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Fi Belcher – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
As global concerns about climate change deepen, Australian sustainability curriculum plays an increasingly significant role in the way students relate to concepts of home, belonging, and the future. Such futures are imagined in a local context shaped both by ongoing colonial processes and the continued presence of First Peoples, in which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Colonialism, Sustainable Development, Indigenous Populations
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Horner, Lindsey K. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2013
This paper explores the practices of one small non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Mindanao working innovatively to challenge power and interests by linking resources to local communities who control their productivity. While this may seem like social capital, I suggest that the agency over production, and the deeply political and ideological…
Descriptors: Nongovernmental Organizations, Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, Power Structure
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Baldauf, Richard B., Jr. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2006
Language planning is normally thought of in terms of large-scale, usually national planning, often undertaken by governments and meant to influence, if not change, ways of speaking or literacy practices within a society. It normally encompasses four aspects: status planning (about society), corpus planning (about language), language-in-education…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Power Structure, Public Policy, Guidelines
Swanson, Bert E.; Cohen, Richard A. – 1977
Small town community improvement planning is often subjected to urban type analysis. When concepts applicable to the largest cities are grafted onto small towns, a misunderstanding of small town problems and prospects is often the result. Social ecology offers a framework for understanding what a small town is, how it functions, and what is…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Community Development, Community Planning