This article is an attempt by two educators, one Dalit and one Tribal, to make a case for why education in India needs to be informed by a conception of "the Dalit curriculum." We argue that the Dalit curriculum is an educational theory based on the following foundational assumption: The Dalit reality is the denominator of measuring any…

Over the last 20 years, since the launch of its flagship study the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has become a behemoth of transnational influence on education policy making. To better understand the evolution of the OECD's perspective on education and the…

Human Rights Education exists as an implementing entity of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Scholars such as Andre Keet and others have criticized the dissemination of universal rights through education because it covets Western ideology over local ethical and epistemological constructs. Using Tibbitts' revised typologies of Human Rights…

The need for transformation has led kingdom to envision and encode the Saudi Vision 2030 document; it is not merely an idealistic divination but a manuscript with an appropriate plan to accomplish its anticipated economic and social goals. In fact, planning is a critical factor in the document, which shapes it as a discourse of realization and…

This issue's theme is "shifting paradigms" in family and consumer sciences (FCS) professional practice. This can mean that things in the world are moving around and changing, people are moving from one way of seeing the world to another, or some combination. The question posed for this issue was "What is FCS doing and how is what…

Knowledge here means something similar to but broader than science--it is reliable but not necessarily as systematic or explicit. A cooperative economy is contrasted with the competitive economy that has dominated political thinking almost everywhere for about half a century - the neo-liberal period. It is argued that the neo-liberal ideology and…

This article on peer learning was originally prepared for the Committee of the Institute for the Development of Human Potential (IDHP) in 1985. It outlines the history, structure and ideology of seventeen IDHP courses with their two primary dimensions--confluent and political. A holistic conceptual model is presented for each of these dimensions,…

In this essay, the author discusses schooling in the context of war, privatization, and the general neo-liberal shift in education. Specifically, the author reflects on the experiences of three schools in Medellin, Colombia, that are found in the cross-hairs of an ongoing civil conflict. In contrast to the prevailing ideologies and social…

This article reports key findings from in-depth interviews with undergraduate students returning from international service trips (ISTs). These interviews examined students' perceptions of social change activities and assessed students' affinity toward service and activism independently as well as the perceived relationship and interaction between…

Critical pedagogy has become commonplace in contemporary academe. Despite its prominence, the pedagogy continues to face relentless attacks: some scholars have dismissed the pedagogy as essentialist, populist, and unpatriotic, among other labels. The fact of the matter is that these critiques are driven by ideologically masked epistemologies. By…

This project offers a close look into the meaning-making practices of the Bulgarian socialist state with regard to the conception and enactment of childhood. Held for the first time in 1979, on occasion of the UN declared "International Year of the Child", the International Children's Assembly "Banner of Peace" emerges as a…

Discusses the ideologies that guide modern composition. Represent the teaching goals and (implied) social visions current in the field of composition through five models: utility, individual growth, individual mobility, collaborative growth, and collective empowerment. Critiques the first four models and argues for the fifth. (SR)

Uses a rhetorical analysis of a storytelling process presently ongoing about artificial intelligence to reveal the communication patterns which are used to maintain and shift ideologies. Suggests an extension of Fisher's narrative paradigm of the processes of continuity and change underlying storytelling, via Brown's conception of ideology as…

Examines how "big picture" scenarios of world futures in the new millennium that frame policymakers' views have an impact on language, culture, and education. Some of these scenarios predict homogenization, whereas others foretell conflict. In this changing scenario, the social and political effects of language planning and English as a…

The evolution of cadre (political elite and bureaucratic functionaries) education in China from 1949 to the present was evaluated in terms of leadership development and the underlying interests of the Chinese Communist Party as it integrates more fully into the world economy. Historic achievements include: (1) increased knowledge about market…