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Casey, Leo; Ricker, Mary Cathryn D. – American Educator, 2022
From the 1960s until his death in 1997, Albert Shanker was a major force in expanding the labor movement, defending and improving public education, and fighting for all people to live freely in democracies. As president of the United Federation of Teachers in New York City and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), he became known…
Descriptors: Public Education, Labor Relations, Unions, Advocacy
Nightingale, Paul – Power and Education, 2019
Education researchers continue to cite Bernstein's 'Education cannot compensate for society', while Bernstein's own focus on 'in-school processes' was echoed by Michael Gove's insistence that there are 'no excuses' for low working-class achievement in schools. Bernstein's ideas illuminate the relationship, within education policy, of…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Democracy, Power Structure, Foreign Countries
Ridley, David – Power and Education, 2017
This article approaches the question of how far critical pedagogy can be institutionalised through a series of historical and contemporary examples. Current debates concerned with the co-operative university are examined, as well as histories of independent working-class education and the free university movement. Throughout this history, critical…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Neoliberalism, Universities, Educational History
Finn, Patrick J. – Theory Into Practice, 2012
Elite boarding schools endeavor to instill in their students elite-class solidarity, strong beliefs in both meritocracy and the essential rightness of the status quo, and practical political know-how. Each of these objectives is wholly compatible with the self-interest of their students and their families. In the vast majority of working-class…
Descriptors: Social Class, Boarding Schools, Social Status, Cultural Capital
Schutz, Aaron – Educational Theory, 2011
Throughout the twentieth century, middle-class progressives embraced visions of democracy rooted in their relatively privileged life experiences. Progressive educators developed pedagogies designed to nurture the individual voice within egalitarian classrooms, assuming that collective action in the public realm could be modeled on the relatively…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Democracy, Community Action, Social Change
Livingstone, D. W. – Journal of Education and Work, 2010
There is substantial evidence that formal educational attainments increasingly exceed the educational job requirements of the employed labour force in many advanced market economies--a phenomenon variously termed "underemployment", "underutilisation", or "overqualification". Conversely, both experiential learning and workplace case studies suggest…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Underemployment, Working Class, Democracy
Bjerkaker, Sturla – Convergence, 2006
The study circle is described as a democratic and emancipatory method for learning that can be summarized in three words: learning by sharing. This method offers opportunities and possibilities for all participants to contribute their previous knowledge and experiences through open and democratic dialogue. As a method for "liberal adult…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Working Class, Adult Education, Extension Education
Angus, Lawrence – 1986
This monograph examines fundamental themes of equality and democracy prominent in Australian educational discourse and reform efforts during the past century, particularly since World War II. The first section argues that these ideals, while representing positive and progressive intentions, have not contributed to social justice but have led to…
Descriptors: Democracy, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education