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Minton, Stephen James, Ed. – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2019
"Residential Schools and Indigenous Peoples" provides an extended multi-country focus on the transnational phenomenon of genocide of Indigenous peoples through residential schooling. It analyses how such abusive systems were legitimised and positioned as benevolent during the late nineteenth century and examines Indigenous and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Indigenous Populations, Social Bias
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Claiborne, Lise Bird; Cornforth, Sue; Gibson, Ava; Smith, Alexandra – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2011
This paper uses a discursive analysis to examine the experience of "inclusion" from several stakeholder groups in one university. The research team included disability support staff at the institution, external disability consultants and academic researchers. A critical focus group investigation centred on four groups: students who were…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Focus Groups, Inclusion, College Students
Lauder, Hugh, Ed.; Young, Michael, Ed.; Daniels, Harry, Ed.; Balarin, Maria, Ed.; Lowe, John, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
The promise, embraced by governments around the world, is that the knowledge economy will provide knowledge workers with a degree of autonomy and permission to think which enables them to be creative and to attract high incomes. What credence should we give to this promise? The current economic crisis is provoking a reappraisal of both economic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Constructivism (Learning), Social Class