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The Contemporary Scholar in Higher Education: Forms, Ethos and World View
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Paul Gibbs, Editor; Victoria de Rijke, Editor; Andrew Peterson, Editor – Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
This book examines what a scholar looks and feels like in contemporary times. It suggests that scholars are more than people employed as academics and discusses how different world ideologies, cultures and systems view their scholars and how they might be considered in the changing and challenging nature of higher education. The book includes…
Descriptors: Higher Education, World Views, College Faculty, Ideology
Educational Leadership in the Bahamas: A Postcolonial Indigenous Narrative Study of School Principals' Leadership Experiences
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Brandon L. Clark – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Given the significance of school leaders and leadership to teaching, learning, and student success, research on school principal leadership has expanded from its foundations in Western Anglo-American nations to international, diverse, and historically marginalized contexts. However, an enduring critique and limitation of the educational leadership…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Instructional Leadership, Postcolonialism
The Construction of Ideological Subjects: Siamese Students in Anna Leonowens' English Classroom
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Tripasai, Pornsawan – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2019
The history of English language teaching in Thailand is recorded in Anna Leonowens' Orientalist text. In 1862, Leonowens came to Siam to work as an English teacher for King Mongkut's children. She retired from her teaching position and left the country in 1867. Leonowens wrote an account of her experience in Siam, publishing it under the title The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Educational History
Between 'Here-Now' and 'There-Then': The West and Asia's Colonial Entanglements in International Higher Education
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Chatterjee, Soma; Barber, Kathryn – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
Drawing on a review of international higher education (IHE) policies, priorities, and literature from the USA, Canada, Australia, and the UK over the course of a 16-year period (2000-2016), this article identifies a strong scholarly and policy preoccupation with the urgency of the global knowledge economy and cognate discourses of 'Asia Pacific…
Descriptors: International Education, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Policy
Educational Reform and Donor Funding in Postcolonial Ghana
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Asiedu, Eddy D.; Feinberg, Joseph R. – Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, 2021
Understanding the history of educational reform in Ghana--with a focus on the de-colonialization period through the 21st century--highlights the influence of donor funding. This historical study investigates through a postcolonial lens the power dynamic between international donor organizations and Ghana's leaders and citizens. While donor funding…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Foreign Policy, Postcolonialism
The Complexity of Spivak's Project: A Marxist Interpretation
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Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annibale; Peter McLaren; Lilia Monzó – Qualitative Research Journal, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to engage some of the central themes of Gayatri Spivak's seminal essay, "Can the Subaltern Speak? (CSS)" In particular, her criticisms of post-structuralism's treatment of the "subject" as well as its privileging of "discourse" and micrological analyses of power vis-à-vis her…
Descriptors: Criticism, Power Structure, Political Attitudes, Social Systems