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Stevenson, Allyson – American Indian Quarterly, 2013
The 1983 Review of the Family Services Act (1973) and the Advisory Council meetings in Saskatchewan should be viewed against the backdrop of political changes taking place in North American society. Beginning with decolonization movements in both Canada and the United States, control over the provision of child and family services to indigenous…
Descriptors: American Indians, Child Welfare, Gender Discrimination, North Americans
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Philip, Thomas M. – Urban Education, 2013
Understanding teaching as a political act is often assumed to be a strength for teachers; however, this assumption conceals important aspects of their processes of becoming politicized. I argue that seeing teaching as a political act can be a liability for prospective teachers of color who engaged with college student activism if these assumed…
Descriptors: Activism, Teacher Education Programs, Urban Schools, Race
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Armitage, John – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2005
This article is an intervention into and examination of hypermodern forms of militarization or what the author calls "hypermodern militarized knowledge factories," exemplified here by the increasingly militarized universities of North America. He specifies the important arguments of his intervention into the hypermodern militarization of…
Descriptors: North Americans, Intervention, Social Theories, Higher Education