/library/oar/handle/123456789/36532 Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:49:09 GMT 2025-12-26T22:49:09Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/19806 Title: Introduction to Postcolonial Directions in Education, Vol. 3 No. 1 Editors: Hickling-Hudson, Anne; Mayo, Peter; Raykov, Milosh Abstract: The Editorial team of the Postcolonial Directions in Education (PDE) online journal welcomes this special issue, Vol. 3 No. 1, guest-edited by Dr. Nisha Thapliyal of the University of Newcastle, Australia. The special issue explores a crucial concern for education: the relationship between learning, knowledge and collective action for social transformation. It is all the more important for scholars of education to research and write about this, given today’s context of a sustained neo-liberal current in which individualism and privatisation are being promoted above notions of social responsibility for the collective good. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/19806 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/19717 Title: A little bit of my story in the landless struggle Authors: Witcel, Elisabete; Thapliyal, Nisha Abstract: In this article Elisabete Witcel gives a brief account of her 25 years of experience as a member of the 'Movimento dos Trabalhadores sem Terra' (Landless Workers' Movement). Witchel also discusses her tough childhood and growing up as daughter of landless workers from the northwest region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in the border region between Brazil and Argentina. Description: Original article was written in Portuguese by Elisabete Witcel and translated to English by Nisha Thapliyal.; Abstract in Portuguese by Elizabete Witcel included. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/19717 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/19703 Title: A pedagogy of resistance : reflections on a critical approach to teaching in comparative and international education Authors: Klees, Steven J. Abstract: We always share our research but rarely share our teaching. Doing so is just as important. In this paper, I focus on three courses I teach regularly in Comparative and International Education, two for the past ten years and one for almost forty years at two universities in the USA: political economy of education and development; alternative education, alternative development; and modes of inquiry. I reflect on why I like what I have done with them, as well as areas of dissatisfaction. My approach to education in these courses is shaped by three basic principles: fair debate, understanding different viewpoints, and creating a safe space and climate in the classroom. My goal is to try to develop courses that resist simplistic explanations of individual failure and the triumph of the market system and, instead, offer students the opportunity to explore alternative explanations and discourses. Description: Abstract in Portuguese by Steven Klees included. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/19703 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/19702 Title: Activist research for education and social movement mobilization Authors: Choudry, Aziz Abstract: The role of social movements and social and political activism as educative processes and milieus is often overlooked by scholars of social movements and those working in the field of adult education. Yet social movements are not only significant sites of struggle for social and political change but also important – albeit contested and contradictory- terrains of learning, knowledge production and research. Grounded in insights from the author’s longstanding involvement in multi-scalar social movement organizing, education and research, this article draws primarily from his current research on activist research practice in social movements and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) which work closely with them. It traces the dialectical relations between informal and non-formal learning and education in social action, research, education and action. Drawing on interviews conducted in 2012-2013 in the Philippines, South Africa, Canada and the UK, the article focuses on the ways in which research is carried out by movement research activists “in the struggle”, located outside of university institutional contexts or partnerships. Emphasizing the social character of all knowledge production, it argues that everyday struggles are not only the means to build movements, alliances, and counter-power but are generative of, and in turn informed by the learning/knowledge aspects of this activity. Description: Abstract in Portuguese by Aziz Choudry included. Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/19702 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z