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Zyngier, David – International Review of Education, 2017
Educational research often portrays culturally, linguistically and economically disenfranchised (CLED) children's disengagement from school learning as individual behaviour, ignoring the contribution of race, gender, socio-cultural, ethnic and social class factors. This paper analyses a specific community engagement programme in Australia which…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Informal Education, Equal Education, Social Justice
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Zyngier, David; Traverso, María Delia; Murriello, Adriana – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2015
This paper compares and contrasts pre-service teachers' (PSTs) beliefs about democracy in Argentina and Australia. While there are many important studies of how school students understand democracy and democratic participation, few have studied what teachers, and especially pre-service teachers, think about democracy. This paper uses a mixed…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
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Zyngier, David – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2012
This research is located within the call for schools to raise the achievement of students from culturally, linguistically and economically diverse (CLED) backgrounds. It combines quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to compare and contrast preservice teachers' (PSTs) responses to "scenarios" that explore beliefs regarding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Beliefs, Elementary Education
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Zyngier, David – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2011
This review of current research into at-risk programmes serves to categorise and characterise existing programmes and to evaluate the contribution of these programmes to assisting students at risk from marginalised backgrounds. This characterisation questions the (sometimes) implicit assumptions and the consequences of those assumptions inherent…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Constructivism (Learning), At Risk Students, Social Influences
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Zyngier, David – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2007
This article examines contemporary research and debates about pedagogies of engagement that challenge the traditional assumptions and understandings of engagement. Three contesting epistemological constructions of student engagement are identified and examined through the contesting and resisting voices of teachers and students. The article's…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Academic Achievement, Learner Engagement, Epistemology
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Zyngier, David – Issues in Educational Research, 2004
Two seminal reports on the state of education advantage and disadvantage in so called "rich nations" were released in 2002 by the international agencies OECD (2002a) and UNICEF (2002). These complex reports are brought to the attention of those at the very centre of the education debate, the general public, through the public media. What…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Equal Education, Printed Materials, Foreign Countries