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Kim, Wonseok – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2019
This paper presents an analysis of the ways in which the concept of educational neutrality is used in South Korea. It focuses in particular on the discursive use of educational neutrality. Drawing on selected editorials published by the Donga-Ilbo, I explore complex interlinkages between linguistic and socio-political elements that constitute the…
Descriptors: Democracy, Foreign Countries, Democratic Values, Discourse Analysis
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Karagrigoriou, Efstratia – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2018
Globalization and neoliberal practices have influenced leadership in education in various ways, including through curricula. One of the most vital sections in curricula is citizenship education. Supranational and international organizations, as well as governments, have advanced interest in elementary school, particularly kindergarten, curricula.…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Neoliberalism, Citizenship Education, Democracy
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McKnight, John Carter – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2012
Early utopian notions of Internet-based community as enabling transcendence of earthly governments and cultural divides manifested in the massively multiplayer online nongame platform, Second Life. However, while platform users nearly unanimously chose governance regimes based on professional management rather than democratic self-governance, one…
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Simulation, Computer Mediated Communication, Conflict
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Wakeham, Pauline – American Indian Quarterly, 2012
If recent years have witnessed the rise of a worldwide phenomenon of reconciliation and apology, so also in the past few decades, and with increasing force since September 11, 2001, the global forum has seen the increased mediatization of spectacles of terror. The present moment is thus characterized by two seemingly contradictory rubrics: the…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Racial Discrimination, Foreign Countries, Democracy
McMahon, Brenda J., Ed.; Portelli, John P., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2012
The focus of this book extends the discourse on student engagement beyond prescriptive definitions and includes substantive ethical and political issues relating to this concept. As such, this collection includes voices of educational theorists, practitioners, and students. It provides a counter discourse to the current dialogue on student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learner Engagement, Urban Schools, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
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Chimombo, Moira – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1999
Surveys the interrelationship between language and politics. Touches on the context of political discourse, or political culture and ideology in new and old democracies and the reemerging manifestations of totalitarianism, censorship, and linguistic imperialism; then examines selected linguistic features of political discourse and their…
Descriptors: Democracy, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Ideology
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McBrien, J. Lynn – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2005
Much has been written about the power of media to influence the public through instruments of advertising and a variety of venues (Considine & Haley, 1999; Cortes, 2000; Kilbourne, 1999). In this chapter, the author has chosen to use a singular media focus--news--to support the critical importance of teaching media literacy skills to students. She…
Descriptors: Muslims, Democracy, Critical Thinking, Media Literacy