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Dan Mamlok – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2024
In June 2019, Québec passed Bill 21, entitled: 'An Act respecting the laicity of the State'. This bill bans public servants from wearing religious symbols in the workplace. Among the affected employees are judges, teachers, and government officers. This paper considers the ethical ramifications of Bill 21 on education. Particularly, this paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Laws, Religious Discrimination, Work Environment
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Lee Iskander; Harper Keenan; Mollie McQuillan; Mario Suarez; Bishop Owis; Christina Cook; Daniel Gallardo – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2025
This article explores how trans school employees redeploy, trouble, challenge, and refuse prevalent discourses about transness and education. Drawing from interviews with 100 school workers in Canada and the United States, we employ Coleman's (2023) concept of 'narrative repair' to consider participants' responses to an interview question asking…
Descriptors: Transgender People, Resilience (Psychology), Barriers, Social Bias
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Hunter, Judy – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2007
In the 21st century concerns about workplace language and literacy skills, particularly in the service and manufacturing sectors, continue to drive education and testing policy in many OECD countries. Employers tend to adopt deficit assumptions about service workers' skills, conflating social identities and language and literacy, which can blind…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Literacy, Teaching Methods, Bias