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Dyson, Bronwen – Second Language Research, 2023
This article enters the debate about the complex and dynamical nature of second language acquisition (SLA) by discussing and commenting on Pallotti's critique of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST). Pallotti's critique brings to the fore the argument that, due to its anti-reductionist stance, CDST research fails to observe three fundamental…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Language Research
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Biesta, Gert; Heugh, Kathleen; Cervinkova, Hana; Rasinski, Lotar; Osborne, Sam; Forde, Deirdre; Wrench, Alison; Carter, Jenni; Säfström, Carl Anders; Soong, Hannah; O'Keeffe, Suzanne; Paige, Kathryn; Rigney, Lester-Irabinna; O'Toole, Leah; Hattam, Robert; Peters, Michael A.; Tesar, Marek – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
Public education is not just a way to organise and fund education. It is also the expression of a particular ideal about education and of a particular way to conceive of the relationship between education and society. The ideal of public education sees education as an important dimension of the common good and as an important institution in…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Philosophy, Correlation, Neoliberalism
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Gough, Noel – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2014
Environmental education owes its very existence to a particular interpretation of reality. The author's purpose in this article is to examine critically the "selected fictions" on which that view of reality is based--to examine the ways in which perceptions of environmental problems and issues are "conditioned by our position in…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Fiction, Sustainability, Sustainable Development
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Evers, Colin W.; Lakomski, Gabriele – Journal of Educational Administration, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to offer a critical reflection on ideas that have been published in the "Journal of Educational Administration" over the last 50 years that present perspectives on the nature of educational administration and its various aspects, that are alternatives to the mainstream systems-scientific view of…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Epistemology, Content Analysis, Intellectual History