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The Geographies of Collective Identity in the Chilean Student Movement
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Hernandez, Ivette – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
This article is about collective identity, learning processes and political agency in the Chilean student movement. The geographies of collective identity are constituted through engaging with emotions interwoven with the political learning process by making mistakes that enabled student activists' agency to undergo transformation between 2006 and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Activism, Self Concept
Teaching and the Transformative Promise of Public Education: What Went Wrong? Have We Lost Our Way? A Perspective from Two Government School Teachers
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Gupta, Snehlata; Ahmad, Firoz – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2016
The discourse around public education in recent times presents an abysmal picture of failing public schools delivering low levels of learning. The key constituent held responsible for this failure is the permanent teacher of government schools who is supposedly taking undue advantage of "high salaries" paid according to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Transformative Learning, Public Schools
Standardization and Subjection: An Autonomist Critique of Neoliberal School Reform
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Slater, Graham B.; Griggs, C. Bradford – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2015
Education under neoliberal reform has been targeted as an indispensable source of profit. Market-based reforms have commodified education and are transforming public school into a corporatized industry concerned not with democracy but with the smooth functioning of the capitalist economy. Targeting public schooling as a site in which to accumulate…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Criticism, Public Education
The CORE Districts and Deeper Learning
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Ruiz de Velasco, Jorge – John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, 2015
The learning demands of college, career, and civic readiness imply that all young people in public schools must have access to deeper learning opportunities that will prepare them to master rigorous academic content, think critically, work collaboratively, and learn to apply classroom learning to real-world contexts. As well, districts are being…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Change, Career Readiness, College Readiness
SEEDs of Promise: Transformative Learning Communities for Diverse Schools
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Hicks, Mark; Smith, Debra R.; Winton, Sherrie; Wood, Diane R. – Multicultural Perspectives, 2008
Rhetoric about "all children" abounds in public education, yet many aspects of schooling continues to marginalize large numbers of students. Despite good intentions, the assumptions, attitudes, and conditions that can preclude students' success are often invisible to educational policymakers and practitioners. These students are not…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Educational Change, Public Education, Faculty Development
Reflecting Today, Creating Tomorrow: The Dual Role of Public Education
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Young, Jon – Education Canada, 2004
Schools are the place where the interests of the child and the family join those of the state, and where past, present and future converge. As such, public education is not only responsible for the advancement of socialization but also of transformation. In this article, the author discusses the dual role of public education. As an instrument of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Socialization, Educational Change