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Problematic Conceptualizations: Allies In Teacher Education For Social Justice, Vonzell Agosto Oct 2010

Problematic Conceptualizations: Allies In Teacher Education For Social Justice, Vonzell Agosto

Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Faculty Publications

This review of the literature on the concept ally and ally identity development was inspired by a qualitative study exploring the identities and social justice values of prospective teachers of color. Although the participants in the original study never used the term ally, their narratives inspired me to characterize them as allies in the struggle for social justice education. However, a review of the literature on allies, as analyzed through critical race theory and critical discourse analysis, revealed emerging conceptualizations of ally as incongruent with minority identities as they position people of color at the periphery of this social justice …


Mother Tongue: A Hot Button Issue, Tan K. B. Eugene May 2010

Mother Tongue: A Hot Button Issue, Tan K. B. Eugene

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Tha intimate link betwen Singapore bilingual policy and the island's political, economic and social fundamentals,influences and constrains the direction of language planning