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Apr 30, 2021 · Drawing from years of conversations with educators, this book presents educational change and reform with practicality and relevance to teachers and administrators. Authors focus on the challenges facing adolescents in transition and how school reform can take into account their unique experiences.
- Homeschooling
Homeschooling is the education of a school-aged child at a...
- Disabilities
What really works in special and inclusive education? Using...
- Creativity
General Overviews. Some books take a broad approach to...
- Homeschooling
Living and Learning in Dissimilitude Without Dissonance: Wording Otherness. The processes of globalisation and digitalisation have complicated the traditional understanding of otherness. In an age where all boundaries are relative, being other has become what we all have in common. Consequently, exploring otherness in terms of the proverbial ...
These changes indicate a broader paradigm shift, one charting the formation of a new ontological order marking the advent of the socio-historical epoch, thus far generally referred to as postmodernity.
A new report in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology named the term “educationism” and for the first time found clear evidence for what Fusarelli and many others have long suspected:...
- Equity and Distributive Justice
- Adequacy and The Democratic Threshold
- Intersection of Equity and Adequacy
- Social Recognition
Although distributive justice figures prominently in how we think of financial resources and the fairness with which those resources are available to people, the idea of justice as fairness is also applied to any social goods and division of responsibilities. At the most macrolevel, distributive justice is used as a lens to explore the ways in whic...
Political philosopher Amy Gutmann (1987) posits that educational resources (broadly defined) should be distributed in a way that adequately allows for democratic participation, provides opportunities for people to ultimately pursue a good life (as they conceive it), and supports the opportunity to identify and connect with communities, large and sm...
In practice, we can find examples of both Gutmann’s (1987) Democratic Threshold Principle and Rawls’ (1971) First Principle of A Theory of Justicethroughout attempts by district, state, and federal school funding systems to distribute educational resources and measure their impact on children. The belief that there is some sort of experience that c...
Social justice as recognition is a way of thinking about remedies for injustice that acknowledge how purely distributive approaches may in fact perpetuate oppression by devaluing the ways in which people are different. This is particularly true in the ways the goals of distribution are centered in the dominant frame. According to Cochran-Smith (200...
There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun dissimilitude, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
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Educationally, the Interpretive Turn is aligned with the emergence of Authentic Education. Constructs and discourses associated with the notion of Paradigm Shifts include: Belief Perseverance (Conceptual Conservatism) – the maintenance of a belief, despite empirical evidence and/or rational arguments to the contrary.
