Pub Date : 2024-08-16DOI: 10.1177/17577438241275799
Maya Puspitasari
This article employs narrative inquiry to investigate the experiences of an English teacher, referred to as Dede (pseudonym), at a senior high school in West Java, Indonesia. The research question guiding this study is: ‘How does an English teacher in senior high school navigate and adapt his teaching approaches in response to curriculum changes in Indonesia?’ Using a semi-structured interview, this study provides a detailed analysis of Dede’s narratives to uncover the challenges faced by English educators in this setting and to highlight the sources of their motivation and dedication. The research focuses on four main themes: teaching journey; public versus private schools; curriculum stories; and policy and practice. The findings reveal the complex obstacles and dynamic changes in curriculum that English teachers navigate, offering valuable insights into the broader context of senior secondary education in Indonesia. By exploring Dede’s teaching path, this study contributes to the ongoing discussion of effective teaching strategies and the evolving landscape of English language education in West Java.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-05DOI: 10.1177/17577438241272594
Mehmet KIRMIZI
Teacher expectation mediates the interaction between teacher and students, and teachers tend to differentiate their interaction with their students based on their expectation. In this study, I explore the mediator role of teacher expectation to the participation of ongoing mathematical discussion. Academic interaction between an 8th grade mathematics teacher, and her students ( n = 20) academic interactions were recorded ( n = 20) and analyzed by using EQUIP during two grading periods. Results of this study reveal that the majority of academic interaction happens between a teacher and a small subset (high expected) of students. High expected students had much more opportunities than all the other students to participate to the ongoing mathematical discussion.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-03DOI: 10.1177/17577438241265461
Fengling Tang, Evelyn Wandia Corrado
Researchers have criticised the pragmatic focus on the value of music education for its contribution to the acquisition of children’s academic skills such as literacy and numeracy development in schools across the international contexts driven by neoliberalism. In the context of Froebel’s Mother Songs, this paper via documentary research focuses on a Froebelian approach to music education in early childhood context to counterpart the neoliberal pragmatism in educational landscapes. The Froebelian perspective brings in implications for early childhood practice, research and policy-making by addressing the important role of music in supporting young children’s holistic learning and wellbeing in responding to the neoliberal pressures on children and practitioners in the 21st century.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-20DOI: 10.1177/17577438241265456
Bill Davies
This paper provides a critical view of the digital education within the global prison estate, with a specific aim of examining the extent to which we can expect the prison system of England and Wales to embrace digital pedagogy. By presenting critical sociological theories around social hierarchies and the transitions between them that education can provide (Freire, 1972; Gramsci, 1994; Kant, 1992), the paper will be able to show how while there is a desire and appetite for increasing the digital education of those who are at the lower end of the social economic divide; without buy in from the cultural hegemonic state (Gramsci. 1994), then there is no desire to aid prisoners to be able to access the global digital community. While the paper will paint a bleak picture of the digital education of prisoners, it will provide a latitudinal overview of successful programmes that are being run within the global prison estate. This in turn will show that while there is hope for a digitally accessible prison in which to aid education, it will be done so through capitalistic ideals rather than pedagogical ones.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1177/17577438241252980
Philippa Mullins
In this essay, I reflect on my experience teaching graduate classes on social justice in Yerevan. Here, an important part of the experience of injustice is epistemic. By this, I mean that students’ discourses of injustice often centre around their perception of other peoples’ lack of and/or refusal of their knowledge and consequent misrepresentation of current – and past – events. This form of epistemic injustice is layered upon experiences of war, loss, and dislocation which drive many students to take up graduate studies in social justice. In response, I consider the nature of the unwellness created by the intertwining of this experience and the epistemic injustice perpetuated around and about it. I discuss troubles in the reception and misuse of context. Subsequently, I think about how we can challenge this unwellness through how we create knowledge as a learning community. Rather than producing rules, I propose touchstones which might guide us to create knowledge as though our ‘ we’ – in community of difference – matters, and as though we, in fact, matter.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-23DOI: 10.1177/17577438241257662
Pfuurai Chimbunde, Boitumelo Benjamin Moreeng
While educational debates on the decolonisation of education have gained momentum in Sub-Saharan Africa, little is known about the success and progress made thus far, leaving a critical gap in our understanding of the accomplishment of the decolonisation agenda and whether what has been reformed is of use. Using document analysis, the qualitative study used Zimbabwe as a case to explore the progress made in the decolonisation of the education system to address the needs of the local population. The findings reveal that post-colonial educational reforms in Zimbabwe remain cosmetic and without meaningful thrust to assist in the socio-economic development and success of the once underprivileged. The study concludes that post-colonial education in Zimbabwe and other African states despite more than four decades of reforming the education system, the plight of the ordinary graduate seems little improved. It recommends that post-colonial states in Africa must interrogate the central purpose of education, the intended audience, the way people learn, and the subject matter and how it should be organised and presented. The study contributes to the topical debate on the need to transform the African education systems and their curricula in response to the decolonialisation agenda in the Global South.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-15DOI: 10.1177/17577438241246095
Carmel Roofe
Teachers’ understanding of their personal histories is beneficial to their understanding and conceptualisation of their roles as teacher professionals. Insights from such understanding in post-colonial societies help to shape teachers’ consciousness about how they can run their own course (curriculum) to create liberating experiences for themselves and those they teach. This paper draws on the autobiographical method of currere to deconstruct stories of four in-service teachers about their teaching and learning experiences as students in Jamaican classrooms and how these experiences intertwine with their current professional practice. Findings derived from the teachers’ written reflections revealed that perceptions about types of schools and the associated consequences remain the largest area of complexity and representation of coloniality for teachers. Linked to this is the skills teachers themselves demonstrate and the positive and negative emotions those skills evoke for students. The teachers also expressed their responsibility towards advocating for self and their students as opportunities to create change and resist coloniality. The paper therefore offers recommendations for teachers and teachers of teachers (teacher educators) on how to build anti-colonial futures through curriculum conversations with their students.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-09DOI: 10.1177/17577438241239828
Michael D Smith, Travis Hunter Past
In the face of ongoing ecological, economic, and social concerns, the UN’s sustainable development framework emerges as a map for securing a brighter tomorrow. Yet, against this backdrop, the neoliberal values of deregulation, open marketisation, and individualisation constrain sustainable development outcomes. Building on previous research conducted in Japan, a nation positioned at the forefront of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), this ‘think piece’ seeks to offer a critical examination of its implementation and positionality within Japan’s education system, specifically the imbalance between public and private educational providers. Drawing on Bourdieu’s symbolic violence, we seek to shed light on the social norms (in this case, skill-based human capital development) replicated through education, the long-standing power structures reinforcing them, and finally, the gap between the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ in terms of access to attaining covetable neoliberal skills. The goal of this piece is not to reject the altruistic good of ESD. On the contrary, through this analysis, we hope to generate greater awareness by engendering a more meaningful and transformative ESD aligning with sustainability as a shared public good. Consequently, we call for more equitable ESD available to all students, regardless of educational setting.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-26DOI: 10.1177/17577438241239826
James Avis
The paper raises important questions about the relationship between Vocational Education and Training (VET), work-based learning (WBL) and social justice. It adopts an analysis that moves beyond conceptualisations that validate WBL as an acknowledgement of the dignity of labour. It seeks to go beyond analyses that mobilise a conventional understanding of expansive learning. How then can we develop a broader understanding of WBL and VET? Such an understanding needs to acknowledge socio-economic contexts are marked by a fluidity and surplus labour and for many worklessness – what some have described as désoeuvrement. Labor can be an expression of our species being and can be found in unwaged work and the activities we engage in to express our humanity. Such labour is external to the oppressions and exploitation that are features of much waged labour. Is it then possible to conceive of an expansive notion of VET that goes beyond wage-based cultures of expansive learning towards a position that has embedded within it a commitment towards collective well-being, social justice and an understanding of the vocational that moves beyond a focus on waged labour and the interests of capital.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-20DOI: 10.1177/17577438241239831
Yorgos Retalis
The current study examined the unofficial implementation of direct-democratic decision-making assemblies in three typical public (state) schools of consecutive educational levels (kindergarten, primary and middle school) in a village in Greece. The study drew on Michel Foucault’s analysis of power technologies and power relations in disciplinary dispositives like Education. The main aim of the study was to investigate the ways in which both pupils and teachers engaged with the disciplinary technology inherent in the educational dispositive and to document their conceptualization and attitudes towards these direct-democratic assemblies. The research methodology utilized participant observation and semi-structured interviews. Findings indicated that the disciplinary technology continued to function as per the dominant dispositive, despite the implementation of direct-democratic decision-making assemblies, while pupils generally exhibited a sense of empowerment, displaying support and being influenced in their daily lives by the assemblies’ governmentality. Minor challenges concerning the implementation of such assemblies are addressed and further possibilities of such implementations are discussed.
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