation, as an intellectual project, remains a popular emancipatory framework within universities, disciplinary communities, scholarly networks globally and in South African higher …
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Three essays on the impact of student assignment policies
… of three essays, which study the impact of student assignment policies. The first two papers investigate the impacts of the removal of school desegregation plans on school racial segregation and on ninth grade repetition rates in the U.S. The third paper examines the impact of the school …
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Apartheid in Schaarbeek: Belgian Migrant Labor and Human Rights in Europe’s Carbon Transition, 1945-1973
… labor unions, and allying with new left and student movements. In their work, they were deeply cognisant of their colonial past and present, something which often fell on deaf ears among unfriendly state policies, violent police institutions, anti-immigrant people movements, and even left …
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The dialectical tradition in South Africa
… Western Marxist ideas within the trade union and student movements in South Africa, which are also explored here. The most immediate context in which the future direction of this tradition is being decided is that of the new politics of Afrikaans, which has drawn on the legacy of Afrikaner …
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Black Power in a "Lily-White" School: The Black Campus Movement at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota
… upper Midwest, these reforms included minority student recruitment and the creation of programs oriented towards diversity. Over time, a number of minority students began to act and react to the actions and attitudes of the various administrations, the campuses, and the community, resulting in a …
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For Alma Mater: Fighting for Change at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
… Black colleges and universities concerning more student autonomy and more alumni involvement. This shift in attitude was primarily due to Black students and alumni who rebelled against the paternalistic White power structure that existed at their schools. At the core of this conflict, stood …
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Student protests and the brand image of a university of technology
Submitted in fulfillment of the degree requirements of Master’s in Management Science: Marketing, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2023.
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Chicanos in education : an examination of the 1968 east Los Angeles student walkouts!
… witnessed the up rise of thousands of Chicano students when they walked out of their high school on an early morning in March. The purpose of this study was to further understand the 1968 student walkouts as presented by student participants. The study was carried out as a phenomenological …
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Exploring audience inclusion in Facebook and Twitter reporting among young university students in South Africa: The case of #FeesMustFall
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirement of the Degree Master of Journalism, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2021.
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The Free University of New York: The New Left's Self-Education and Transborder Activism
… Radicals concerned with Third World liberation movements created the anti-Vietnam War group May 2nd Movement, from which the Free University was born. Although FUNY only existed for a short period of time, from 1965 to 1968 it functioned as a center for radical education and politics for …
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A longitudinal sentiment analysis of the #FeesMustFall campaign on Twitter
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Masters of Information and Communications Technology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2019.
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Politics, Education and the Imagination in South African and Brazilian student-led mobilisations (2015-16)
When students contest an education system they experience as oppressive, what do they imagine could exist instead? 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. …