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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

The (Unrealized) Promise of School-to-Work Education: Assessing the Impact of the School-to-Work Opportunites Act of 1994 on Low-Income and Minority Students [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 (STWOA) encouraged schools across the country to implement educational curricula that explicitly linked the worlds of school and work.
Javian, Aaron
core  

National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gaps in Transgender Medicine Content Identified Among Canadian Medical School Curricula

open access: yesTransgender Health, 2016
Purpose: The transgender community is a diverse group that requires unique consideration in the healthcare setting. However, several studies have suggested that their needs are not currently being met by our medical system.
B. Chan, Rachel Skocylas, J. Safer
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sign of the Times

open access: yesNordic Journal of Comparative and International Education
This paper discusses the significance of school curricula in reflecting societal priorities and needs, focusing on the incorporation of computational thinking (CT) in Nordic national curricula.
Katarina Pajchel   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

School environment factors were associated with BMI among adolescents in Xi'an City, China

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2011
Background School environment influences students' behaviours. The purpose of this research was to identify school environment factors associated with BMI.
Dibley Michael J, Li Ming, Yan Hong
doaj   +1 more source

Considering an Overhaul to the New Principal Preparation Program [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Levine (2005) argued that university principal preparation programs for educational leaders are failing to provide a suitable curriculum to prepare aspiring principals to demonstrate the skills and competencies necessary to meet the challenges inherent ...
Oliveras-Ortiz, Yanira, Vaughn, Vance
core   +1 more source

World Literatures in Secondary School Curricula in Iran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In his article World Literatures in Secondary School Curricula in Iran Massih Zekavat argues that the inclusion and teaching of works of world literature is significant at the secondary school level because it introduces students to a dialogic and ...
Zekavat, Massih
core   +4 more sources

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

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