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Jamaican Teachers' Perspectives on Their Power and Empowerment at Their Schools
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Thompson, Canute S.; Wilmot, Ann-Marie – Power and Education, 2022
This qualitative study explores the perspectives of nine teachers in leadership positions on the issue of power, specifically the amount of power that they possess and how that level of power impacts their work. Data for the study were gathered using a focus group interview. The study found that most of the teachers have a common understanding of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Leadership, Power Structure
Collaborating Alone? Teachers' and Pedagogues' Unequal Cross-Professional Collaboration and What It Means for Their Professional Learning in Danish Schools
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Dahl, Kari Kragh Blume – Power and Education, 2020
Cross-professional collaboration in schools is a prerequisite for professional teaching practice and thus for professional development in many post-industrialized societies, yet little is known about how teachers with different professional backgrounds make meaning of and internalize cross-professional collaboration and how inequities in…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development, Situated Learning, Learning Theories
The Banality of Education Policy: Discipline as Extensive Evil in the Neoliberal Era
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Clarke, Matthew; Haines Lyon, Charlotte; Walker, Emma; Walz, Linda; Collet-Sabé, Jordi; Pritchard, Kate – Power and Education, 2021
Education is usually considered a force for good, associated with hope and optimism about better individual and social futures. Yet a case can be made that education and education policy in recent decades, far from being a force for good, has had nefarious effects at multiple levels. This can be seen in the growing alienation of significant…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Neoliberalism, Educational Policy, Futures (of Society)
Did Gove Read Bernstein? On Revisiting 'Education Cannot Compensate for Society'
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Nightingale, Paul – Power and Education, 2019
Education researchers continue to cite Bernstein's 'Education cannot compensate for society', while Bernstein's own focus on 'in-school processes' was echoed by Michael Gove's insistence that there are 'no excuses' for low working-class achievement in schools. Bernstein's ideas illuminate the relationship, within education policy, of…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Democracy, Power Structure, Foreign Countries
Authoritarianism, Education and the Limits of Political Socialisation in Egypt
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Mirshak, Nadim – Power and Education, 2020
President al-Sisi has declared 2019 to be the 'Year of Education', whereby a National Project is to be launched to reform the education system. These proposed reforms are crucial, yet the politics driving them and their implications for al-Sisi's regime remain unclear. Discussions surrounding how education is political and can help protect…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Teaching Methods, Social Systems, Educational Change
Too Much Parental Cooperation? Parent-Teacher Cooperation and How It Influences Professional Responsibility among Danish Schoolteachers
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Dahl, Kari Kragh Blume – Power and Education, 2017
Parental participation is a fundamental principle of the Danish "folkeskole" (for children aged 6-16), yet this article explores how too much parental cooperation influences the relationship of teachers to their professional responsibility. The majority of research on parent-teacher cooperation has focused on parents' opportunities to…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Cooperation, Teacher Responsibility, Parent Influence, Professionalism