States' increasing involvement in educational policy making can play a significant role in how school districts provide equitable educational opportunities. Guided by critical policy analysis, the purpose of this article is to examine state-level policy pertaining to English learners (ELs) from district-level perspectives. Based on interview and…

On April 3, 2019, the U.S. Department of Education completed the first part of its months-long effort to deregulate higher education in the name of "innovation." The process was as wonky, arcane, and convoluted as anything in the halls of the federal government. But the result set in motion would be a momentous change for taxpayers and…

This essay, a speculative work, suggests that educational encounters of critical theory and pedagogy are today too often hampered by an emerging form of schooled reproduction in which university learners perform critical stances in order to garner recognition rather than for reasons of intellectual or political commitment. It suggests that the…

María Teresa Flórez Petour is an assistant professor and head of research in the Pedagogical Studies Department of the University of Chile. She also coordinates the Department's Assessment Study Group, and is a research associate at the Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment. Her research interests are related to assessment policy in…

Many existing methods of statistical inference and analysis rely heavily on the assumption that the data are normally distributed. However, the normality assumption is not fulfilled when dealing with data which does not contain negative values or are otherwise skewed--a common occurrence in diverse disciplines such as finance, economics, political…

Michael Thier proposes that in a world beset by the opportunities and challenges of globalization, Global Citizenship Education (GCE) can instill the knowledge, skills, behaviors, and dispositions to live, learn, and work. In one of many global citizenship conceptualizations, Oxley and Morris (2013) present four cosmopolitan dimensions--political,…

This article takes up Arendt's "aporetic" framing of human rights as well as Rancière's critique and suggests that reading them together may offer a way to re-envision human rights and human rights education (HRE)--not only because they make visible the perplexities of human rights, but also in that they call for an agonistic…

Introduction: Given that people rely heavily on their party affiliation to make their political decisions, an interesting dilemma occurs when people are exposed to counter-attitudinal information from the party they identify with. This paper examines how exposure to counter-attitudinal messages from the party an individual identifies with…

Although much has been written about the process of party system institutionalization in different regions, the reasons why some party systems institutionalize while others do not still remain a mystery. Seeking to fill this lacuna in the literature, and using a mixed-methods research approach, this article constitutes a first attempt to answer…

This article begins with a description of Salvador Dali's 1931 work "The Persistence of Memory" which is said to have been painted following a hallucinatory episode. The painting is likened to an assault on rationality, and the author explains the similarities of the past 40 years of teacher education to the surrealism movement in art.…

2016 marks the centenary of "Democracy and Education", in which Dewey argued for the mutually dependent relationship linking a legitimate education system and a thriving democracy. A century later, it seems, democracy and education have been decoupled, with both undermined by developments such as growing inequality, declining…

This article explores how new materialism can help conceive of art education practice as research. The discussion is organized in three parts. First, the authors examine how a practicing artist talks about materials as an aspect of creative artmaking experiences. The second section introducees new materialist concepts for thinking about the power…

This article draws from Nel Noddings' ethics of care as a basis for analysing the political effects of the burgeoning Social Investment approach to governance in Aotearoa New Zealand. To assess the effects of the Social Investment paradigm of governance in relation to early childhood care and education, this article commences with an historical…

There is widespread skepticism about civic competence. Some question if citizens are informed enough to make considered decisions. Others doubt citizens' ability to rationally evaluate relevant evidence and update their opinions even when they have necessary information. The purpose of my dissertation is to critically evaluate this literature and…

The primary objective of this inquiry is threefold: to a) forward a theoretical examination of the influence of a particular era of regional history in a way that b) simultaneously brings the past forward and the present backwards in order to c) exhume the nature of the interconnectedness of past and present in the shaping of identity, politics,…