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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Race and Education
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Paula Groves Price, Editor – Oxford University Press, 2024
"The Oxford Encyclopedia of Race and Education" is designed to provide scholars, students, and educational practitioners access to research, theories, and historical and contemporary reviews of the many complex and nuanced ways race is enacted in education in different nations. Understanding race in education requires multidisciplinary…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Race, Social Influences, Power Structure
A Historical Reflection on the Modern Categorical Being in Chinese Discourses of Rural-Urban Educational Equality
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Dong, Feiran – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2020
In this paper, I made a historical and philosophical reflection on the social scientific categorization of "rural children" (nongcun ertong) in contemporary Chinese discourses of educational equality. The empowerment discourse about them as an educationally marginalized group based on scientific inquiry into their problems reflects a new…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Equal Education, Rural Youth
Power to the People: Education for Social Change in the Philosophies of Paulo Freire and Mozi
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Ho, Yann-Ru; Tseng, Wei-Chieh – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
As Paulo Freire's education theory for social change and emancipation is being continually studied and disseminated in East Asia, it has faced skepticism as some educators are unfamiliar with its critical pedagogy or education for freedom concepts. In light of this, scholars have attempted to compare Freirean philosophies with concepts in Chinese…
Descriptors: Social Change, Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries, Confucianism
Mothering Special Children: Negotiating Gender, Disability, and Special Education in Contemporary China
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Wu, Jinting – Harvard Educational Review, 2020
In this research article, Jinting Wu examines the lived experiences of mothers raising and educating children with disabilities in contemporary China. In the national project of cultivating "quality" citizens, and in the individual pursuit of successful child-rearing, mothers of special children in China are viewed as deficient for…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Rearing, Foreign Countries, Disabilities
Anti-Racist Moral Education: A Review of Approaches, Impact and Theoretical Underpinnings from 2000 to 2015
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Lynch, Ingrid; Swartz, Sharlene; Isaacs, Dane – Journal of Moral Education, 2017
Racism is a moral issue and of concern for moral educators, with recent social movements such as #BlackLivesMatter highlighting how far we are from obliterating racial oppression and the unearned privilege whiteness confers. To contribute to a more formalised approach to anti-racist moral education, this article systematically reviews 15 years of…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Multicultural Education, Moral Development, Literature Reviews
The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education
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Apple, Michael W., Ed.; Au, Wayne, Ed.; Gandin, Luis Armando, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education" is the first authoritative reference work to provide an international analysis of the relationship between power, knowledge, education, and schooling. Rather than focusing solely on questions of how we teach efficiently and effectively, contributors to this volume push further…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, International Education, Political Attitudes, Economic Development