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Rezai-Rashti, Goli M.; Lingard, Bob – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
This paper focuses on the perspectives of minority/racialized students in urban high schools. It is based on findings of interviews with 85 students in six secondary schools in Toronto and Vancouver, Canada, and in Melbourne, Australia, during 2016-2019. While there has been increasing attention to closing the racial achievement gap and some…
Descriptors: Accountability, Standardized Tests, Minority Group Students, Student Attitudes
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Webb, P. Taylor; Gulson, Kalervo N. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
This article discusses the idea of "difference" in relation to "schools of recognition." The analysis is based on a three-year study that mapped the development of the Africentric Alternative School in the Toronto District School Board. Within, we review the concept of difference and juxtapose it with Gilles Deleuze's concept…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Afrocentrism, African Culture, Nontraditional Education
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Webb, P. Taylor; Gulson, Kalervo; Pitton, Viviana – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2014
The paper argues that neo-liberal education policy has capitalized on a historical concern to care for the self, or the Greek "epimeleia heautou". We discuss "epimeleia heautou" in relation to education policies that emphasize greater choice in curriculum offerings, and in relation to school choice policies more generally.…
Descriptors: School Choice, Educational Policy, Neoliberalism, Equal Education