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Neoliberalism And Kazakhstan's Emerging Higher Education Sysytem, Nazgul Bayetova
Neoliberalism And Kazakhstan's Emerging Higher Education Sysytem, Nazgul Bayetova
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The Republic of Kazakhstan is one of the Central Asian countries of the former Soviet Union (USSR). The Kazakh Social Soviet Republic's Supreme Court declared the transition from a planned economy to a market economy in the early 1990s. The new market model in Kazakhstan has had a significant impact on its evolving higher education system. Less government spending and the creation of private universities in Kazakhstan were the core strategies that have been implemented under the neoliberal policies (Sabzalieva, 2017; Sagintayeva & Kurakbayev, 2015; Smirnova, 2014; Smolentseva, 2012; Smolentseva, Huisman, & Froumin, 2018). This study’s central question is how …
The Activations Of Activism: An Ethnography Of Emotional Management, Gerson Sanchez
The Activations Of Activism: An Ethnography Of Emotional Management, Gerson Sanchez
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this ethnography is to explore cultural context of college student activism, especially as it relates to identity. Much has been said about student activism in the higher education literature, but this literature has two major problems: first, it presupposes a pre-cursive existence of identity, and, second, it disconnects meaning-making from action. With regard to the first problem, activism scholars tend to take categories such as race, class, gender, and sexuality as given, thus reducing individuals to biological differences for the purposes of study. Instead of questioning how identities are created and constructed, such studies presuppose markers of …
Expanding Representations For Historical Content In Literacy, Samuel Dejulio, James R. King, Norman A. Stahl
Expanding Representations For Historical Content In Literacy, Samuel Dejulio, James R. King, Norman A. Stahl
Literacy Practice and Research
In spite of the need for literacy educators to possess an understanding of the history of the field, such historical perspectives are often absent in current programs, even at the graduate level. Fortunately, embedding history in programs and courses can be done in a variety of meaningful, engaging, and simple ways. In this article we present and describe several approaches for instructors who want to embed or even expand history into current literacy courses. We organize these approaches into three areas: Inquiry-based learning, dramatic structures, and humanistic approaches.