NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 11 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
J. Fabian Cabaluz – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2025
The Bolivian Marxist RenĂ© Zavaleta (1937-1984) is considered Bolivia's most notable political thinker of the 20th century, an eminent figure in Latin American Marxism, since he produced critical thought anchored in the concrete history of our societies, and developed a set of theoretical and conceptual approaches relevant to understanding the…
Descriptors: Democracy, Social Systems, Political Attitudes, Critical Theory
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bartley, Sarah – Research in Drama Education, 2021
Brighton People's Theatre and Slung Low are at the forefront of the contemporary people's theatre movement in the United Kingdom. I examine these companies and the broader utility of a people's theatre, historically concerned with working class representation and/or performances of civic unity, in the context of economic austerity and inequality.…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Economic Climate, Working Class, Social Differences
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
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
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ridley, David – Power and Education, 2017
This article approaches the question of how far critical pedagogy can be institutionalised through a series of historical and contemporary examples. Current debates concerned with the co-operative university are examined, as well as histories of independent working-class education and the free university movement. Throughout this history, critical…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Neoliberalism, Universities, Educational History
West, Linden – Trentham Books, 2016
Every day brings news about so-called Islamic State and its seduction of young people in the West. The radicalization of young Muslims causes alarm; even the desirability of multiculturalism is questioned in troubled cities where racism and Islamophobia are on the rise. This book is a case study of one distressed post-industrial city struggling…
Descriptors: Municipalities, Case Studies, Racial Bias, Islam
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Livingstone, D. W. – Journal of Education and Work, 2010
There is substantial evidence that formal educational attainments increasingly exceed the educational job requirements of the employed labour force in many advanced market economies--a phenomenon variously termed "underemployment", "underutilisation", or "overqualification". Conversely, both experiential learning and workplace case studies suggest…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Underemployment, Working Class, Democracy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Mac an Ghaill, Mairtin – Educational Review, 2010
This paper is a response to Professor Chitty's "Educational Review" Guest Lecture article, "Educating for political activity". I address the three sections of his paper: a global and national-based politics of war, corporate manipulation and parliamentary scandals. This provides a basis to draw upon empirical material from a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics, Political Issues, Activism
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bjerkaker, Sturla – Convergence, 2006
The study circle is described as a democratic and emancipatory method for learning that can be summarized in three words: learning by sharing. This method offers opportunities and possibilities for all participants to contribute their previous knowledge and experiences through open and democratic dialogue. As a method for "liberal adult…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Working Class, Adult Education, Extension Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ndimande, Bekisizwe – Perspectives in Education, 2004
This article brings to our attention the intricacies and possibilities of teaching and learning in post-apartheid public schools of South Africa. My argument moves from the premise that if the South African school system is meant to build a democratic nation, then it must reflect the democratic objectives of the nation. Research (e.g. Chisholm,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Working Class, Racial Segregation, Public Schools
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Rodriguez, Miguel Somoza – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2007
From 1952 onwards, following the approval of the "Second Five-year Plan," a series of profound changes took place in the Argentinean national curriculum and in its schoolbooks. Some authors have pointed out that such changes implied the use of the educational system as an "agency for indoctrination." Other authors have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ideology, National Curriculum, Democracy
Talbot, Winthrop – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1916
"Illiterates" are those who have not learned to write in any language. This is the definition on which American and most foreign statistics of illiteracy are based, because the percentage of those who can read but can not write is so small that it may be ignored. The test of writing one's name and ordinary words is simple, easily…
Descriptors: Working Class, Immigrants, Adult Literacy, Illiteracy