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Free Subjectivity in East Asian Past and Present
Asian StudiesThe present special issue of the journal Asian Studies explores the notion of free subjectivity in East Asia, examining its philosophical foundations, historical transformations, and contemporary implications.
Téa Sernelj
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines the experiences of Nigerian cross‐border students in UK higher education, focusing on how colonial legacies continue to shape the interplay between structure and agency. Three key themes emerged in the analysis of the data: First, the persistence of a ‘West is Best’ mentality reflects the internalisation of colonial ...
Jennifer Marshall, Jack Bryne Stothard
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In England, education is compulsory, but schooling is not: it is legal for families to home educate their children. This form of education is officially termed by the Department for Education as ‘Elective Home Education’. As this designation implies, many families home educate as a positive and preferential ‘choice’.
Katherine Davey +3 more
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Antisocial Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) in Britain : contextualizing risk and reflexive modernization
, 2008 This article proposes a (re)consideration of antisocial behaviour control informedby an analysis of the seminal work of sociologists of ‘reflexive modernity’(Beck,1992,1994;Giddens,1990,1991;Lash,1994).It is hoped that the argumentsadvanced within this ...
Donoghue, Jane
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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
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Educational truth telling in a more reflexive modernity
, 2000 Postmodernist and poststructuralist discourses have, in the process of problematising what intellectual work looks like, opened up new spaces in which an examination of the processes of intellectual knowledge production can be located. Our intent in this
Tinning, R +5 more
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Redefining Privacy in Reflexive Modernity: An Intergenerational Research
, 2018 Kodak, Dilge (Arel Author)This study focuses on the historical changes in the concept of privacy-both at the level of the individual and at the level of society. These changes have been evaluated in relation to the question of modernity.
Kodak, Dilge
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Knowing education in Thailand like a global expert organisation: Politics, context and data
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Global expert organisations play increasingly significant roles in the way that education is understood and governed internationally, including by influencing the discourses through which education is conceptualised and shaping norms of what counts as success, failure, progress and the most desirable visions for the future.
Steve Puttick +6 more
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On Beck : risk and sub-politics in reflexive modernity
, 2009 By turning to the work of the German sociologist Ulrich Beck and his concepts of reflexive modernity, risk society, and subpolitics we get a better understanding of the preconditions for public relations as it is practiced in formal organizations.
Fredriksson, Magnus,
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Children's learning increasingly extends into everyday informal settings, but what counts as learning in these contexts remains insufficiently understood. Focusing on family travel as a mobile and socioculturally situated informal learning context, this study adopts a sociocultural perspective and uses liquid learning as a sensitising concept ...
Zhuxian (Zoey) Li +3 more
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