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Fractal Education Inquiry
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López, Ligia López – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
This paper draws on transnational education inquiry from Guatemala to Australia. Grounded in field research on Indigenous matters, this paper offers fractal education inquiry as a proposition to interrupt the straight and spatialized notions of time that produce developmental, salvific, and progress-centric aspirations from which educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Educational Research, Indigenous Populations
Seven Reasons to Question the Hegemony of Visible Learning
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McKnight, Lucinda; Whitburn, Ben – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
The publication of John Hattie's "Visible Learning: A synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement" in 2009 has led to the widespread adoption of the Visible Learning program around the world. Critique of this program has been less widespread, especially in English, and has tended to centre on the mechanisms of…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Neoliberalism, Professionalism, Politics of Education
Holocaust Memory and Cultural Trauma: Israeli Adolescents' Poetry and Heritage Journeys to Poland
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Gross, Zehavit – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
The objective of this research was to analyse poetry written by Israeli high-school students during or after visiting Poland within the framework of Holocaust education. I describe first the stages of shaping the discourse of Holocaust memory in Israel, and of Holocaust education; the Holocaust's place in the world of young Israelis; and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Poetry, Trauma
Cultural Trauma and the Politics of Access to Higher Education in Syria
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Al Azmeh, Zeina; Dillabough, Joanne; Fimyar, Olena; McLaughlin, Colleen; Abdullateef, Shaher; Aloklah, Wissam Aldien; Mamo, Adnan Rashid; Abdulhafiz, Abdul Hafiz; Al Abdullah, Samir; Al Husien, Yasser; Al Mohamad Al Ibrahim, Ammar; Al Ibrahim, Ziad; Barmu, Taiseer; Farzat, Abdulnasser; Kadan, Bakry – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
This paper examines the relationship between the politics of Higher Education access pertaining to longstanding practices of patrimonial authoritarian politics and the narration of collective trauma. Building on an empirical study of Syrian HE during war, we suggest that a "narrative disjuncture" within HEIs has a damaging impact not…
Descriptors: Trauma, Access to Education, Higher Education, Politics of Education
Key Elements in the Naturalisation of Neoliberal Discourse in Higher Education in Chile
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Simbürger, Elisabeth; Donoso, Alina – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
Neoliberal discourse has undergone substantial changes over the last years, taking a status as if it were a natural given. In this article we analyse the naturalisation of neoliberal discourse in higher education in post-dictatorship Chile. Based on discourse analysis of two Chilean higher education policy reports, we examine the reconfiguration…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Social Change, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Hannah Arendt, Education, and the Question of Totalitarianism
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Spector, Hannah – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2016
The aim of this paper is to consider the ways in which Arendt's writings on totalitarianism act as a warning sign for political and miseducational circumstances in the USA. Because the term totalitarianism has been used imprudently (largely in the mass media) to express repressive conditions in so-called models of democracy, this paper seeks to…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Politics of Education, Social Theories, Academic Freedom
Porto Alegre as a Counter-Hegemonic "Global City": Building Globalization from below in Governance and Education
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Gandin, Luis Armando – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2011
This paper analyzes the case of Porto Alegre, Brazil as a counter-hegemonic global city. Porto Alegre is a city with no particular relevance to neoliberal globalization that, nevertheless, was launched to a global scale by transformations in local governance. New mechanisms of deliberative democracy captured the attention of social actors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Political Attitudes, Economic Development, Educational Policy