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Exposing Neoliberalism's Erosion Of Special Education In Ontario Schools, Emily Ellwood
Exposing Neoliberalism's Erosion Of Special Education In Ontario Schools, Emily Ellwood
The Dissertation in Practice at Western University
My positionality as a critical scholar frames the problem of practice. The POP discusses a lack of transparency stemming from a longstanding hierarchy of influence from the ministry of education to local school boards and then to individual schools. A political, economic and social analysis frames the organizational context which impacts my role and agency within the organization. The organization’s worldview, tied to the ministry’s worldview, undermines student experience, as does both organization’s leadership approach. Using a critical bureaucracy and anti-oppressive theory, this organizational improvement plan investigates the physical and bureaucratic barriers that undermine special education student experience. Critical theory …
K-12 Global / International Education: Dancing With ‘Diversity, Democracy, And Social Justice’, Paul Tarc
K-12 Global / International Education: Dancing With ‘Diversity, Democracy, And Social Justice’, Paul Tarc
Education Publications
For more than a century, distinct forms of global/international education have emerged across diverse national and local contexts. Despite their heterogeneity, it is possible to discern some similar features in regards to the larger visions of global/international education as well as to their real-world manifestations finding expression under the larger sweep of Eurocentric modernity. This article takes a conceptual and analytic approach in suturing the vocabularies, aims, practices and challenges of these multiple trajectories of global/international education with specific focus on the tensions arising out of the normative aspirations of teaching for ‘diversity, democracy and social justice’ in the K-12 …