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Bunyamin, Muhammad Abd Hadi – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2019
In this forum, I explore how science teaching and learning as a moral act needs to be based in the context of a local community. I agree with Alaina Szostkowski and Bhaskar Upadhyay's assertions that if science teaching is to be equitable it needs to recognize the sociocultural variations between the Global South and the West. I also agree with…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Science Education, Social Justice, Equal Education
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Sidhu, Ravinder – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2015
This article uses postcolonial scholarship to understand the knowledge and cultural politics that underpin Australian-provided transnational higher education (TNHE) programmes in Singapore and Malaysia. A case is made for TNHE practices to develop an "engaged pedagogy" and "ethics of care" as it relates to transnational…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Foreign Countries, International Education, Teaching Methods
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Kenayathulla, Husaina Banu – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2015
Malaysia is a multi-ethnic country in which the government gives preferential treatment in education, employment, and ownership to its majority ethnic group: Bumiputera. However, affirmative action policies in the current Malaysian context should work according to John Rawls' Theory of Justice by being based on income rather than ethnicity.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethics, Affirmative Action, Educational Policy
Watson, David; Hollister, Robert; Stroud, Susan E.; Babcock, Elizabeth – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"The Engaged University" is a comprehensive empirical account of the global civic engagement movement in higher education. In universities around the world, something extraordinary is underway. Mobilizing their human and intellectual resources, institutions of higher education are directly tackling community problems--combating poverty,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Citizen Participation, Social Responsibility, Global Approach