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Jan Frode Haugseth – Educational Theory, 2025
In this article, Jan Frode Haugseth discusses a multidimensional model of educational engagement by outlining Laurent Thévenot's regimes of engagement in an educational setting. Haugseth argues that six intertwined regimes of educational engagement could be perceived to exist in tension with each other: formality, justice, familiarity,…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Learner Engagement, Power Structure, Models
Do the Unexpected! Why Deweyan Educators Should Be Pluralists about Political Tactics and Strategies
Joshua Forstenzer – Educational Theory, 2025
How should Deweyan educators teach their students about engaging in efforts to bring about social change in a political context marked by polarization, power differentials, and oppression? In this article, Joshua Forstenzer argues that Deweyan educators must encourage their students to engage in pluralistic and creative experiments rather than…
Descriptors: Progressive Education, Teaching Methods, Social Change, Power Structure
Antti Saari; Bernadette M. Baker – Educational Theory, 2025
In contemporary contexts of digitalization, proliferating media, and generative AI, various "life hacks" are regularly recommended to disconnect and resist distraction, ranging from meditation to getting back to nature to unplugging. This paper traces contemporary concerns over "the attention crisis" into a longer signature --…
Descriptors: Attention, Psychological Patterns, Christianity, Religious Factors
Martin, Christopher – Educational Theory, 2023
The concept of indoctrination is typically used to characterize the actions of individual educators. However, it has become increasingly common for citizens to raise concerns about the indoctrinatory effects of institutions such as schools and universities. Are such worries fundamentally misconceived, or might some state of affairs obtain under…
Descriptors: Ideology, Beliefs, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools
Iantosca, Tony – Educational Theory, 2023
In this paper, Tony Iantosca situates the academic integrity policies of US colleges and universities, as well as student plagiarism, in biopolitical frameworks. By examining the aporias that result from student plagiarism in the context of neoliberal knowledge production, which produces and depends upon individualized, skills-bearing students,…
Descriptors: School Policy, Plagiarism, Neoliberalism, Student Behavior
derria byrd – Educational Theory, 2025
In this article, derria byrd contends that more robust interrogation of the organizational contribution to inequity in higher education would be aided by understanding higher education organizations as social actors. Organizational social actor theory demonstrates that colleges and universities are more than inert contexts in which marginalized…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Higher Education, Educational Practices, Role of Education
Shiying Li – Educational Theory, 2024
Philosophical work on self-respect has distinguished between various kinds of self-respect. In this paper, Shiying Li begins by introducing important kinds of self-respect and exploring the conceptual and empirical relations among them. She then discusses the value and political significance of social bases of self-respect for both individuals and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Attitudes, Social Influences, Power Structure
Greenhalgh-Spencer, Heather – Educational Theory, 2022
In this article, Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer argues that deep listening is the foundational component of bridge-building; that it is deep listening that foments the trust and desire for action that undergirds our building of bridges. While "listening" is not a new topic, Greenhalgh-Spencer adds to the literature by expanding on what are…
Descriptors: Listening, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Ethics
Vanderbilt, Sandra – Educational Theory, 2022
In this essay Sandra Vanderbilt explores philosophies of peace and protest through a dialectical reading of the works of Martin Luther King Jr., Daisaku Ikeda, and Paulo Freire, and considers these philosophies in relation to her own activism, specifically in the context of dealing with White postracial myths and more overt acts of racism. This…
Descriptors: Racism, Discourse Analysis, Whites, Misconceptions
Gereluk, Dianne – Educational Theory, 2023
Schools are increasingly being asked to identify and monitor youth who may be susceptible to recruitment toward radical groups. Rather than asking teachers to identify at-risk behaviors, Dianne Gereluk argues here that a whole-school approach may help to foster belonging and connection among youth that is not additive, but a central component of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Prevention, At Risk Persons, School Role
Wheeler-Bell, Quentin – Educational Theory, 2022
In "Market Movements," Tom Pedroni argues that educational progressives often analyze neoliberal school choice policies by highlighting the negative impact such policies have upon Blacks. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that all Blacks should oppose neoliberalism. This assumption prevents scholars from investigating why…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Blacks, African Americans, Power Structure

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