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Hoang, Ngoc T. H.; Hamid, M. Obaidul – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
As the power of tests lies in their uses, language tests that are used to assess immigration eligibility exercise enormous power. Critical Language Testing calls for exposing the power of tests by examining the intentions of introducing tests and their effects on individuals and society, especially from the perspective of test-takers. This case…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Language Tests, Testing
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Mills, Martin; Keddie, Amanda – Educational Review, 2010
This paper examines the impact of a politics of resentment, neo-liberal policies, and security concerns on issues of gender justice in schools in various western countries. We argue that since the 1990s gender justice in schools has been severely hampered by a politics of resentment, or backlash politics, and the presence of neo-liberal discourses…
Descriptors: National Security, Sex Fairness, Psychological Patterns, Males
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Victoroff, Jeff – Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2005
This article reviews the state of the art of available theories and data regarding the psychology of terrorism. Data and theoretical material were gathered from the world's unclassified literature. Multiple theories and some demographic data have been published, but very few controlled empirical studies have been conducted investigating the…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Psychology, Psychological Patterns, Behavioral Science Research