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Isaac Kamola – American Association of University Professors, 2024
During the 2021, 2022, and 2023 state legislative sessions more than one hundred and fifty bills were introduced seeking to actively undermine academic freedom and university autonomy. This includes nearly one hundred academic gag orders affecting higher education, such as those restricting the teaching of "critical race theory" (CRT)…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Higher Education, Social Systems, Organizations (Groups)
Emily Hanson Moore – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This post-qualitative study explores work-life balance as a sustaining fantasy produced by neoliberal, patriarchal, productivity-driven systems and how this fantasy manifests affectively for mothers who work in community colleges. The study began by contextualizing the work-life balance fantasy within higher education as a gendered workscape.…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Metacognition, Family Work Relationship, Poetry
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Anabel Corral-Granados; Anna Cecilia Rapp; Eli Smeplass – Cogent Education, 2024
Few Nordic studies put children's experiences of social inequality at their centre. This article explores the children's perceptions of their education and well-being within two Nordic cities. The participants in this cross-national comparative qualitative study are children living in polarised urban metropolitan areas in Norway and Sweden. Our…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Well Being, Child Welfare, Equal Education
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Dinorah-Marie Hudson – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2024
This article presents an analysis of environmental science curriculum materials to interrogate and reveal settler moves to innocence (Tuck & Yang, 2012) by analyzing the language used to describe concepts and events that invisiblize Indigenous knowledge and hide settler colonial logics. Using Decolonization is not a metaphor (Tuck & Yang,…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Curriculum, Science Education, Instructional Materials
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Howlett, Caitlin – Philosophical Studies in Education, 2017
The authors' life is inundated with children. She has always had an affinity for children insofar as they appear to her to be much more inquisitive and open-minded than the average so-called adult, and thus she enjoys springing big ideas on them to see what emerges. For instance, the author recently engaged in a twenty-minute-long conversation…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Critical Theory, Children, Social Systems
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Lilliedahl, Jonathan – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2020
The following article examines the emerging historical legitimacy of specialised comprehensive schools in Sweden. During the 1980s, neoliberal ideas were gaining ground in Swedish educational policy. As a result, the social democratic government began to relax the rigour of the unified, state-regulated educational system. Specialised music classes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Music Education, Neoliberalism
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Bleakley, Alan – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2020
The journal "Advances in Health Sciences Education: Theory and Practice" has, under Geoff Norman's leadership, promoted a collaborative approach to investigating educationally-savvy and innovative health care practices, where academic medical educators can work closely with healthcare practitioners to improve patient care and safety. But…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Individualism, Self Help Programs, Democracy
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Karcher, Nicola – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2020
During the Nazi occupation of Norway from 1940 to 1945, Norwegian society was exposed to comprehensive Nazification measures. Considered racially equal, it was intended that the "Germanic" Norwegians would be transformed into a National Socialist people's community. With the establishment of the so-called new order on 25 September 1940,…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Educational History, Educational Change, Institutional Characteristics
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Altan, Mustafa Zulkuf – Education Reform Journal, 2020
Education is usually considered as one of the most important social institutions. Since it builds the present and the future of each and every society, all the other institutions such as, family, politics, health, religion and economics would be meaningless and incomplete without it. As being the foremost instrument and power for creating the…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Futures (of Society), Correlation, Role of Education
Peterson, Rachelle – National Association of Scholars, 2020
In exchange for generous Chinese government funding, the College Board has given China strategic access to American K-12 education. Since at least 2003, the College Board has sponsored Confucius Institutes at K-12 schools, served as a recruiter for Chinese government programs, and helped the Chinese Communist Party design and gain control over…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, International Programs, Deception
Tessa R. Sutton – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This single case study explored K-12 school leaders' perceptions of their district's structure for implementing diversity and creating inclusion as a framework (Getzels & Guba, 1957). Previous research that highlighted the views and perceptions of school leaders with respect to diversity and inclusion in schools as social systems focused on…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Schools, Leaders, Attitudes
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Clarke, Matthew – Power and Education, 2018
This article draws on psychoanalytic theory to reconsider democracy, education and their relationship. The author argues for the pervasive presence of fantasmatic thinking in relation to both democracy and education in much media and policy discussion, which fuels our subjection to ideology through cruelly optimistic promises about the future…
Descriptors: Democracy, Educational Practices, Educational Policy, Psychiatry
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Blackmore, Paul – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2018
The ideas of 'prestige' and of a 'prestige economy' are coming into wider use in discussion of higher education. The terms are here set against the background of an enduring interest in issues of status. A current theoretical context is provided through Bourdieu's analyses of academic work and ideas in the field of cultural production, together…
Descriptors: Reputation, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Policy Formation
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Bradley, Joff P. N. – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2018
In thinking the passage from the "all-human cerebrum" (H.G. Wells) to what one might call the contemporary "all-too-human" cerebrum in neo-liberal societies and beyond to the "all-too-transhuman" cerebrum in the cybernetic society, in contrasting Wells's idea of a new world order with the dystopia of the disordering…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Neoliberalism, Authoritarianism, Social Systems
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Godfrey, Erin B.; Burson, Esther – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2018
Developmental psychologists widely recognize that the social structures and inequities of American society influence youth development. A burgeoning body of research also considers how youth marginalized by society critically evaluate societal inequities and take action to change them (critical consciousness, Freire "[Education for critical…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Disadvantaged Youth, Critical Thinking, Social Systems
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