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Gramscian Analysis of K-12 Schools in Brazil
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Alexandre Weingrill Araujo – Critical Education, 2023
This paper aims at discussing the characteristics of the Brazilian K-12 educational system using contributions from the Italian scholar Antonio Gramsci. His writings about education discuss the effects of unequal distribution of educational opportunities among students of different social classes and the consequences of this inequality on the…
Descriptors: Marxian Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices
From Critical Practice to Response: The Outcome of a Singular College Strike
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Doughty, Howard A. – International Journal of Adult Education and Technology, 2021
On October 16, 2017, over 12,000 faculty, librarians, and counsellors in 24 independent postsecondary colleges in Ontario, Canada went on strike for the fourth time since they organized in 1971 as members of the Civil Service Association of Ontario and won their first collective agreement the next year. Begun as an apolitical, self-consciously…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Strikes, Collective Bargaining
Vindicating Stalin: Responding to Lefebvre
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Malott, Curry – Policy Futures in Education, 2017
No significant scholarship in educational studies has focused on Lefebvre's engagement with socialist state theory and his position against Stalin. As a result, when Lefebvre's thoughts on the state and on actually existing socialism are mentioned, they are engaged completely uncritically. This essay addresses this crucial gap. Toward these ends,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Systems, Ideology, Leaders
Critical Theory, Critical Pedagogy and the Permanent Crisis in Community Colleges
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Doughty, Howard A. – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2014
The historical failures of Marxism in the twentieth-century came in three forms: the inability to account for the rise of fascism and Nazism; the establishment of authoritarian regimes where "communist" revolutions had occurred, largely in pre-industrial societies from barely post-feudal Russia to peasant-based China and…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Educational Practices, Community Colleges, Marxian Analysis
Alienation in Mathematics Education: Critique and Development of Neo-Vygotskian Perspectives
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Williams, Julian – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2016
This paper aims to critique and develop neo-Vygotskian work in mathematics education from (i) within the Vygotskian and activity theoretic tradition, and where necessary from (ii) a Bourdieusian perspective. First, I critique Roth and Radford's (2011) version of Cultural-historical Activity Theory, suggesting that a classroom episode presented as…
Descriptors: Alienation, Educational Theories, Criticism, Cultural Capital
A Critical Reflection on a Suggested Return to Aesthetic Experience in Socialist China
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Man, Eva Kit Wah – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2001
It is said that aestheticians today, including art critics and philosophers, are yearning for some kind of salvation for contemporary art. This salvation would come in the form of a return to aesthetic experience that would act as a foundation enabling resistance to pure discursive reflection and intertextuality. These debates concerning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aesthetics, Philosophy, Criticism