/library/oar/handle/123456789/39062 Special issue: Education resistance: Activist media in struggles for public education 2025-12-26T17:09:47Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/57639 Title: Postcolonial Directions in Education : volume 7 : issue 2 Editors: Hickling Hudson, Anne; Mayo, Peter; Raykov, Milosh; Thapliyal, Nisha Abstract: Table of contents: 1/ THAPLIYAL, N. - #Education/resistance : activist media in struggles for public education -- 2/ WALLER, L., MCCALLUM, K., & GORRINGE, S. - Resisting the truancy trap : indigenous media and school attendance in 'remote' Australia -- 3/ THAPLIYAL, N. - Resisting educational privatisation on screen : a critical analysis of two activist documentaries from India and the USA -- 4/ MONTERO, L., CABALIN, C., & BROSSI, L. - Alto al SIMCE : the campaign against standardized testing in Chile -- 5/ SALTER, L. - An ethical populism in education struggles : the media campaigns of the NZEI teacher union -- 6/ MALCHER, C. - The Internet is teacher union business : a report about the New South Wales teachers federation -- 7/ GODL, D. - Conference report : global challenges : borders, populism and the postcolonial condition [14-16 June, 2018, Linnaeus University, Vaxjo (Sweden)] -- 8/ MONTEFIORE, G. - Problematising research in/for the global south : the power/knowledge nexus : a globed summer school report. 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/39301 Title: Problematising research in/for the global south : the power/knowledge nexus : a globed summer school report Abstract: The GLOBED Summer School marks every year the halfway of the 2-year journey of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Education Policies for Global Development (GLOBED). Developed by the consortium of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, University of Malta, and University of Oslo, with the participation of the University of Amsterdam, this itinerant European Master degree focuses on issues of education and development through the lens of globalisation and from a sociological perspective. The Summer School, organised by the University of Malta, this year took place on the island of Gozo (the second most inhabited island in the archipelago that constitutes the Republic of Malta) over the third week of June. 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/39196 Title: Resisting educational privatisation on screen : a critical analysis of two activist documentaries from India and the USA Authors: Thapliyal, Nisha Abstract: The assault on public education in India and the USA has been facilitated by a powerful assemblage of proprivatisation corporate media. Representations of education in news and popular culture media tend to harp on two themes -– a public education system in crisis, and, relatedly, the private or corporate business sector as the only viable savior. Two recent activist documentary films present a counter-narrative to this discourse – ‘We shall Fight, We shall Win’ (India) and ‘An Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman’ (USA). This paper analyses the situated ways in which education activists use the medium of documentary film to contest dominant media representations of the benefits of educational privatisation. These activist narratives in defense of public education provide insights into how progressive education struggles are essentially cultural struggles. 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/39195 Title: Alto al SIMCE : the campaign against standardized testing in Chile Authors: Montero, Loreto; Cabalin, Cristian; Brossi, Lionel Abstract: This article describes the Alto al SIMCE (Stop SIMCE) campaign which aims to end the national standardized tests in Chile. In the context of the mobilizations for education in Chile, this campaign was successful in publicly and massively questioning the most used evaluative instrument in one of the most neoliberal educational systems in the world. The strategy of this action group was characterized by a strong criticism of the negative consequences of the test. It also intensively used digital social networks to break the information siege in the country. Our analysis states that Alto al SIMCE took advantage of contingency and generated alliances with the student movement in order to achieve government and media recognition. In this sense, the campaign made visible the strength of the resistance against the current educational system in the country, where new social media played a fundamental role, re-framing the discussion about the quality of education. However, the lack of human and economic resources prevented the development of Alto al SIMCE into a more active media campaign, capable of ending the SIMCE test. 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z