Purpose: Gentrification continues to transform the culture and context of urban schools and neighborhoods across the United States. Educators (i.e., school administrators, teachers, and staff) can play pivotal roles in producing or constraining school gentrification. In this article, I use micropolitical perspectives on education to examine the…

This study examines teachers' emotions within minority primary schools. While previous research on teachers' emotions frames them as narratively constructed and shaped by ideological forces, it often overlooks the unique impact of minority school contexts. The role of power and status dynamics in shaping teachers' emotions within such educational…

We present a study that documented the participation of two high school Arab students in Israel in an extended (2-year) authentic physics inquiry that took place in a regional program located in a Hebrew-speaking kibbutz high school. The students' first language is Arabic, but they are fluent in Hebrew, and their inquiry was mentored by a…

As the world experiences drastic revolutions in technology usage, hyperconnectivity, and extreme political orientations, critical reflexivity in teacher education appears more crucial than ever. Particularly, it is extremely relevant to explore the ways in which teacher educators' individual identities intertwine with collective identities where…

In a socio-political moment marked by attacks on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice, the preparation of middle level teacher learners to engage in social justice advocacy (SJA) within their spheres of influence is imperative. In this article, I share a Social Justice Action Project I use to support teacher learners in engaging in SJA within…

Courses: Intercultural Communication, Interracial Communication, Gender Communication, Interpersonal Communication. Objectives: Students will: (1) identify how positionalities shape perception; and (2) practice reflexive writing to understand and analyze experiences related to privilege and oppression.

Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) relies on the pedagogy of guided reinvention, in which opportunities for learning are created through the teacher's orchestration of whole-class mathematical discussion towards a specific goal. However, introducing an RME approach to students who are accustomed to traditional teaching requires a substantial…

This exploration takes a look at how students in higher education are disempowered through regimes of social power that are always already extant and ubiquitous within educational regimes. Moreover, this exploration pays particular interest and attention to students in higher education because in many cases throughout relevant research, these…

Using the Olweus' (1993, 2013) model of bullying as a framework, hazing and bullying were compared along the dimensions of aggression, intent to cause harm or distress, power imbalance, and repetition. The relationship of the two behaviors to moral disengagement was also examined. One hundred ninety-nine workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk…

The field of language policy and planning (LPP) has increasingly expanded its focus beyond legislative measures and macro-level policies toward understanding the power of social actors and their interpretation, appropriation, and creation of language policies in societies. This article aims to advance LPP theory and research by offering a critical…

Our work seeks to reflexively make visible the blurring of binary markers at the intersection of our research, sexuality, gender, and professional socialization as a necessary disruption to liberate our intersectional possibilities in the making. We argue the queering of educational leadership is met by the intimate and layered experiences of…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine an essential component of enacting an improvement network: facilitation. In it, the author surfaces "synthesizing" as a core, power-laden facilitation practice that brought together network members from disparate institutions to converge on a shared network aim and theory of improvement.…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze the views of educators regarding the constructs of the history curriculum to determine whether history education is usually used for polarization and negative identity enactment or for positive purposes such as tolerance, peace and social justice. Design/methodology/approach: This study used a…

As we tentatively emerge from the imposed isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic and as the status quo reasserts itself, it seems timely to consider the current state of teacher professionalism. This task seems critical, given the wider backdrop of the neoliberal policy pandemic that has driven the commodification and instrumentalization of education…

Since a critical turn was embarked on two decades ago, research into sports coaching has increased in quality and quantity [see Jones, R. L. (2019). "Studies in sports coaching." Cambridge Scholars Publishing]. Despite such welcome advances, the essence or heart of the activity remains contested terrain [Abraham, A., & Collins, D.…