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Glenn Toh – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
As part of my work as an educator, I see the need to surface for discussion what might indeed be considered as acts of oppression on the part of peer reviewers when certain aspects of knowing and meaning are misrecognized, obscured, or suppressed. Drawing on observations concerning coercive and oppressive relational and educational practices found…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Evaluators, Power Structure, Ideology
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Darren Cogavin – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
This article considers how neoliberalism has created a reductionist view of lifelong learning in the UK focused on upskilling workers for the labour market. This critical policy analysis uses Marx's theory of labour-power, as conceptualised by Glenn Rikowski, to examine the Skills and Post-16 Education Act, 2022 and to identify its ideological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Neoliberalism, Lifelong Learning
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Bosio, Emiliano; Torres, Carlos Alberto – Policy Futures in Education, 2019
This paper presents a remarkable conversation with Carlos Alberto Torres about Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in relation to research, teaching, and learning in the USA. Torres is a Distinguished Professor of Education, UNESCO UCLA Chair on Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education, UCLA and Founding Director of the Paulo Freire…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Educational Theories, Global Approach, College Faculty
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Suissa, Judith – Policy Futures in Education, 2017
Neel Mukherjee's novel, "The Lives of Others", which depicts characters dealing with a situation of extreme and violent oppression, is used as the basis for looking more closely at some of the theoretical assumptions about hope, agency and critical consciousness that underpin Critical Pedagogy. It is suggested that it may be…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Violence, Ethics, Novels
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McLaren, Peter; Jandric, Petar – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
This conversation is the first systemic attempt to capture Peter McLaren's ideas about the relationships between critical revolutionary pedagogy and virtuality. It introduces the main problems with educational postmodernism, explains Peter's return towards the Marxist-humanist trajectory, and addresses contemporary challenges to…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Postmodernism, Marxian Analysis, Humanism
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Morris, Doug – Policy Futures in Education, 2012
This article reflects on Henry Giroux's work as a critical public intellectual and the important role his work plays in fostering educated hope and insurgent possibilities during our present times of daily and longer term catastrophes. In addition to attempting to capture the experience of what it means and how it feels to read Giroux along with…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Theory Practice Relationship, Critical Theory, Humanization
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Feria-Galicia, Joe – Policy Futures in Education, 2011
Within the culture of central Illinois, mascot politics has been a hugely contentious issue. Since 1926, the university employed the use of the fabricated "Chief" Illiniwek to motivate and entertain fans at athletic events. Since the late 1980s, Native American students began a campaign to end this "tradition". This article…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Group Unity, Visual Aids, College Athletics
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Katz-Buonincontro, Jen – Policy Futures in Education, 2011
How does improvisational theatre promote aesthetic learning in leaders, emphasizing emotion and somatic, or sensory, knowledge? While improvisational theatre has been used in organizational settings, there is little empirical research describing the aesthetic learning process geared towards preparing educational leaders. Based on a case study of…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Teaching Methods, Theater Arts, Creative Activities
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Beck, Sam – Policy Futures in Education, 2011
This autobiographical account provides a historical map of landmarks in the author's personal and professional life that led him to his present understanding of public anthropology as public pedagogy and vice versa. He indicates that his experiences led him to study sociocultural anthropology to investigate learning from experience, a foundational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Autobiographies, Reflection
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Graham, Scott – Policy Futures in Education, 2008
Contemporary efforts to rethink the philosophical foundation of critical pedagogy are part of the ongoing project to make the field relevant to current struggles against oppression. Inherent to this project is an invitation to account for the plurality of ways and spaces in which privilege is performed in North American society and the troubling…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, North Americans, Educational Philosophy, Social Theories
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Kellner, Douglas; Share, Jeff – Policy Futures in Education, 2007
The concept of critical media literacy expands the notion of literacy to include different forms of mass communication and popular culture, as well as deepens the potential of literacy education to critically analyze relationships between media and audiences, information and power. The authors argue that critical media literacy is crucial for…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Literacy Education, Federal Aid, Popular Culture
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Weiner, Eric J. – Policy Futures in Education, 2004
As workers throughout the globe struggle to gain control over the conditions in which they labor as well as the means by which capital is produced, the importance of understanding class struggle, class formation and class consciousness as they relate to education and schooling takes on a new urgency. In the early part of the twenty-first century,…
Descriptors: Social Class, Critical Theory, Consciousness Raising, Educational Theories