Pub Date : 2024-03-20DOI: 10.1177/17577438241239832
Clare Cunningham
The notion of inert benevolence has been written about in the context of primary school teachers working with languages beyond English (Cunningham and Little, 2022). However, the concept has a broader relevance for those working in education and this paper seeks to explore it more fully, through the use of the metaphor of a flower press in order to understand how the power of numerous factors bearing down on teachers leads to inert benevolence.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-19DOI: 10.1177/17577438241239840
Vivienne Orchard, Eleanor K Jones
This article uses ‘wellbeing’ as deployed within UK higher education as a starting point for examining the relationship between disability and the university. We explore various strands of scholarship that seek to critique wellbeing, universities, and/or connections between disability and these institutions. Work on ‘wellbeing’ identifies the harmful logics underpinning its political appropriation, but erases disability by declining to consider it as political experience. Critiques of the university efface disability by considering disablement only insofar as it affects the non-disabled, and reify ‘intellect’ as neutral entity and sole true purview of higher education. Work on the political economy of disability exposes crucial connections between disability and capitalism, and the role of economic and political institutions in upholding them, but relies on a distinction between worker and surplus that cannot reckon with institutional complexity. Finally, scholarship that directly confronts the university as disabling institution accounts for complexity, but hinges on an ultimately utopian vision of the university as an exceptional, salvageable space, neglecting key mechanisms by which it continues to marginalise disabled people. We suggest that reaching a fuller understanding of the university as producing disability must involve moving away from this exceptionalism and toward dialogue with critiques of other institutions.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-29DOI: 10.1177/17577438231225132
P. Chimbunde, B. Moreeng
This qualitative case study from Zimbabwe drew inspiration from the sharp rise of for-profit, high-cost private schools to explore and discuss the perspectives of the parents, teachers and private school owners on the nexus between the emergence of private secondary schools and the applicability of Ubuntu values. Tapping insights from the Ubuntu values, the generated data from online questionnaires and WhatsApp discussions were employed to discern the phenomenon. The themed findings built from a sample of 20 participants purposively selected show that Zimbabwe’s education system has ricocheted back to the colonial era as evidenced by the resurfacing of a dual education system based on economic lines. Findings show that private schools evolved not just to supplement public schools in providing quality education but also to reinforce the interests of the wealthy and their substitutes, undermining the inclusive vision embodied in SDG 4 and the Ubuntu philosophy. The study implores African countries in similar contexts to turn to Ubuntu values to provide equal educational opportunities to all citizens, regardless of class. This exploratory research provides novel insights into the applicability of Ubuntu philosophy in enhancing parity in the educational landscape.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-28DOI: 10.1177/17577438231225140
Anastasia Liasidou, Sotiroula Liasidou
The article discusses recent Higher Education (HE) initiatives to introduce the Sunflower Scheme, which enables students with hidden disabilities to ‘discreetly’ indicate the existence of a disability to access support. A significant problem related to persons with hidden disabilities lies in their frequent reluctance to disclose their disabilities because of discriminatory attitudes that arise not only due to the dominance of arbitrary fabrications of ‘normalcy’ – aligned with elitist and human capital HE discourses – but also due to the lack of recognition of the existence of hidden disabilities. Even though the Scheme has been touted as a method that recognises hidden disabilities in HE, it, nevertheless, reinforces discourses of ‘misrecognition’ that create power inequities and project subordinated identities. The article argues that introducing the Scheme in HE constitutes another manifestation of disability-related initiatives that reinforce individual pathology and paternalistic discourses of dependency. The article contributes to a policy dialogue on the need to introduce alternative forms of provision to foster disability-inclusive practices in HE and makes a case to empirically capture the ‘lived experience’ of the Scheme in the context of Disability Equality policies in HE.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.1177/17577438231218376
Khalid Arar, Miguel Guajardo, Anna Saiti, Eman Abo-Zaed Arar
There are many studies on the role of technology in facilitating equality, quality, and effectiveness in higher learning in the last decade. This study aims at exploring the sustainability of a postgraduate program in a USA context following the COVID surge. Relational assurance is employed through qualitative methods, and frameworks to make sense of higher learning systems, and curricula through the authors’ ontological, epistemological, and place-based contributions following the move to online delivery in 2021. A qualitative case study approach was employed combining semi-structured interviews with faculty and focus-group interviews with graduate students for gaining a deeper understanding of the observables documenting one postgraduate program of educational leadership in Central Texas. The primary expectation of postgraduate students and faculty members is a sense of community. The program reflects a sense of belonging and reality present in local schools, communities, and policy/practice. The meaning of community also includes a common purpose, members committed to a common good, a sense of belonging, and emotional interaction following the COVID surge, the shift to digital technology, and alternative modality of content delivery. This article contributes to the international literature by redefining the quality, value-based, and relational assurance of higher education postgraduate programs. In responding to current conditions and needs while aiming to build sustainable and responsive communities by inviting community members for the assets they bring, their commitment to the region’s development, and further deepen their sense of diversity, inclusion, and collective action for the public good.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-28DOI: 10.1177/17577438231218374
Thandi Gamedze, G. Ruiters
There is a robust debate about innovative ways to improve educational outcomes and governance in public schools located in the poorest townships in South Africa. This article looks at one recent innovation, a new model for providing basic education called ‘collaboration schools’, based on the British academy schools. We seek to understand what these partnerships between philanthropists, government, and parents entail, the specific problems the partners seek to address, the key actors involved, and the power relations that have emerged. Based on interviews with key local actors and a close reading of partnership agreements, the authors argue that although well-intentioned, the experts taking over schools have faced considerable resistance as well as deep structural challenges related to the social and economic decline in black townships. We also point to policy weaknesses linked to unsettled issues of class inequalities and apartheid spatial legacies.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-28DOI: 10.1177/17577438231218377
Khalid Arar, Denise Mifsud
It is widely agreed that the relationship between poverty and education is bi-directional: poor people lack access to a decent education, and without the latter people are often constrained to a life of poverty (Van der Berg, 2008). Poverty as a “lifetime, and life-wide status” thus develops into a self-fulfilling prophecy that is difficult to emerge from. We acknowledge the interplay between the notions of “poverty,” and “disadvantage,” especially in the wide context of education, and school leadership more specifically, as the focus of this conceptual paper, and thus use them interchangeably in order to advocate for full, and equal opportunities in life as a matter of equity, and fairness. Moreover, we firmly regard education as a direct social justice contributor both in the provision of equal life opportunities, and in imparting students with the responsibility for the perpetration of such opportunities (Waite and Arar, 2020). In this conceptual commentary, we stretch this scholarship of social justice further by troubling the notion of poverty from a social justice lens, and redefining it as a type of “under-privilege” in order to engage scholars, policymakers, and stakeholders in meaning-making, and action. We seek to provide our contextual, inclusive, and problematized re-definition of poverty in relation to schooling, and education by portraying students to be considered at risk at any point in time. We ultimately ask ourselves, and our readers to reflect upon this quintessential question: “What is the purpose of education epitomized by?”
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Pub Date : 2023-11-21DOI: 10.1177/17577438231217035
Erna Listyaningsih, Euis Mufahamah, A. Mukminin, Florante P. Ibarra, Ma. Ruby Hiyasmin M. Delos Santos, Rosario F Quicho
One of the initiatives to strengthen the Indonesian economy is entrepreneurship. Concern has been raised about how little entrepreneurship is being pursued by recent college graduates. Several earlier studies have discovered that an entrepreneur can successfully run his business if there is an interest in entrepreneurship. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate how entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship intentions, and entrepreneurship motivation affect students’ entrepreneurship interest in entrepreneurship among higher education students in Bandar Lampung, Indonesia. Regarding the geopolitical constellations at the international, national, and regional levels, Bandar Lampung, Indonesia, is in a very favorable position. Thus, 180 students who had taken entrepreneurship courses at nine universities in Bandar Lampung were asked to complete a questionnaire, and the information was then analyzed using PLS-SEM. It was determined that entrepreneurship education had no discernible impact on entrepreneurship motivation. Furthermore, entrepreneurship interest was not significantly impacted by entrepreneurship motivation. Additionally, there was no discernible mediating effect of entrepreneurial motivation on entrepreneurial education to entrepreneurship interest. However, the relationship between entrepreneurship motivation and entrepreneurship education was significantly impacted by entrepreneurship intention. These results imply that students at the university in Bandar Lampung believe that entrepreneurship education is like other lectures and do not develop an interest in entrepreneurship.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1177/17577438231209389
Reem Jawabreh, Soheil Salha, İpek Danju
Gifted pre-school children are often identified as those who read words, interpret signs, and demonstrate interests of children older than them, and are considered an exceptional group of children compared to other normal children. Therefore, early identification of gifted children helps to provide educational opportunities and a rich environment for the development of their talents. The main purpose of the current study is to examine the teachers’ attitudes in pre-school toward the education of gifted children in Palestine and identify the educational strategies and programs for teaching gifted children. The mixed-methods approach was adopted; it is an approach that mixes qualitative and quantitative methods to gain a deep understanding and confirm outcomes. In this study, the researchers adopted an explanatory sequential design, which is a sequential approach, and it began with quantitative data collection and analysis, followed by qualitative data collection and analysis. The quantitative data were collected by the “Scale for Attitudes towards Gifted Education.” The pre-school teachers in the sample were randomly selected, consisting of 330 female pre-school teachers from public schools. Additionally, the qualitative data were collected by semi-structured interview, which 15 female pre-school teachers from public schools took part in. The quantitative findings indicated that teachers had positive attitudes regarding the education of gifted children. This was consistent with the findings of qualitative data, which also demonstrated the variety of educational strategies and programs that were used to teach gifted children in Palestine.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-23DOI: 10.1177/17577438231200345
Yerkin S Ayagan, Botakoz A Zhekibayeva, Karlygash T Analbekova, Aigul O Mukhametzhanova, Gulpara B Zhukenova
The aim of this study is to investigate and analyse interpersonal communication as a prominent issue in modern educational practice. The authors employed various general scientific research methods including analysis and synthesis, the comparative method, as well as the inductive and deductive approaches. Additionally, a theoretical analysis of relevant research by other scholars was carried out in the final stage of the study. Throughout the research, the authors identified different types of communication and barriers to effective communication. Furthermore, three aspects of a teacher's speech culture were identified. This study explores the educational perspectives within the field of educational science and the emerging scientific concept of educational acmeology in global educational research. The focus on educational acmeology addresses the objective of enhancing teachers' psychological and educational skills, professional competence and the interplay between education and psychology. The findings contribute to the development of professional and scientific relationships among teachers as a result of successful acmeological practices. The practical significance of this research lies in its potential application to examine interpersonal communication as an acmeological problem in contemporary educational settings.
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