This paper problematises the activist underpinnings of intercultural education. It draws on the recent 'critical' works that have unravelled how interculturality is anchored in hierarchical relations within knowledge which reseat the Western conceptions of 'intercultural', 'criticality' and 'epistemology' at the front. The premise of this paper is…

Across the nation, schools are experiencing student activism in the form of protests, such as sit-ins and walkouts, in response to local and national events. These types of activities may occur in school buildings, elsewhere on school grounds, or during off-campus school-related activities. School leaders and educators should examine ways to allow…

Science activism is often seen as a threat to scientific credibility. Yet, an increasing number of scientists participate in climate activism and challenge the morality of remaining passive when urgent action is needed. Science activism for climate action (SACA) raises intriguing questions about the source of scientific credibility and the…

The Toronto Disaster Relief Committee (TDRC) was a coalition of housing activists active in the years between 1998 and 2012 (Monsebraaten, 2012; Toronto Disaster Relief Committee, 1998, 2012). Their efforts bore witness to the rise of dehousing (Hulchanski, 2000, 2010), and the associated trauma and deaths of those forced to live without housing.…

Community engagement has become an increasingly prevalent part of dance education. This study responds to the need for additional research on community engagement activities in private sector dance studios in the United States. Using a combined qualitative and quantitative approach, we provide an in-depth look into the current types of community…

During his tenure, Dr. Daniel Black has played a pivotal role in educating and mentoring countless students, fostering their academic and spiritual development. He has intentionally cultivated a tradition of scholar activism in Black Studies, thereby cementing his intellectual legacy. In May of 2024, Black delivered his widely acclaimed…

Despite recent scholarship in political theory that shifts the focus of injustice from agents to social structures, educational justice scholarship in philosophy of education remains primarily individualistic as regards the causes of injustice. However, it seems that agents' actions are more constrained than individualistic accounts suggest and…

Drawing on experiences of university protests calling for decolonised education in South Africa in 2015-17, this paper reflects on the challenges and possibilities for teacher education from a Global South perspective. It outlines theories of de/coloniality which highlight epistemic and ontological asymmetries as well as economic, and it explores…

In this study, we analyze the calls for action in a corpus of tweets with the hashtag #FashionRevolution, related to the 2020 Fashion Revolution week. We offer a linguistic analysis of the discourse of digital activism, relying on insights from pragmatics, discourse analysis, and argumentation. Our analysis focuses on the calls for action…

Mathematics teacher education has increasingly compelled mathematics teacher educators (MTEs) to take up the challenge of preparing prospective teachers to embrace justice-oriented pedagogies. Given the current climate of growing attacks on critical educators, I argue for the need to make visible and organize the ongoing ways MTEs engage in…

This article focuses on political education, a vital but neglected component in histories of education within South Africa's liberation movement in exile during the 1970s and 1980s. The article shows how in conditions of exile the idea of political education as a forward-looking, home-bound form of education was counterposed to a notion of…

Objective: To drive the development and improvement of college student activist support interventions via the examination of the relationship between college student activists' labor and their subjective well-being (SWB). Participants: A purposeful sample of 14 U.S. college student activists. Methods: An interpretive, constructivist qualitative…

This paper argues three related points: that it is necessary to revisit analyses of the decolonial moment at South African universities to identify missed opportunities to deal with students' sense of exclusion and lack or recognition, as well as with the possibility of decolonising the university; that the temporary opening for the recognition of…

Black Lives Matter is a global movement that has gained support from an increasingly diverse racial and ethnic demographic. Universities seek ways to provide an opportunity to increase the quantity and strength of the Black perspective. Using research methods, a fundamental social science course, this paper demonstrates that it is possible to view…

Engaging with current protests for climate justice on university campuses, this paper discusses how matters of concern are shared in the university and how cohabitation on campus itself becomes a public matter. Multiple ecological and political crises shed light on the interdependence between the public and the communal dimension of university.…