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Kim, Mijoo – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2022
When students feel alienated, they develop various avoidance strategies, such as becoming spectators, blending into the background, faking participation, pretending to be sick or have an injury, or simply not attending class. Consequently, students lose out on opportunities to improve their skills and interact with others, which alienates them…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Alienation, Learner Engagement, Foreign Countries
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DeBoer, Jennifer – Peabody Journal of Education, 2012
As detailed in the articles throughout this issue, the U.S. education system experienced a number of structural developments throughout the 20th century. These changes served to shift the landscape of decision-making authority in multiple areas of primary and secondary schooling. This article provides an international perspective on the changes…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Change, Comparative Education, Global Approach
Apple, Michael W., Ed.; Au, Wayne, Ed.; Gandin, Luis Armando, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education" is the first authoritative reference work to provide an international analysis of the relationship between power, knowledge, education, and schooling. Rather than focusing solely on questions of how we teach efficiently and effectively, contributors to this volume push further…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, International Education, Political Attitudes, Economic Development
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Wignaraja, Ponna – International Social Science Journal, 1996
Traces the search for economic development alternatives that go beyond conventional neo-classical and Marxist theory and practice. Outlines case studies of social and economic transformation in South Korea and China and delineates the differences between similar attempts in Latin America and Eastern Europe. (MJP)
Descriptors: Capitalism, Communism, Disadvantaged Environment, Economic Change