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Tatiana Mikhaylova; Daniel Pettersson – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
The concept of differentiation holds immense significance in education, touching upon aspects like access, inclusion, justice, and equality. However, it is also a complex and elusive notion, which acquires different meanings across historical and cultural contexts. This article explores the shifting reasoning about differentiation in the Swedish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individualized Instruction, Educational Policy, Politics of Education
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Lewis, Andrew – Perspectives in Education, 2019
With the ascent of the National Party to power in South Africa in 1948, education reflected apartheid thinking and practices and implemented the ideology of separate development in educational institutions. Pronouncements of the African child's inferiority were reflected in government policy and legislation. The origins of this thinking and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Foreign Countries, Race, Educational Policy
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Gillborn, David – Peabody Journal of Education, 2018
Derrick Bell's thesis, that racism is a permanent feature of society, is frequently misrepresented by detractors as signaling a view of racism as monolithic--bold, obvious, and unchanging. This paper argues that critical race theory [CRT] reveals a very different understanding of racism as relentless, yet fluid, and quick to morph depending on…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Race, Achievement Gap, Racial Differences
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Marishane, Nylon Ramodikoe – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2016
School improvement is admittedly the main business of school leadership. However, while there is agreement on the importance of school improvement, sustaining this improvement remains a challenge. The challenge seems to lie in the disconnection between the leader and the context in which the school operates. This chapter presents contextual…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Educational Improvement, Leadership Effectiveness, Context Effect