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Rasmussen, Mary Lou; Gowlett, Christina; Connell, Raewyn – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2014
The most attractive thing in queer theory is the social movement energy that's been in it, the sense of excitement and boundary-breaking, the sense of new perspectives. Given the social anxieties and manipulated fear and right-wing triumphalism around today, people need that excitement and boldness--in education and in society at large. In this…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Social Theories, Educational Research, Politics of Education
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Jones, Stephanie; Rainville, Kristin N. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2014
Literacy coaches are in the business of helping to create some kind of change--change in teaching practice, change in school policy, change in curriculum, or change in teachers and children themselves. But the social interactions necessary for change to happen, such as in-classroom consultations conducted by a literacy coach, are often fraught…
Descriptors: Literacy, Coaching (Performance), Power Structure, Social Theories
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Payne, Phillip G. – Environmental Education Research, 2010
"Green families" in Australia were studied so as to shed light on how a more durable, everyday environmental ethic and ecopolitic might slowly be enacted in the intimacy of the home "place" over an extended period of time in rapidly changing socio-cultural-ecological conditions. Of particular interest to this study of the green…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Ecology, Foreign Countries, Ethics