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Maria João Mogarro; Filomena Alves Rodrigues – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2024
The time frame of this article covers the Portuguese transition to democracy in the 1970s until the 1990s, when democratic institutions operated fully. The focus lies on the way in which changes in the conceptualization of nature and society and their mutual relationship were reflected in secondary education textbooks. We explore whether and how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Democracy, Social Change
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Potter, Alice E.; Knowler, Helen; Done, Elizabeth J. – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2022
This article seeks to illustrate the usefulness to teacher educators of small-scale qualitative social media content analysis by reporting a study of online microblogs (tweets) posted by senior school leaders' relating to 'off rolling' (practices that bypass legal permanent exclusion procedures in English mainstream schools). The outlined method…
Descriptors: Social Media, Teacher Attitudes, Inclusion, Computer Software
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Herath, Sreemali – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
This study critically examines the discursive reconstruction of ethnic hierarchies in English language textbooks used in public schools in post-conflict Sri Lanka. Set against a social and political backdrop of larger nation state-building and national reconciliation taking place in Sri Lanka after it ended a three-decade ethnic conflict, this…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Ethnic Groups, Conflict Resolution, Ideology
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Aslan, Canan; Kepenekci, Yasemin Karaman; Güldenoglu, Bilge Nur Dogan; Karagül, Sedat – Journal of Peace Education, 2016
The purpose of this study is to reveal how the concept of peace is addressed in the national award-winning novels written for secondary school students within the Republic of Turkey. Data for this study was obtained from child and youth literature award organizations, associations and publishers within Turkey. Each group which was researched has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peace, Novels, Awards
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Shefer, Tamara; Ngabaza, Sisa – Perspectives in Education, 2015
Young women's sexuality is a contested terrain in multiple ways in contemporary South Africa. A growing body of work in the context of HIV and gender-based violence illustrates how young women find it challenging to negotiate safe and equitable sexual relationships with men, and are often the victims of coercive sex, unwanted early pregnancies and…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Females, Foreign Countries, Social Attitudes
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Alelaimat, Abeer Rashed; Taha, Kelle – Education, 2013
This study aims at identifying the values function, its relationship with sustainable development, and the extent of taking in to consideration the national education book for Jordanian tenth graders in the years 2004-2010. This study will attempt to answer the following questions: what is the values function that should be followed in the social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Values Education, Social Studies