Neoliberal etiology and educational failure: A critical exploration

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Ajay Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Educational Failure ◽  
Critical Exploration

The livelihood approach: a critical exploration

Erdkunde ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo de Haan
Keyword(s):  
Critical Exploration

Firoz Uncle

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-115
Author(s):  
Sreejith Murali
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social Life ◽  
After School ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Educational Failure ◽  
The World ◽  
Mumbai City

This article focuses on the educational efforts of Syed Firoz Ashraf in the East Jogeshwari area of Mumbai and places his work in the context of the increasing communalisation of social life and education in a poor working class suburb in Mumbai city. Muslim community has been ghettoised in the metropolis to specific areas especially since the riots of 1992-93, increasing their vulnerability. For more than twenty years ‘Uncle’, as he is affectionately called, has been running after-school classes for children from the working class neighbourhoods of Jogeshwari and Juhu Lane. He has worked within the system to enhance opportunities for higher education for children, and to end the humiliation and indignity associated with educational failure. As Uncle says, there is hope as more and more children break out of the confines of their locality and step out into the world through higher education.

The Ties That Bind: Building Civic Capacity for the Tennessee Achievement School District

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 928-964 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua L. Glazer ◽  
Cori Egan
Keyword(s):  
School District ◽  
Market Orientation ◽  
Local Control ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Disadvantaged Students ◽  
Underperforming Schools ◽  
Civic Capacity ◽  
Educational Failure ◽  
Local Political Institutions

The Tennessee Achievement School District (ASD) is among several state-run districts established to turn around underperforming schools. Like other such districts, the ASD removes schools from local control and is not accountable to local political institutions. Despite its authority, the ASD has encountered opposition within Memphis where its schools reside. For those inclined to its market orientation and suspicious of traditional districts, the ASD is an innovative effort to improve outcomes for disadvantaged students. For those that see educational failure in Memphis as the result of social and economic isolation, the ASD appears motivated by profit, paternalism, and racism. A third narrative, largely hidden from view, encompasses people who reject state takeover but seek to confront structural causes of poor performance.

Nussbaum’s philosophy of education as the foundation for human development

Human Affairs ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 328-338
Author(s):  
Vasil Gluchman
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Philosophy Of Education ◽  
General Development ◽  
Philosophical Concept ◽  
Critical Exploration ◽  
Growth Development ◽  
The Individual

Abstract The author of the paper investigates Martha C. Nussbaum’s philosophical concept of education in which education is considered key to all human development. In the first part, the author focuses on some of the more interesting ideas in Nussbaum’s philosophy of education regarding the growth, development and improvement of the individual, community, society, nation, country and humankind. The second part is a critical exploration of the individual in education, looking specifically at the general development of humankind and the shaping of abstract cosmopolitan world citizens, which are the main political goals of Nussbaum’s philosophy of education.

“Boil them Hearts”

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-74
Author(s):  
Jason Redden
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Theoretical Inquiry ◽  
Critical Exploration ◽  
Coastal British Columbia ◽  
Academic Study

This paper addresses the academic conversation on Protestant missions to the Indigenous peoples of coastal British Columbia during the second half of the nineteenth century through a consideration of the role of revivalist piety in the conversion of some of the better known Indigenous Methodist evangelists identified in the scholarly literature. The paper introduces the work of existing scholars critically illuminating the reasons (religious convergence and/or the want of symbolic and material resources) typically given for Indigenous, namely, Ts’msyen, conversion. It also introduces Methodist revivalist piety and its instantiation in British Columbia. And, finally, it offers a critical exploration of revivalist piety and its role in conversion as set within a broader theoretical inquiry into the academic study of ritual and religion.

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