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Lee, Jack T. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2023
Recent calls for the decolonization of the academy demand recognition for diverse canons of knowledge. Asia's economic ascent also imparts rising confidence among Asian scholars and institutions to promote indigenous knowledge. While these global calls for emancipation are invigorating, decolonial scholarship is prone to sterile theorization,…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Indigenous Knowledge, Economic Development, Asians
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Bain, Zara – Ethics and Education, 2018
I argue that political philosopher Charles W. Mills' twin concepts of 'the epistemology of ignorance' and 'white ignorance' are useful tools for thinking through racial injustice in the British education system. While anti-racist work in British education has a long history, racism persists in British primary, secondary and tertiary education. For…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Bias, Epistemology, Whites
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Foster, Victoria; Young, Alys – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2015
This article concerns a study that examines the attitudes of parents, who have had babies in neonatal care, to sharing their babies' routinely collected health data for research purposes. A participatory methodology was applied to the design of the study; a group of eleven parents who had all previously had babies in neonatal care were involved in…
Descriptors: Neonates, Parent Attitudes, Medical Evaluation, Data Collection
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Bamber, Phil – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2011
This article draws upon the findings of a study at Liverpool Hope University (LHU) into the transformative nature of International Service-Learning (ISL) experiences for student participants. This research is concerned with the implications of these findings for professional practice, in particular how ISL is constructed in Higher Education policy…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Grounded Theory, Catholic Schools, Transformative Learning
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Carr, David – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2008
Although he shares many of Professor Roger Trigg's views about the logical character and human significance of religion and religious discourse, including the view that religious claims are matters for rational understanding and appraisal, the author expresses difficulties with key points in Trigg's diagnosis and critique of what he takes to be…
Descriptors: Freedom, Political Attitudes, Religion, Foreign Countries
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Green, Anthony – Policy Futures in Education, 2007
This articles addresses the conservative dynamics of "neoconservatism" in the field of education with particular reference to possible complementarities between the "voices" of two, seemingly alternative public intellectuals. These dynamics are conceptualized as part of what is, in social realist mode,…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Morale, Political Attitudes, Foreign Countries