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Navarro, Oscar – Curriculum Inquiry, 2018
Since the passing of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), neoliberal policies, such as standardized curriculum, high-stakes tests, accountability measures, school choice, charter schools, value-added models and school privatization have pushed social justice teaching to the margins. As a result, many educators endure demoralization, teach…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Social Justice, Case Studies, Teaching Methods
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Hilferty, Fiona – Curriculum Inquiry, 2007
In this article, I present an analysis of professionalism as defined and enacted by the History Teachers' Association of New South Wales (HTANSW). This analysis was part of a larger doctoral project (2000-2005) in which I employed critical qualitative inquiry to compare and contrast the contribution that two subject teaching associations (science…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Associations, Qualitative Research, Secondary School Teachers
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Plaut, Suzanne – Curriculum Inquiry, 2006
Teachers must gauge students' understandings and confusions. Yet most research about teacher thinking neglects teachers' ideas about confusion and students' perspectives about their interactions with their teacher when they are confused. This study examines two high school English teachers' and six of their students' thinking about confusion,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship, Secondary School Teachers