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Parton, Chea; Kuehl, Rachelle – Journal of Literacy Research, 2023
Using critical theories of dominant-and counter-narratives, this study analyzed the texts of selected young adult books that focused on an underrepresented population of working-class rural youth in Appalachia. We explored how the dominant deficit narratives of these communities shaped the identity construction and choices of the books'…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Adolescent Literature, Personal Narratives, Social Differences
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Ben Johnson; Steve Dixon; Andrew Edgar – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
With neoliberal policy central to the many challenges faced within the education system including an increasing gap between rich and poor (Reay, 2017; Giroux, 2014), this article explores how an Education Studies programme, drawing on the principles of critical pedagogy, can help students to better understand and interrogate neoliberalism and its…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Education Programs, Neoliberalism, Critical Theory
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Sadi, Merav Nakar; Ergas, Oren – Critical Studies in Education, 2023
The past 50 years have witnessed a growing presence of critical theory within different social science academic departments across the western world. The joint existence of a theory committed to exposing and criticizing various inequalities of the social order within academic institutions based on traditional hierarchies and prestigious…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, First Generation College Students, Social Sciences, Departments
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Sosa, Teresa – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2022
Focusing on moments in the English classroom imbued with affective forces that produce racial differentiation is central to the support of classrooms addressing race and racism. This work focuses on an event in an English classroom where race was constructed in ways that disrupted not only silence but habitual ways of social differentiation.…
Descriptors: Race, Racial Bias, Racial Attitudes, Social Differences
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Darvin, Ron – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2015
This article discusses how drama as a multimodal performance can be a powerful means to represent marginalized identities and to stimulate critical thought among teachers and learners about material conditions of existence and social inequalities.
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Disadvantaged, Self Concept, Social Differences
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Bohonos, Jeremy W. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2019
While the human resource development (HRD) literature has made strides to incorporate critical race theory, critical Whiteness studies has not been substantively addressed. White experiences need to be incorporated into organizational learning literature in racialized ways. Unpacking the racialized experiences of Whites in organizational settings…
Descriptors: Whites, Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Guidelines
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Ahmed, Anwar; Morgan, Brian – Language Learning Journal, 2021
Postmemory, the narrativised intergenerational transfer of often traumatic experiences, is a crucial component of multilingual identity negotiation. In this article, we focus specifically on the curricular interactions and personal and collective aspirations of multilingual students who use English for academic purposes. We situate our discussions…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Formosinho, Maria; Jesus, Paulo; Reis, Carlos – Critical Studies in Education, 2019
Language is the main resource for meaningful action, including the very formation of selves and psychosocial identities, shaped by practical norms, beliefs, and values. Thus, language education constitutes one of the most powerful means for both social reproduction and social production and ideological maintenance and utopian innovation. In this…
Descriptors: Language Role, Self Concept, Monolingualism, Multilingualism
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Jaime-Diaz, Jesus; Méndez-Negrete, Josie – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2020
This article explores the ways in which high school teachers understand their students in relation to their own racialized social class backgrounds. It problematizes ethnic outsider inabilities to engage teaching philosophies and practices, which render teachers unable to create constructive dialogues with students that have been marginalized in…
Descriptors: Social Class, Altruism, High School Teachers, Case Studies
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Zajda, Joseph, Ed.; Majhanovich, Suzanne, Ed. – Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, 2021
This book critiques dominant discourses and debates pertaining to cultural identity, set against the current backdrop of growing social stratification and unequal access to quality education. It addresses current discourses concerning globalisation, ideologies and the state, as well as approaches to constructing national, ethnic and religious…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Global Approach, Nationalism, Ideology
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Kenny, Maureen E.; Blustein, David L.; Liang, Belle; Klein, Timothy; Etchie, Quinn – Journal of Career Development, 2019
New models of career education are needed to prepare young people for changes and challenges in the world of work. We propose that the psychology of working framework/theory (PWF/PWT) has the potential to shape career education in transformative ways that are attentive to shifting dimensions of the local context and the marginalization of large…
Descriptors: Career Education, Transformative Learning, Disadvantaged, Intervention
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Lee, K. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2018
Integrating computer-mediated intercultural communication (CMIC) activities into language curricula has been discussed as an innovative approach. Despite the increasing number of successful examples reporting positive outcomes of adopting CMIC activities in language-learning environments, it has also been noted that there are significant…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Intercultural Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Zotzmann, Karin; Hernández-Zamora, Gregorio – Language Learning Journal, 2013
Since the 1980s the field of language teaching and learning has emphasised the interplay between language, culture and identity and promotes both communicative and intercultural competencies. This mirrors a general trend in the social sciences after the so-called "cultural turn" which brought about a concentration on culture, identity…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Correlation
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Fluri, Jennifer L.; Trauger, Amy – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2011
In response to recent articles and ideas for experiential learning activities in human geography, this paper outlines a particular approach to learning about the body, difference, mobility and geographic space through experience. The Corporeal Marker Project designed and implemented by the authors provides a spatial experience of difference for…
Descriptors: Human Geography, Experiential Learning, Teaching Methods, Human Body