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Pia Mikander; Henri Satokangas – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2024
Democracy is increasingly being challenged, by disengagement and by anti-pluralist movements (Levitsky and Ziblatt in How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future, Viking, New York, 2018; Wikforss in "Därför demokrati. Om kunskapen och folkstyret" [Because of this, democracy. On knowledge and people's rule] Fri Tanke, 2021;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Democracy, Democratic Values, Cultural Pluralism
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Copley, Keith – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2018
The widespread use of commercially produced coursebooks tailored to a global market remains a reality within English language teaching (ELT) across a broad range of teaching contexts. Most of these coursebooks profess to being vaguely communicative in their approach, while at the same time attempting to package and present language as a…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Course Content, Ideology, Textbook Content
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Jiaxiang, Wu – Chinese Education and Society, 2011
The book "China Is Unhappy" that made the list of best sellers not so long ago is blowing like an icy wind in spring and is poisoning the nation's mental state as though laden with a virus of unhappiness. Those who are most susceptible to it are groups of underage persons with mentalities that are still fragile and young people who have…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Foreign Countries, Ideology, Political Attitudes
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Saltmarsh, Sue – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2007
This article considers ideological, pedagogical and constitutive functions of children's picture books, with particular emphasis on the ways in which texts construct children and childhood in economic terms. Through an analysis of Lauren Childs' "Hubert Horatio Bartle Bobton-Trent" and Anthony Browne's "Voices in the Park", the article…
Descriptors: Social Class, Picture Books, Emergent Literacy, Childrens Literature