International Journal of Educational Policy, Research and Practice articles from January 1 2006

International Journal of Educational Policy, Research and Practice archives from January 1 2006

International Journal of Educational Policy, Research, and Practice: Reconceptualizing Childhood Studies mission statement.
January 1, 2006... The International Journal of Educational Policy, Research and Practice (IJEPRP): Reconceptualizing Childhood Studies is available in print form to an audience of researchers and practitioners in the field of education. IJEPRP seeks to publish...

Social policy, education, and childhood in dangerous times: revolutionary actions or global complicity.
January 1, 2006... The first issue by the new editors of the International Journal of Educational Policy, Research, & Practice: Reconceptualizing Childhood Studies is designed to (1) introduce the reader to a focus that emphasizes the international movement that...

A post-monolingual education.(United States)
January 1, 2006... In a colonial context education reproduces the power of the colonizers and is designed to serve their needs. The colonizer purposefully ignores the culture and history of subjugated groups nor are they consulted. Subjugated children are never...

Dismantling the imperialist discourse shadowing Mexican immigrant children.
January 1, 2006... The purpose of this paper is to dismantle the political, public, and private discourse that has led to a dehumanization of immigrants, specifically children of immigrants. Local examples will focus mainly on the state of Arizona and the Sonoran...

Postcolonial technologies of power: standardized testing and representing diverse young children.
January 1, 2006... The words "after 9/11, the world changed" have been reiterated, with different meanings and in different contexts, by diverse groups of people. Recognizing the fact that the people for whom the world seems to have changed the most have probably...

Autonomous children, privileging negotiation, and new limits to freedom.
January 1, 2006... Introduction Recently, scholars have introduced what has been called a 'new paradigm,' pleading to view children as competent social actors (e.g., James & Prout, 1997; James, Jenks & Prout, 1998; Wyness, 2000). They reconsider social...

Contemporary public policy influencing children and families: "compassionate" social provision OR the regulation of "others"?
January 1, 2006... Critical analysis of change in public policy within and across nations recognizes that the education and welfare of children, families, and all citizens is intertwined with economics, politics, and cultural discourse(s). In the United States,...

Racialization in early childhood: a critical analysis of discourses in policies.
January 1, 2006... Introduction A large portion of the early childhood literature in the area of cultural, racial, and linguistic diversity addresses the practices of institutions for young children, immigrant/refugee parents' understandings of their...

Discourses of the good early childhood educator in professional training: reproducing marginality or working toward social change.
January 1, 2006... Canadian sociologists and educational researchers characterize the Ontario early childhood education workforce as economically, socially, and politically marginalized and part of a secondary labour market. Although a number of reasons for this...

Early childhood institutions as loci of ethical and political practice.
January 1, 2006... Institutionalisation of Childhood: Possibilities and Risks We are at a historical moment where it becomes urgent to raise the question: What are the possibilities for institutions created for children and young people? The historical...

Epilogue: actions for dangerous times.(public policy)
January 1, 2006... Contemporary public policy actions call for an increase in research that is critically analytic, and for the sharing of public policy knowledges globally. Questions must be constructed regarding power and materiality, assumptions about people...