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Leonardo, Zeus; Manning, Logan – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2017
Best known for arguing that individual development is part of social and historical development Vygotsky's entry into education may be captured by his concept of the "zone of proximal development" (ZPD). ZPD has not yet been synthesized with a critical study of whiteness. When ZPD is used to explain racial disparities in the service of…
Descriptors: History, Social Theories, Racial Attitudes, Critical Theory
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Kubota, Ryuko; Miller, Elizabeth R. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2017
As critical perspectives in language studies have gained legitimacy and even mainstream status in applied linguistics, it is necessary to re-examine the meaning of criticality in language studies and to re-envision criticality for further development. The authors explore criticality from several theoretical perspectives as well as from the notion…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Language Research, Theory Practice Relationship, Postmodernism