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‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
wiley   +1 more source

“The purpose of activism is to educate”: Young people's climate activism as and for education in the youth strike movement in England

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract By skipping school for their cause, young climate strikers repeatedly demonstrated their priorities in 2019 and 2020. They regularly chose to sacrifice a day of their formal education in favour of collective action. This study asks what we can learn from the reflections of former youth strikers.
Loz J. Hennessy
wiley   +1 more source

Nieposłuszeństwo obywatelskie a państwo demokratyczne [PDF]

, 2014
The aim of this article is to present the complex issue of civil disobedience in the democratic state. The authors pay attention to the fact that ineffectiveness may lay the foundation for civil disobedience.
Gadkowski, Aleksander, Różański, Krzysztof, Sokołowski, Łukasz   +2 more
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Youth activism in Poland: Perceptions, participation and diverging perspectives from young people and activists

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent years have seen a growing scholarly interest in youth activism (YA), a phenomenon often viewed as a positive development in response to declining civic and political engagement among young people. However, most of the research focuses on the activists themselves and gives less attention to how YA is perceived by the broader youth ...
Martyna Elerian, Miri Yemini, Katarzyna Jasikowska   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Section 155 of the Spanish Constitution. The Order of the Spanish Senate of 27th of October, 2017.

Revista de Derecho Político, 2018
: Section 155 of the Spanish Constitution regulates federal coercion by means of a text inspired in section 37 of the Fundamental Law of Bonn, although the former presents some important differences, especially due to the different electoral ...
José María Lafuente Balle
doaj   +1 more source

Dumbledore’s army: civil disobedience in “Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix”

Anamorphosis, 2020
This paper explores the connection between law and literature, considering the concept of civil disobedience as developed in the plot of the novel Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Arthur Emanuel Leal Abreu, Alexandre de Castro Coura   +1 more
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Does education policy affect teachers' learning needs? An international comparison of trends in teachers' continuing professional learning needs in secondary schools in Australia, England, Japan and the Netherlands

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Education policy changes are believed to influence teachers' continuing professional learning (CPL) needs, but there is limited empirical evidence to support these claims. This lack of deep understanding has significant practical implications. This study used a new circular conceptual framework to analyse teachers' CPL needs. Leveraging public
Rikkert M. van der Lans, Remmert Daas, Joost Jansen in de Wal, Elaine Wilson, Noriyuki Inoue, Tracy L. Durksen, Frank Cornelissen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Justifying Prison Breaks as Civil Disobedience [PDF]

, 2019
I argue that given the persistent injustice present within the Prison Industrial Complex in the United States, many incarcerated individuals would be justified in attempting to escape and that these prison breaks may qualify as acts of civil disobedience.
Shur, Isaac
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The Impact of Carbon Pricing on Corporate Sustainability: Evidence From the European Union

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The European Union (EU) has played a leading role in the fight against climate change. One mechanism used to meet the targets for global greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions is carbon pricing. A prominent example is the EU Emissions Trading System (EU‐ETS).
C. José García, Begoña Herrero, Francisco Morillas‐Jurado   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cosmopolitan disobedience [PDF]

Journal of International Political Theory, 2019
Increasingly, protests occur across borders and are carried out by non-nationals. Many of these protests include elements that break the laws of their host country and are aimed at issues of global concern. Despite the increasing frequency of transnational protest, little ethical consideration has been given to it. This article provides a cosmopolitan
openaire   +2 more sources