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 study examines Kazakhstan's multi-party system, analyzing the ideologies of existing parties, political party legislation, and the specifics of political culture in the republic. The authors claim that modern Kazakh political parties lack distinct ideological foundations, as they have not formulated clear ideological positions. The…

This paper explores the extent to which critique in the educational sciences can be mechanized. This is the case when critique of pedagogical concepts and discourses is entirely determined by the structures and processes of the critique itself. If the process of critique functions independently of the specificity and concreteness of its object,…

Focusing on the topical area of the ILA General Principles for Leadership Development Programs, number three, "content," this article aims to expand the conceptualization and meaning of the idea of content and broaden the knowledge of content through a critical perspective. Additionally, the purpose of the article is to offer ideas for…

Curriculum is at the heart of education. It has been said that a broad and balanced physical education curriculum can contribute to young people developing socially, cognitively, affectively, and physically. As such, in this article, we draw on Antonio Gramsci's ideas of culture, power, and ideology to explore the physical education curriculum in…

This essay takes up Edward Said's insistence on truth, justice, and tracing continuities of colonial violence to reflect on the university in a time of genocide. We set the stage with an outline of the university complicities; conditions continuous with, and connected to, the ongoing genocide in Gaza. We establish the legal resonance of…

Rates of school bullying victimisation have been noted as high as 69% for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) yet there remains neither an anti-bullying programme specifically for use in special schools, nor a standardised definition of bullying. The most frequently used definition is not inclusive of SEND pupils'…

Power relations operate in any educational setting, and there may be particular vulnerabilities in a tradition conducted in the relative isolation of the music teaching studio. These vulnerabilities have been highlighted dramatically in recent years through high-profile cases of power abuse, but power is implicated in a wide range of contexts…

The concept of agency has become widely used in education, social sciences, psychology, and more. This article explores the concept of agency and provides a critical review from two main bodies of work: The social cognitive theory and the structure agency theory. The two are not the same. Structure agency theory was used to illuminate agency from…

Leadership development, like other professional areas such as medicine, teaching, and law, requires students to become as adept at practicing leadership as they are at understanding the theory behind it. For example, K-12 teachers have student teaching, medical students have residencies, cadavers, and virtual reality--but where is the learning…

This paper aims to foreground the persistent ethical conundrums within the process of engaging children labeled with intellectual disabilities in the research process. I consider what happens when researchers are embedded within and committed to sustaining relationships with disabled children? I explore the possibilities of the enactment of…

In his 'Towards the Critique of Violence', Walter Benjamin introduces the concept of 'educative violence' as a contemporary manifestation of 'divine violence'. In this paper, we aim to interpret 'educative violence' by examining other instances where the young Benjamin addresses pedagogical issues. By connecting the concept of divine violence to…

The concept of collective identity emphasizes the importance of solidarity, collective strength, and coalition building among social groups in order to establish empowering educational systems, while still critically acknowledging the role that intersectionality, privilege, and power play in society and in students' lives. This brief summarizes…

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…

Background or Context: A third space is characterized by the ongoing poststructural negotiation of being and the ongoing quest for liberation and revolutionary cultural change. Third spaces are possible when two people expressing difference from one another come together in a discursive, in-between space that rejects binarisms and essentialisms.…