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Becoming Activist: Collaboratively Documenting the Critical Literacy Praxis of Urban Youth Organizers [PDF]

, 2014
This research study explores the critical literacy praxis of five urban youth organizers. As a literacy study, this research answers two central questions: How do urban youth organizers engage in critical literacy praxis as they become activists?
Bishop, Elizabeth M
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Between soft power and suspicion: Chinese international students as diasporic actors in U.S.‐China geopolitical tensions

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
wiley   +1 more source

The Woman Activist, An Action Bulletin for Women's Rights, 1971-07-15

, 1971
An excerpt from The Woman Activist, An Action Bulletin for Women's ...

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What is a curriculum for life? Using youth participatory action research and applied arts to understand and amplify undergraduate students', children's and young people's mental health and wellbeing recommendations for education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Mental health is a critical issue globally, with young people being one of the most affected groups. Young people have campaigned vehemently for a ‘curriculum for life,’ arguing that their education is failing to meet their needs (British Council, 2022).
Lisa Stephenson, Helen Young
wiley   +1 more source

The prison houses of knowledge: activist scholarship and revolution in the era of “globalisation”

, 2009
The rise of new social movements has produced an emerging discourse on activist scholarship. There is considerable ambiguity about what the term means.
D'Souza, R.
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Review of Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds by Arseli Dokumacı (Duke University Press)

Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds by Arseli Dokumacı builds upon theories of affordances through the concept of “activist affordances,” which describes the “performative microacts/-arts through which disabled ...
Emalee Crews
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English teachers' journeys since the 2020 Iteration of Black Lives Matter

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The 2020 resurgence of Black Lives Matter (BLM) mobilised students in England to demand greater representation of racially minoritised voices in English curriculums—a call highlighted by stark inequity: just 1.5% of GCSE texts studied are by racially minoritised authors, despite racially minoritised students comprising 38.0% of the student ...
Adrian Fernandes
wiley   +1 more source

Action, Passion, Crises

Humanities, 2017
The title of this speech is taken from a remark of the renowned Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr: “When we were young our hearts were touched with fire...[and as]...life is action and passion, it is required of [one] that [one] should share the passion and ...
Denis Goldberg
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Activist Afterlives

Contains fulltext : 326886.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Erbil, Duygu, Vlessing, Clara
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“Its Not Just About the Films”: Activist Film Festivals in Post New Order Indonesia

, 2016
This essay makes new examinations of the cultural changes that have occurred in Indonesia since the end of the New Order (1998) by exploring the role of activist film festivals in imagining and enacting social change.
Crosby, AL
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