This article, based on an interpretive study, examines what happens when a team of teaching fellows and their supervisor attempt to address what they have identified as a "pedagogical crisis" in a social foundations of education course. Student proclivities had resulted in extreme polarization regarding contested social issues. By using a…

Argues that technicism, the uncritical acceptance of the values of a modern technologically based society, leads to endemic environmental degradation. Proposes a reconceptualization of environmental literacy to include purposeful action based on a critical understanding of the social, economic, and political underpinnings of our environmental…

This paper reports a three-year study of Praxis Inquiry based developments in teacher education undertaken by an international consortium of university colleagues who have worked in Australia, Iceland, Latvia, and the United Kingdom. Our study suggests that the attainment of inclusive community responsive pedagogies--in schools and in teacher…