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Douglas Wayne Bridges – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines the discourses surrounding remote learning during the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic through Twitter conversations. Employing a Critical Discourse Analysis informed by Michel Foucault's theories of discourse and power, this study explores how the pandemic has transformed educational interactions over social…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Social Media, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Benzi Slakmon – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2024
In this study, the paradoxes and difficulties of using WhatsApp for meaningful education are highlighted. As a case study of technology implementation, the author employs virtual ethnography and interviews with supervisors, developers and teachers to examine all significant pedagogical initiatives in Israel's high schools that utilise WhatsApp.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Software, Computer Mediated Communication, Teaching Methods
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Burtch, Derek Thomas; Gordon, Amelia – Theory Into Practice, 2021
The violent police response to uprisings in response to the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor unveiled who America is for our students. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic increased the politicization of schools and exacerbated inequality in schools already segregated by class and race. Throughout the 2020-2021 academic year, students…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, COVID-19, Pandemics, Equal Education
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Tesar, Marek; Pupala, Branislav; Kascak, Ondrej; Arndt, Sonja – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2017
This article examines Slovak early years teachers' concerns with conceptions of teacher professionalism. It suggests that there is a mismatch between understandings of professionalism, policy aspirations and the attitudes of teachers to their own professionalism, and that this mismatch fuels early years teachers' sense of agency. These tensions…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Teachers, Professional Identity, Standards
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Postma, Louise – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2018
This paper explores academics' interaction in an online forum, situated on the intranet of a South African university, where perceptions of racism within a larger discourse about transformation are shared and debated. The communicative model of democratic discourse directs the interpretation of an emancipatory discursive interaction, following a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Racial Bias, Power Structure
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Ahmed Sahlane Ed.; Rosalind Pritchard Ed. – English Language Education, 2023
This volume provides an overview of current issues in English as an International Language (EIL) education and critical intercultural literacy pedagogy. The different chapters are inspired by 'critical interculturality' as a decolonial project that seeks to interrogate the structures, conditions, and mechanisms of colonial power relations that…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Literacy Education
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Cowie, Bronwen; Jones, Alister; Harlow, Ann – School Leadership & Management, 2011
Research on the nature of and support for systemic sustainable innovation with ICT is converging with research on policy implementation and studies of school change and improvement to highlight the complex interplay of personal and contextual factors that enable and constrain innovation. In each of these fields, leadership has been found to play a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Participative Decision Making, Educational Change