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Shannon, Patrick – Reading Research Quarterly, 2012
This essay reviews six competing positions on U.S. school reform: a speech from Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan; Diane Ravitch's "The Death and Life of the Great American School System"; Frederick Hess's "The Same Thing Over and Over"; Charles Payne's "So Much Reform, So Little Change"; Anthony Byrk and others' "Organizing School for…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Sociology, Position Papers
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Chisholm, Mervin E.; Jimma, Tefera Tadesse; Tatsuya, Natsume; Manathunga, Catherine – International Journal for Academic Development, 2012
The purpose of this dialogue was to begin grappling with notions of neutrality and academic development in three non-western contexts: (1) Jamaica; (2) Ethiopia; and (3) Japan. The authors were asked to describe the political geography of academic development in their countries and to explore questions of neutrality. This dialogue therefore tries…
Descriptors: Human Geography, Figurative Language, Academic Achievement, Political Divisions (Geographic)
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Zepke, Nick – Policy Futures in Education, 2012
A major challenge facing higher education is balancing two competing discourses. One sees higher education as a place of learning and teaching in academic freedom, a place to enable staff and students to research and learn without restrictions, a place in which to be able to critique the status quo. The other discourse is rooted in neo-liberalism.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Freedom, Educational Technology, Foreign Countries
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Fisher, Trevor – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2012
Following his previous article in this journal on the centralisation of power in English education post the 1988 Education Reform Act ("The Era of Centralisation", "FORUM", 50[2], pp. 255-261), the author considers the apparent turn to school autonomy central to the Conservative Educational Revolution. He argues that the power…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Government School Relationship, Centralization, Politics of Education
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Collin, Ross – Journal of Education Policy, 2012
This article presents a discourse analysis of President Barack Obama's 2011 State of the Union Address. Fredric Jameson's concepts of cognitive mapping, cultural revolution, and the unconscious are employed to examine the president's vision of educational and economic transformation. Ultimately, it is argued this vision evokes a world in which…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Cognitive Mapping, Presidents, Change Strategies
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Roebben, Bert – Religious Education, 2012
In this article, the emerging field of youth ministry research is presented and interpreted through the lens of practical theology. International developments are described and compared as local responses to the ongoing global dynamics of youth culture. After an overview of four different contexts in which youth ministry research can be situated,…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Philosophy, Theological Education, International Education
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Bargueno, David P. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2012
School language policies stand at the nexus of identity politics and human rights in contemporary South Africa. Since 1996, litigation on school language policies has been resolved on the basis of language rights. Courts have emphasized that the mere mention of single-medium schools in the constitution in no way privileges these institutions over…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Court Litigation, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Mizrachi, Nissim – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2012
This article draws attention to the growing evidence of a mismatch between sociological categorization and actors' worlds of meaning as expressed in the classroom. The mismatch is especially blatant in cases where students from disadvantaged groups are introduced to what educators and theorists presume to be the liberating discourse of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multicultural Education, Cultural Pluralism, Equal Education
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Ylimaki, Rose M.; Bennett, Jeffrey V.; Fan, Jingjing; Villasenor, Elia – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2012
This article examines how Southern Arizona principals conceptualize and enact successful leadership in border schools with shifting demographics and high percentages of colonized populations. Beyond global neoliberal and neoconservative pressures for accountability and standardized curricula, Arizona principals must also navigate immigration and…
Descriptors: Principals, Academic Achievement, Instructional Leadership, Immigration
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Pacheco, Mariana – Educational Researcher, 2012
This essay addresses the value of leveraging the unique learning, thinking, and knowledge students develop in home-community spaces for school curriculum. The author explores "everyday resistance" to highlight a particular set of enacted political actions and practices in which students, families, and communities participate to negotiate the…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Hispanic American Students, Constructivism (Learning), Resistance (Psychology)
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Blum, Avram; Johnson, Eric J. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2012
This discussion draws attention to the discriminatory efforts of policymakers in Arizona to professionally marginalize public school teachers deemed to have an accent. In addition to debunking the linguistic and pedagogic validity of this policy, we emphasize the role of the media in the (re)construction and justification of language ideologies…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Ideology, Discourse Analysis, Politics of Education
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Manion, Caroline – Theory and Research in Education, 2012
Gender equality in education has become a highly embedded norm in global development policy, as well as within the poverty reduction and national development policies of aid recipient countries. Despite such progress, however, we know little about the significance of competing gender equality and education policy orientations (e.g., human capital,…
Descriptors: Females, Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Human Capital
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Hamilton, Neil W. – Academic Questions, 2012
This "crucible moment" in which democratic capitalism finds itself does not call for more government mandates to dictate progressive activism in higher education. Rather, this crucible moment calls higher education on its own initiative to focus on the moral foundation that both democracy and capitalism require. The foundation of democratic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Ethics, Free Enterprise System, Social Systems
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Heley, Jesse; Jones, Laura – Journal of Rural Studies, 2012
This paper considers how shifts within the social sciences towards conceptualising spatiality in relational terms have unfolded in rural studies in particular ways over the past decade or so. A period in which networks, connections, flows and mobility have all established themselves as compelling conceptual frames for research, the rural has…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Climate, Geographic Location, Politics
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Shortt, Damien; Hallett, Fiona; Spendlove, David; Hardy, Graham; Barton, Amanda – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
In this paper we conduct a Structuralist analysis of the General Teaching Council for England's "Code of Conduct and Practice for Registered Teachers" in order to reveal how teachers are required to fulfil an apparently impossible social role. The GTCE's "Code," we argue, may be seen as an attempt by a government agency to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Agencies, Teaching (Occupation), Personal Autonomy
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