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Robin Truth Goodman – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2024
In 2021, the Florida Legislature passed House Bill 233. The bill has three provisions: 1) it mandates an "intellectual viewpoint diversity" survey that asks students, faculty, and other employees at Florida's public colleges and universities to report on their levels of comfort to express their ideological and political opinions; 2) it…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Universities, State Legislation, Academic Freedom
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Tomic, Slobodan; Radeljic, Branislav – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
Scholars have documented a tendency of (semi-)authoritarian regimes to undermine university autonomy, mainly through organizational (de jure) changes. This paper presents a case study of a publicly triggered plagiarism investigation by the University of Belgrade into the doctoral thesis of the Serbian Minister of Finance, one of the key members of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Plagiarism, Investigations, Doctoral Dissertations
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Debbag, Murat; Fidan, Mustafa – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2020
This correlation study investigates the relationships between prospective teachers' multicultural education attitudes and classroom management styles. The participants were 495 prospective teachers majoring in different departments of education faculties at two state universities in Turkey. "Democracy and Multicultural Education Attitude…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Multicultural Education, Student Attitudes, Classroom Techniques
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Giroux, Henry A. – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2019
Henry Giroux begins this discussion by observing that he thinks there is a lot to be learned about what happens to higher education when authoritarians win elections and a liberal democracy morphs into something else. Giroux believes that under the regime of Donald Trump, higher education is under siege, and its stated purpose to produce the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Democracy, Presidents, Politics of Education
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Alt, Dorit; Itzkovich, Yariv – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2019
This study examined the impact of constructivist-based activities in the classroom on students' perception of their teachers' authoritarian-based behaviors measured by their uncivil behaviors. It was postulated that teachers who use nonconstructivist activities in their classrooms might also demonstrate uncivil authoritarian-based behaviors. Data…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Teacher Student Relationship, Authoritarianism, Class Activities
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Da Matta, Gylton; Richards, K. Andrew R.; Hemphill, Michael A. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2015
Background: Teacher education, including physical education teacher education (PETE), around the world remains highly autocratic and content focused [Apple, M. W. 2000. "Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age." New York: Routledge]. Scholars in physical education [O'Sullivan, M., D. Siedentop, and L. F. Locke.…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education, Social Change, Critical Theory
Reid, Seerly – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1950
This selective bibliography of motion pictures on democracy has been prepared by the Office of Education to assist teachers, school administrators, and community leaders in choosing and using visual aids in the teaching of democracy. The motion pictures recommended in this bibliography portray the historical development of democracy and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Instructional Films, Multimedia Materials