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Tajrobehkar, Bahar – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2023
This study examines the social experiences of Iranian female immigrants in schools in Toronto, Canada. Drawing on postcolonial theory and critical whiteness studies, I interrogate the ways in which 'Oriental' subjects are Othered among their peers, and how whiteness is established as the invisible norm. This study observes the role that having an…
Descriptors: Females, Immigrants, Postcolonialism, Whites
Gong, Yang; Thapa, Chura Bahadur; Gao, Xuesong – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
This paper reports on an inquiry that explored how a group of Nepali secondary school students discursively reconstructed and interpreted their English learning in Hong Kong. In the study we collected data from 30 participants through participatory observation, in-depth unstructured interview and taking field notes in two secondary schools. The…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Sondari, Parawati Siti – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
To address a student-teacher educator perspective in the engagement of critical pedagogy (CP), I employed a critical and analytical autoethnography to self-investigate my lived experiences during coursework in a doctoral program in the United States. Framed in postcolonial CP in border-crossing notion, I engaged in critical and analytical…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Teacher Educators, Doctoral Programs, Postcolonialism
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Ali, Zahra – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2021
One of the consequences of globalisation in recent years has been the unprecedented spread of English as the world's lingua franca. This has particular resonance in postcolonial countries, such as Pakistan and Australia, whose histories have been strongly shaped by English colonisers in contrasting ways. Written from the perspective of someone who…
Descriptors: Postcolonialism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Risager, Karen – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
What images of the world do we find in language textbooks? What countries and continents are favoured, what key problems of the world are mentioned and taken up, what segments of the world's populations are represented and how, what role is given to the understanding of world history, colonialism and imperialism, what role is given to the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Textbooks, World History
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Parangan, Betsy Pearl Paclibar; Buslon, Junette Berenguer – TESOL International Journal, 2020
Gender and Ethnicity are essential constructs considered to be interwoven with each other. They are imperative considerations in the study of language learning. However, there remain a dearth of investigations on language proficiency that have accounted both gender and ethnicity, specifically among post-colonial Filipino ESL learners. Against this…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Gender Differences, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)
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Tsao, Jack; Hardy, Ian; Lingard, Bob – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
This article provides a critical sociological examination of how Hong Kong youth's relationship towards Chinese identity and China is negotiated vis-a-vis schooling, language policy, and the broader Hong Kong postcolonial condition, and how this mediates these students' aspirational imaginations regarding possibilities of studying and working in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Social Change, Language Planning
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Matthews, Julie – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2021
Refugees are seldom admired or applauded for their resolve and resilience, and their post and pre-migration experience rarely serves as the basis for the development of educational practice or policy solutions. Using a postcolonial theoretical framework this paper argues that while the maligned mobility and disparaged figure of the 'refugee'…
Descriptors: Refugees, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Postcolonialism
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Lee, Daphnee Hui Lin – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023
Singapore's higher education history had students involved in anti-colonial movements. This study examines how historical discourses on state efforts to manage university student movements (1953-1980) unintentionally reproduce in the intercultural business practices of today's professionals. It explores how professional accounts of intercultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering Education, Higher Education, Educational History
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Kieran, P.; Mc Donagh, J. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2021
In Ireland primary RE is a fractured, contested, complex and changing territory devoid of a common language and characterised by a proliferation of syllabi and curricula generated for increasingly diverse school types. For centuries the dynamic decolonising process has led to a questioning of former orthodoxies and an attempted de-linking of the…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Course Descriptions, Postcolonialism, Critical Theory
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Maseko, Patricia – Perspectives in Education, 2018
The possibility of individual (istic) identity formation is explored within a context of a synergistic and communal support system. Within this context, the intrinsic complexities of the African child who enters the academia with a multiplicity of epistemic identity contestations are simultaneously explored. The ensuing alienation resulting from…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Self Concept, Postcolonialism, Blacks