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Anastasia Liasidou; Sotiroula Liasidou – Power and Education, 2025
The article discusses recent Higher Education (HE) initiatives to introduce the Sunflower Scheme, which enables students with hidden disabilities to 'discreetly' indicate the existence of a disability to access support. A significant problem related to persons with hidden disabilities lies in their frequent reluctance to disclose their…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Attitudes toward Disabilities, Social Bias
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Bierdz, Brad – Power and Education, 2021
This exploration takes a look at how students in higher education are disempowered through regimes of social power that are always already extant and ubiquitous within educational regimes. Moreover, this exploration pays particular interest and attention to students in higher education because in many cases throughout relevant research, these…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Empowerment, Power Structure, Philosophy
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Richards, Kendall; Pilcher, Nick – Power and Education, 2019
In this article, the authors argue that a particular view of language underpins approaches to supporting students in higher education, and that this view facilitates neo-liberalism. Universities worldwide have glossaries of terms such as 'describe' or 'discuss', and centralized units to help students understand what an 'essay' or 'report' is, and…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, College Students, Neoliberalism, Power Structure
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Zinga, Dawn; Styres, Sandra – Power and Education, 2019
Drawing from multiple courses, the authors explore the intersections and connections concerning the various ways students in mainstream programmes experience and express counter-resistances to decolonizing and anti-oppressive pedagogies. The authors focus on how aspects of curriculum can at once minimize, trigger and/or provoke various aspects of…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Indigenous Populations, College Faculty, Social Bias