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Hadeel Alkhateeb – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This study examines how language planning is deployed to address security concerns. Specifically, in a Foucauldian sense, it problematises the conditions, approaches and contexts of the language planning mechanisms Israel has used to communicate with Arab speakers in Gaza, the West Bank and neighbouring Arab nations, aiming to maintain security…
Descriptors: Language Planning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Hebrew
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Hoang, Ngoc T. H.; Hamid, M. Obaidul – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
As the power of tests lies in their uses, language tests that are used to assess immigration eligibility exercise enormous power. Critical Language Testing calls for exposing the power of tests by examining the intentions of introducing tests and their effects on individuals and society, especially from the perspective of test-takers. This case…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Language Tests, Testing
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Huddy, Leonie; Feldman, Stanley – American Psychologist, 2011
The 9/11 terrorist attacks have had profound effect on U.S. domestic and foreign security policy, leading to several expensive wars and the erosion of civil liberties (under the USA PATRIOT Act). We review evidence on political reactions to the 9/11 attacks and conclude that subjective reactions to terrorism played an important role in shaping…
Descriptors: Terrorism, National Security, Computer Security, Foreign Policy
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Mills, Martin; Keddie, Amanda – Educational Review, 2010
This paper examines the impact of a politics of resentment, neo-liberal policies, and security concerns on issues of gender justice in schools in various western countries. We argue that since the 1990s gender justice in schools has been severely hampered by a politics of resentment, or backlash politics, and the presence of neo-liberal discourses…
Descriptors: National Security, Sex Fairness, Psychological Patterns, Males
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Giacomino, Don E.; Brown, Jill; Akers, Michael D. – American Journal of Business Education, 2011
This paper examines the values and value systems of business students from a private mid-western university using the Rokeach Value Survey and the Musser and Orke Typology of Personal Values. The findings of this study are compared with the results of studies in the latter part of the 1990's and early 2000 in order to provide some insights…
Descriptors: Values, College Students, Business Administration Education, Student Attitudes
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Victoroff, Jeff – Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2005
This article reviews the state of the art of available theories and data regarding the psychology of terrorism. Data and theoretical material were gathered from the world's unclassified literature. Multiple theories and some demographic data have been published, but very few controlled empirical studies have been conducted investigating the…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Psychology, Psychological Patterns, Behavioral Science Research