As teacher identity construction is "a complex matter of the social and individual, of discourse and practice, of reification and participation, of similarity and difference, of agency and structure, of fixity and transgression, of the singular and the multiple" (Clarke, 2009), this study explores the connection between the personal and…

School leaders face "one of the most important opportunities to influence social justice" (Cambron-McCabe & McCarthy, 2005, p. 208), but they cannot do this work alone. Teachers and school leaders must work together with students and families, who play a key role in student success (Epstein et al., 2009; Johnson, 2014). Too often,…

Global shifts in the demographic composition of students has brought to the fore the importance of developing policies and practices that promote intercultural relationships among the diverse students who enroll in universities. One of the challenges students face in universities is integrating into the institutional culture and developing…

The idea of Hip-Hop pedagogy for the classroom is in its third decade of existence. This work began with replacing traditional literary texts with Hip-Hop lyrics for close reading and analysis. However, this also helped to make way for the artists themselves to enter the classroom. Now, Hip-Hop is often seen as an important connection to young…

In a classroom setting, international students must confront continually evolving negotiations of competence, membership, and identity to validate their place in academic discourse. Pervading their efforts for validation, of course, are racialized issues of generalization, stereotype, power, and access. For many, academic socialization goes beyond…

In addition to providing a learning environment that is compatible for all students, tertiary and higher education providers also prepare them for future work--which in the current globalized world is in a multicultural setting. The Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec) in New Zealand, where this study was performed, describes itself as "a…

Reflection is an educative form that encourages thinking and self-analysis, promotes an inquiry-based process, and enables problem-solving. This article focuses on the influence of students' tacit cultural assumptions and understandings in reflection learning. This study developed a context-tailored intervention to guide students' reflection…

For too long, the justification for recruiting teachers of Color (TOCs) has been framed as a demographic and democratic imperative (Achinstein & Ogawa, 2012). As teacher educators of Color and former elementary and secondary (K-12) teachers, the authors argue that the rationale for increasing TOCs moves beyond diversifying a workforce, but…

In this article the author expresses a concern that teacher educators are sending teacher candidates ill-prepared into their classrooms to navigate diversity and to open controversial issues in their own classes. The author calls for the increased inclusion of critical theories in teacher education as an important move, especially when neoliberal…

Peace and conflict studies (PACS) education in recent decades has become a popular approach to social justice learning in higher education institutions (Harris, Fisk, and Rank 1998; Smith 2007; Carstarphen et al. 2010; Bajaj and Hantzopoulos 2016) and has been provided legitimacy through a number of different United Nations (UN) declarations…

This article details the authors' research focusing on the perceptions of Brock University students in relation to the namesake of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock. They discuss militarism in education and detail the use of everyday life theory and semiotic analysis, the latter as theory and methodology. They explore their findings which focus on the…

Significant scholarship exists indicating an increase in militarization within the neoliberal university (see Armitage 2005; Giroux 2008; Giroux 2013), which has transformed the academic institution into "a factory that is engaged in the militarization of knowledge, namely, in the militarization of the facts, information and abilities…

In late 2013, Canada's national newspaper reported that the implementation of Ontario's "differentiation policy framework" was the province's "boldest step yet to compel universities and colleges to make hard choices about how they spend their resources...a draft policy designed to stretch limited provincial dollars by narrowing…

This article explores how successful undergraduate students from marginalized communities or historically disadvantaged backgrounds negotiate their performance within a university environment. It addresses one important question: How did they make their way up the academic ladder in the face of hardship determined by their unique historical…

This research set out to explore what the author interpreted as a interpreted as a pedagogical shortcoming in the intercultural understanding (IU) model of cultural awareness, which prevails in foreign language (FL) education. According to it, fostering intercultural competence (Byram and Gribkova 2002; Deardorff 2009) is often considered one of…