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Zembylas, Michalinos; Bekerman, Zvi; Haj-Yahia, Muhammad M.; Schaade, Nader – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
This paper suggests the need for a critical analysis of the nationalization of mourning and its educational implications, especially in conflict-ridden areas. Our thoughts are grounded in a comparative study on mourning that has been conducted as part of our long-standing ethnographic research in schools in Cyprus and Israel during the last 10…
Descriptors: Grief, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Ethnography, Foreign Countries
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Peters, Susan; Gabel, Susan; Symeonidou, Simoni – Disability & Society, 2009
The social model of disability has been a useful tool to shift the focus of disability as individual deficit to disability as a social construction in an oppressive society. However, a theory of political action is needed to create transformative change. This article develops resistance as a unifying political construct and tool for action. Four…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Social Attitudes, Social Bias