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Nardo, Aline – Educational Theory, 2021
Despite his popularity in educational discourses, Lev S. Vygotsky tends to be read mainly as an educational psychologist or learning theorist. His potential contribution to a theory of education remains largely undiscussed. The Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) is often misunderstood as a sort of "educational tool," which severely…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Sociocultural Patterns, Educational Psychology, Psychologists
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Kaukko, Mervi; Kemmis, Stephen; Heikkinen, Hannu L. T.; Kiilakoski, Tomi; Haswell, Nick – Environmental Education Research, 2021
The ongoing ecological crisis and the more recent Coronavirus crisis challenge the grand narrative of Enlightenment that human beings are 'masters of nature'. For millennia, human "social learning" has allowed "Homo sapiens" to outpace most of our competitor creatures and live a comfortable life, but this competitive success…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Ecology, Sustainability
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Krejsler, John Benedicto – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
The article explores the potential of theory in expanding how we can think about a globalization that can encompass the affirmation of diversity. This happens at a critical time, when policy areas, including education, are constrained by a global mode of neoliberal predatory capitalism that is in turn confronted by a return to national(ist)…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Educational Theories, Social Systems, Neoliberalism
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Mayorga, Edwin – Teachers College Record, 2021
Background/Context: Over the last 60 years, U.S. Latinxs have become the largest minoritized ethnic groups in the United States and U.S. schools, and despite progress and investments attained through activism in the streets, in the courtroom, in policy, and in research, schools chronically underserve Latinx youth, and they are as undereducated and…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Neighborhoods, Politics of Education, Action Research
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Reveley, James – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2018
Running like a leitmotif through Peter Roberts' recently published philosophico-educational writings there is a humanistic thread, which this article picks out. In order to ascertain the quality of this humanism, Roberts is positioned in relation to a pair of extant humanisms: radical and integral. Points of comparability and contrast are…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Humanism, Social Systems, Neoliberalism
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Marjanovic-Shane, Ana – Dialogic Pedagogy, 2018
From the mid 1950s through roughly the 1980s, some or many children and youth of the Socialist Yugoslavia, especially those of us in Belgrade, the capital, lived in a curious, almost surreal "window" in the space and time. This surreal window of space-time, offered to children and youth of Yugoslavia, unprecedented opportunities for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Systems, Children, Experience
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Imad Jaraisy; Ayman Agbaria – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2024
This article examines the involvement of political parties in education, focusing on these parties' youth movements. Specifically, the article examines the youth movement of The Young Communist League of Israel (Banki) and analyzes its educational goals and strategies in the context of the Arab Palestinian minority in Israel. In doing so, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Politics of Education, Government Role
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Tijmen Weber; Christof van Mol; Maarten H. J. Wolbers – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2024
This paper focuses on international student mobility and the funding of higher education. We theorize that relying on international students for funding is stronger for institutions in developed English-speaking countries because they more often adopt marketization practices. Compared to Northern and Southern European countries, we find that they…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Foreign Students, Income, Study Abroad
Bretton A. Varga, Editor; Erin C. Adams, Editor – Teachers College Press, 2024
Theory holds the capacity to help educators see the world differently, challenge problematic assumptions and practices that cultivate harm, and illuminate pathways toward access, equity, justice, joy, and love. While it is easy to underestimate the role of theory in such pursuits throughout social studies education, this book shows that theory is…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Educational Theories, Story Telling
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Olha Misechko; Tamara Lytniova – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
The present article is a result of historical investigation into the cultural aspects of English language education in secondary schools of Ukraine in the 1930s-1980s, when Ukraine was one of the republics of the former Soviet Union. The course books, the school curricula and the articles published in scientific journals during this period built…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Lee, Dong Bae; Wang, Qunyi – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2023
This study applies CDA and story grammar analysis to investigate how Chinese language textbooks for primary schools foster Chinese national identity through their depiction of Chinese people struggling against foreign invaders. The analysis was conducted on 12 textbooks and the findings were based on stories featuring a range of ages, from…
Descriptors: Grammar, Chinese, Self Concept, Nationalism
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Yilmaz, Eda – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
The present paper aims to highlight the structural problems of the Turkish higher education system by focusing on the problems associated with cost and quality of and access to higher education. These problems manifest themselves in the form of massification, the explosion in the number of public universities without resources and even students,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Problems, Neoliberalism, Educational Quality
Labaree, David F. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2023
Public schooling in the 19th century cultivated in students a shared sense of identity as citizens with a common culture. However, posits David Labaree, U.S. schools are less effective than they used to be at serving this purpose, making their value to the nation-state open to questioning. Labaree considers three common functions that public…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Citizenship Education, Educational History, United States History
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Lundin, Hans; Geschwind, Lars – European Journal of Higher Education, 2023
This article sheds light on some challenges that internationalisation raises for policymakers regarding public funding of higher education in a welfare state by examining policy logics for introducing tuition fees for international students in Sweden 2011. Using thematic analysis of documents related to the Swedish reform, we identify how an…
Descriptors: Tuition, Fees, Educational Policy, Social Systems
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Zhang, Xiyuan; Yodpet, Worapot; Reindl, Stefan; Tian, Hongjun; Gou, Minghan; Li, Zongchen; Lin, Siyu; Song, Ruijie; Wang, Wenjing; Jandric, Petar; Jackson, Liz – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2023
This paper is a complete student-led, student-edited collective writing project (CWP) conducted virtually in Spring 2022 throughout the course Knowledge Socialism taught by professor Michael Peters for the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal university. The CWP involves 4 international, 5 domestic Ph.D. students, and 2 senior Western scholars as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Creativity, Social Systems, Universities
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