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Carstens, Delphi – Education as Change, 2017
This paper uses Deleuzoguattarian schizoanalysis to interrogate concepts of social justice in relation to the crisis of neo-liberal capitalism by referring to the work of the Situationist International movement, the posthuman philosophy of Giles Deleuze and FĂ©lix Guattari as well as Afrofuturism. Providing an array of new theoretical responses as…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Praxis, Social Justice, Neoliberalism
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Pearl, Art; Knight, Tony – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2010
We review our involvement in social justice movements and projects over the past half-century that led to our understanding of importance of democracy. We contrast our understanding based on our extensive involvement in schools, our record of accomplishments from national and state legislation. e.g., "New Careers" projects, task forces…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Critical Theory, Democracy, Citizen Participation
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Ohrlander, Kajsa – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2005
This article tries to understand, by using some poststructural tools, practices with children that were performed by a Left action group in Sweden in the 1960s and 1970s. Modernist resistance discourses of enlightenment and liberation from obedience, silence and innocence can be seen as being produced, together with postmodern acts of unfolding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Political Attitudes, Child Development
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Frohmann, Bernd – Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 1994
Addresses the identity politics of modern communication and information technologies. These technologies embody social relations of domination and dependence, especially in their construction of specific forms of human subjectivity. The political implications of these construction systems are explored. Six recommendations for political work in…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Activism, Communications, Human Relations
McLaughlin, Daniel, Ed.; Tierney, William G., Ed. – 1993
This book presents a series of autobiographical profiles that demonstrate how educational organizations often marginalize and silence different groups. The book suggests that the development and critical analysis of personal histories of those who have been silenced and denied access in schools and in society represent ways of attaching meaning,…
Descriptors: Activism, Autobiographies, Change Strategies, Critical Theory
Tolliver, Derise; Tisdell, Elizabeth J. – 2002
Various disciplinary perspectives can help in understanding relationships among cultural identity, spirituality, and sociopolitical development and their role in teaching for transformation. Educators must consider how the spirituality omnipresent in the learning environment informs emancipatory education. Cultural identity development is coming…
Descriptors: Activism, Adult Education, Afrocentrism, Black Power