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Sánchez Loza, Dinorah – Peabody Journal of Education, 2023
While schools are necessary spaces for democratic education, more analyses are needed that unpack their limits. Drawing from ethnographic research in U.S. Government classrooms in two predominantly White schools in politically conservative communities in central Ohio, findings show that teachers and students idealize a politically neutral…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Political Attitudes, Whites, Civics
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Ryan D. Shaw – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2024
When teachers and school staff work together, it inevitably involves issues of power, influence, diplomacy, and cooperation; this has been termed "micropolitics," and the ability to read situations with micropolitics in mind has been identified as "micropolitical literacy." The purpose of this year-long case study was to…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Music Teachers, Music Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Michael Reisch; Jayshree S. Jani – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2025
Contemporary events, including the recent Presidential campaign, have demonstrated the symbolic and political significance of language in our society and culture. Language is a primary tool for "naming the world" and defining our desires roles - as subjects and ojects - in the environments we inhabit. Yet, as often as language is a means…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Political Attitudes
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Christopher C. Jadallah – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Farms and gardens are increasingly being recognized as dynamic educational settings through which learners can engage in a wide variety of activities and practices to connect with land, food, self, and community. Across these settings, teaching with political clarity represents a pathway for identifying, interrogating, and disrupting systems of…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Gardening, Cultural Background, Political Attitudes
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Zeena Zakharia – Comparative Education Review, 2024
This article offers insights into partnerships that support refugee teachers to adapt and sustain teaching and learning despite multiple compounding obstacles spurred by political and economic crises, disaster, and COVID-19. Drawing from a 3-year study of Syria refugee education in Lebanon (2018-21), I focus on one dimension of partnership that…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Partnerships in Education, Refugees, Faculty Development
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Shatara, Hanadi – Curriculum Inquiry, 2023
This case study of a Palestinian American social studies teacher in a predominantly affluent public school in New York City utilizes the Chicana/Latina feminist theoretical concept of nepantla and the literature on teachers of Color in social studies education. This article addresses how her critical political consciousness, identities, and…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Power Structure, Teaching Methods, Case Studies
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Juan F. Carrillo; Noah Karvelis – Critical Education, 2023
Historically "Red States" in the United States offer an example of the complex intersections of public education, race, conservative politics, language, and power/resistance which teachers live and work amongst. This article considers these intersections by focusing on the experiences and reflections of a former red state teacher and…
Descriptors: Geographic Location, Urban Schools, Political Influences, Teacher Attitudes
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Saada, Najwan – British Educational Research Journal, 2023
This multiple case study examines the attitudes of 14 Islamic education teachers from Israel towards the meaning, causes and consequences of religious extremism among students in their Arab and Muslim-majority middle and high schools. These teachers define religious extremism as belief in absolute religious truth, inflexibility in religious…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Islam, Religious Factors
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Berge, Anita; Johansson, Eva – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2021
The aim of this paper is to advance knowledge about the politics of belonging in Norwegian preschools by exploring how educators describe and consider processes of belonging in their educational practice. In educational research, the dominating focus has been on the sense of belonging and children's emotional bonding to others. Here belonging is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Group Membership
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An Le, Dao Thanh Binh; Hockey, John – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
This paper examines how critical thinking is perceived and transmitted in higher education (HE) classrooms using two Vietnamese undergraduate programmes as case studies. The analysis of semi-structured interviews with teachers, supervisors and institutional leaders from both programmes reveals transmission of critical thinking is impacted upon by…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students
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Ordem, Eser; Ulum, Omer Gokhan – Critical Questions in Education, 2021
Post-method era has been hailed in second language teaching, although a few practitioners have been able to use the tenets of critical pedagogy. Critical pedagogy aims to raise sociopolitical issues to emancipate both teachers and learners from power-centric ideas. The practical use of critical pedagogy has been the participatory approach that…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Tutkal, Serhat – Critical Studies in Education, 2022
This article questions the role of universities in the power/knowledge relation by examining the case of Turkey's 'Academics for Peace.' It is based on six in-depth interviews conducted with dismissed peace petitioners. Facing both the market pressures and the state oppression, the intellectual institutions in many countries are in a precarious…
Descriptors: Power Structure, College Faculty, Peace, Teacher Attitudes
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Mai Abu Moghli – International Journal of Human Rights Education, 2020
This article provides a critical view of Human Rights Education (HRE) within a context of colonial occupation and an authoritarian national ruling structure. It explores the reasons behind the introduction of HRE in Palestinian Authority (PA) schools in the Occupied West Bank and investigates how teachers and students make meaning of and implement…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Teaching Methods, Power Structure, Educational Change
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Themelis, Spyros; Hsu, Tao-Chen – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2021
This article is the first to employ a Freirean framework to discuss the Taiwanese Sunflower Student Movement and its political, pedagogical and social significance. We analyse lecturers' and students' perspectives and experiences of civic responsibility in order to explore the relationship between critical pedagogy and student participation in the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Politics of Education, Power Structure, Social Change
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Dawn H. Currie; Deirdre M. Kelly – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2022
Developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) add urgency to the claim that democracy requires media literate citizens. The purpose of this paper is to support media engagement by youth in a context characterized by the spread of misinformation through the very technologies that promise to democratize public debate. Rejecting…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Media Literacy, Social Justice, Decision Making
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