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Bilon, Anna Dorota – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2021
This article develops an agentic approach to activist learning and analyzes the interplay between agency and learning. The agentic approach derives from Alheit's concept of biographical learning and Emirbayer and Mische's concept of agency. The article builds on the case study of an activist's narrative to show that the development of agency is…
Descriptors: Activism, Learning Processes, Personal Autonomy, Correlation
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Means, Alexander J. – Critical Studies in Education, 2021
This paper examines how elite transnational policy and research organizations are framing emergent technologies as a hypermodern risk. It outlines how innovations in artificial intelligence and machine learning are feeding into global policy imaginaries and responses oriented to education and skills as adaption and minimization of potential…
Descriptors: Automation, Educational Policy, Artificial Intelligence, Global Approach
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Pedersen, Helena – Ethics and Education, 2021
Deborah Britzman's remarkable question, 'What holds education back?', appears more urgent than ever in a world of accelerating environmental crises, climate change, and what has been described as "omnicide" -- the annihilation of everything. What, then, holds education back from initiating radical change under these urgent conditions?…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Psychiatry, Ethics, Climate
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Danino-Yona, Gila – Journal of Children's Literature, 2021
This article examines the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as it is reflected in Israeli children's literature, utilizing critical, deconstructive, and postcolonial readings. Israel has been in a state of conflict with Palestinians since the day of its establishment. This ongoing conflict has found its way into Israeli children's books, many of which…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Arabs, Conflict, Foreign Policy
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Berggren, Caroline; Olofsson, Anders – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
European Union policies emphasise the importance of entrepreneurship and self-employment to maintain economic growth, a solution influenced by the USA and research from schools of business. There are expectations of higher education graduates that they are innovative, will start businesses and will employ others. However, transferring a solution…
Descriptors: Self Employment, Entrepreneurship, Small Businesses, Gender Differences
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Bates, Vincent C. – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2021
The dual aims of this essay are to consider some ways in which school music reproduces neoliberal rationalities and to suggest possibilities whereby playful aspects of music education can open spaces for disruption and resistance. After defining key terms (capital, neoliberalism, rationality, social reproduction, and alienation), patterns of…
Descriptors: Music Education, Neoliberalism, Learning Experience, Alienation
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Andersen, Niels Åkerstrøm; Pors, Justine Grønbaek – European Educational Research Journal, 2021
Taking a point of departure in the paradoxical fact that the increase in educational knowledge leads to an increase in uncertainty for educational organisations, this article explores how uncertainty and contingency have increasingly become an integral part of school governance. The article draws on Niklas Luhmann's theory of 'World Society' as a…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Governance, Foreign Countries, School Administration
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Sel, Burcu – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2021
In this research, the purpose is to develop a systematic perspective on the research on citizenship education within the scope of social studies field, to reveal the tendency of the studies, and to reach a synthesis in this direction. Meta-synthesis method was used for this purpose. Researches on "citizenship" were collected and reviewed…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Social Studies, Educational Research, Theses
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Griffiths, Tom G. – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2021
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a significant marker in global efforts to universalise a conception of ecologically sustainable human development. SDG 4's expanded vision of quality education for all extends to the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Agenda's call for education that contributes to all of SDGs,…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Social Change, Sustainable Development, Human Capital
Emily Virginia Morrow – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This research contributes to the gender and medical sociology literature with two explorations: 1) a comparison of how men and women perceive the institution of academic medicine as a meritocracy and 2) linking these perceptions with a gendered comparison of academic physician's experiences with opportunities and challenges toward full promotion.…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medicine, Gender Differences, Sex Fairness
Hannah Franklin Grisham – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This arts-based dissertation explores the stories and silences of the Winston branch of my family in order to consider how families reproduce ideologies, with the focus of this study being white supremacy and to lesser extents capitalism and patriarchy. In social studies education, is one way not only to learn about each of us, but to demystify…
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Family Attitudes, Family Life, Family Environment
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Bouillet, Dejana; Jokic, Maja – European Educational Research Journal, 2019
In European post-socialistic countries or more commonly known as Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries, regardless of their differences and specifics, the common communist and post-communist legacies in the field of educational sciences are still recognisable. The aim of this article is to explore research activity in the educational sciences…
Descriptors: Educational History, Cultural Differences, Social Systems, Foreign Countries
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Pauley, Catlin M.; McKim, Aaron J.; Hodbod, Jennifer – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2019
Scholarship within the social sciences of agriculture, food, and natural resources (AFNR) exists, in part, to inform solutions to complex problems. Increasingly, complex problems are found at the nexus of social and ecological systems; therefore, scholarship within the social sciences of AFNR must mirror this social-ecological characteristic.…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Ecology, Social Systems, Social Sciences
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Windle, Joel – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
Accounts of neoliberalism in education frequently evoke a universal trend, with insufficient attention to context, as well as routinely presenting the 'pre-neoliberal' as the ideal. This paper argues that studies of neoliberalism, concentrated in the global North, frequently ignore the distinctive forms and histories of neoliberalism in the global…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Foreign Policy, Political Attitudes, Equal Education
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Berkovich, Izhak – Journal of Educational Change, 2019
Despite the interest in governance transition in public education, it is challenging to find a theorised account of the process, and even more so in social democratic countries. To fill this gap, Israel can serve as a good case study for investigating how educational governance in social democratic countries changes under neoliberal influences. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Governance, Educational Change
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