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Aselmeyer, Norman – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2022
This article is concerned with the memory of the Uganda Railway in Kenya. Built during the heyday of British imperialism at the end of the nineteenth century, the colonial railway has been a highly contested infrastructure. Drawing on museum exhibitions, public speeches, and publications, the article argues that the main narrative of the railway…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transportation, Power Structure, Whites
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Cosier, Kim – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2021
This article is a revised version of the "Studies in Art Education" invited lecture that was to have taken place at the annual convention of the National Art Education Association in March 2020. Taking into account the challenges of the global pandemic and the possibilities presented by uprisings for racial, climate, and social justice…
Descriptors: Art Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Art Teachers
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De Lissovoy, Noah – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2019
This study starts from contemporary scholarship in decolonial theory as well as from the seventeenth century political thinker Guaman Poma de Ayala, whose critique of colonial society in Peru enacted an epistemological displacement of colonial authority in its own method and perspective. On this theoretical basis, and by means of a contrast with…
Descriptors: History, Power Structure, Critical Theory, Educational History
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Adami, Rebecca – Human Rights Education Review, 2021
Epistemic injustice in human rights education (HRE) can be found in a colonial historical trajectory of human rights that rests on accounts of western agency only. Such narratives overshadow the legacy of Indian and Pakistani freedom fighters and Latin American feminists who negotiated human rights against colonial, patriarchal and racist…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Teaching Methods, Racial Bias, Epistemology
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Harrison, Neil – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2021
Many great cultures of the world have recognised the impossibility of teaching. Governments in various colonial countries continue to spend huge sums of money on 'closing the gap' in Indigenous education, yet national assessment figures would support the claim that teaching is indeed an impossibility. This paper draws on some of Biesta's recent…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Human Body, Indigenous Populations, Self Motivation
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van Rij, Vivien Jean – Waikato Journal of Education, 2022
Arguably New Zealand's best loved picturebook author/illustrator, Gavin Bishop invariably challenges populist power structures in his fiction and non-fiction. As such, his books are ideal vehicles for teaching children about such broad topics as race relations, colonisation, migration, class conflicts, gender relationships, environmental issues…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Picture Books, Childrens Literature, Foreign Countries
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Lo, Tin Yau Joe; Pan, Suyan – Comparative Education, 2021
Recent research has focused either on the internationalisation of China's higher education (HE) as soft power, or on soft power with 'Chinese characteristics'. There is a paucity of research combining these two foci. This paper fills this gap by: (i) unravelling the meanings and features of the 'Chinese characteristics' embodied in the policies of…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Lee, Hong; Kang, Dae Joong; Kim, Seungeun – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2019
Seeing the museum as a public space for adult learning and education is not new, but always requires a contesting perspective when it comes to the continuing socio-political and historical oppression from colonial experiences. This paper explores the process of building a new history museum in South Korea that had suffered from Japanese colonial…
Descriptors: Museums, Adult Learning, Power Structure, Informal Education
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Sin, Ju-back – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2019
The term 'publicness' is a keyword to explain the creation of a people in the history of modern education in Korea in which the relationship between the ruled and the ruling power rapidly changed from the perspective of continuity and discontinuity. In Korea, the term has been commonly used in three different contexts, and its meanings have…
Descriptors: Educational History, Laws, Foreign Countries, Power Structure
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Hakib, Abdul Karim – Research in Drama Education, 2020
This paper proposes a re-examination of the histographies of theatre for development (TfD) which takes into account the background influences, cultures and agendas of complex networks of actors, organizations, governments, and higher education institutions in which the practice and praxis of TfD revolve. The article introduces and reflects on my…
Descriptors: Historiography, Theater Arts, Teaching Methods, Power Structure
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Cooper, Afua – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2017
This essay explores the vulnerability of enslaved African Canadian Black women by examining the death of Diana Bastian, an enslaved Black teenager who in 1792 was raped by George More, a member of the Governing Council of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Though Bastian begged for assistance during the resultant pregnancy, More denied her such aid and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Slavery, Death, Females
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Peral, German Asensio – International Journal of English Studies, 2018
The years of the Second World War (1939-1945), a period known as The Emergency in Ireland, were pivotal for the development of the nation. Immediately after the outburst of the war in the continent, the Fianna Fáil cabinet led by Éamon de Valera declared the state of emergency and adopted a neutrality policy. Brian O'Nolan (1911-1966), better…
Descriptors: War, History, Foreign Policy, Censorship
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Pather, Sulochini – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2019
The move towards Inclusive Education in Africa since Salamanca (1994) has been slow, despite the reduction in enrolment gaps for vulnerable children due to universal primary education in many countries. This article centres on conceptions of Inclusive Education, which have rested primarily on increasing numbers of children with disabilities and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Students with Disabilities, Special Needs Students
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Smith, Avery; Funaki, Hine; MacDonald, Liana – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
Common university spaces are often lauded as inclusive spaces where everyone is welcomed, but is that really the case? Universities in Aotearoa New Zealand receive social, material, and financial benefits from positioning themselves as ethnically and culturally diverse, yet these institutions were established through acts of colonial invasion that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Land Settlement, Ethnic Groups
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Zembylas, Michalinos – Critical Studies in Education, 2021
The main objective of this article is to discuss the affective dimension of resistance in critical pedagogy in a way that would recognize neoliberalism's affective repercussions. The point is not merely to show that affect is involved in the emergence of resistance in critical pedagogy, but rather to expand the articulation of resistance in…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Affective Behavior
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