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Gottesman, Isaac – Curriculum Inquiry, 2012
Michael Apple's "Ideology and Curriculum", published in 1979, helped initiate a broad turn in the field of education in the United States to Marxist thought as a lens through which to analyze the relationship between school and society. This classic text continues to inform scholarship in the field. While "Ideology" has…
Descriptors: Marxian Analysis, Ideology, Curriculum, Role of Education
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Mojab, Shahrzad; Carpenter, Sara – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2011
This paper brings together two ongoing research projects on current citizenship learning programs in Iraq and the United States, both of which draw from the theoretical ground of Marxist-feminist perspective. A particular strength of this paper is its comparison between two American citizenship education programs in the context of neoliberalism,…
Descriptors: Democracy, Citizenship Education, War, Political Attitudes
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Kemmis, Stephen – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2010
Educational action is a species of praxis in both an Aristotelian sense and a post-Marxian sense: in the first, it involves the morally informed and committed action of the individual practitioners who practise education; in the second, it helps to shape social formations and conditions for collectivities of people. In this paper, it is argued…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Research Utilization, Theory Practice Relationship
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Luke, Allan – Theory Into Practice, 2012
The term "critical literacy" refers to use of the technologies of print and other media of communication to analyze, critique, and transform the norms, rule systems, and practices governing the social fields of everyday life (A. Luke, 2004). Since Freire's (1970) educational projects in Brazil, approaches to critical literacy have been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Literacy, Critical Theory, Critical Reading
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Stenberg, Shari J. – College English, 2006
In this essay, the author argues that the potential for achieving the goals of critical pedagogy would be enriched if teachers had a fuller understanding of the ties between critical pedagogy and Christian liberation theology. While many are familiar with Paulo Freire's roots in Marxism, the fact that his vision of praxis and conscientization…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Philosophy, Religious Factors, Beliefs
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Min, Pyong Gap – Amerasia Journal, 1990
Pyong Gap Min and Edna Bonacich have both written about Korean Americans' immigration and occupational adjustment. Their variant findings are a result of individual philosophical differences. Discusses the practical implications of both writers' conclusions. (DM)
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Immigrants, International Relations, Korean Americans
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Holst, John D. – Harvard Educational Review, 2006
In this article, John Holst presents findings of his historical research on Paulo Freire's educational work in Chile from 1964 to 1969. Freire's "Education as the Practice of Freedom", which was written in 1965 from notes he brought from Brazil, was informed by a liberal developmentalist outlook. In contrast, his "Pedagogy of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Philosophy, Educational History, Critical Theory
Moore, John H., Ed. – 1993
This book presents 12 papers that proceed from the idea that Native American history in the United States and Canada is best understood not as an Indian-European cultural conflict but as an economic conflict between communal and capitalist modes of production. Three chapters are of particular educational interest. "Political Economy in…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian History, American Indian Reservations, American Indians