Self-Advocacy and Socially Just Pedagogy

The Struggle for a Socially-just Pedagogy: an ethnographic study of a mathematics classroom

This study is based in a social-constructivist framework, interpreted through the lens of feminist and other emancipatory writing. The researchers combine ethnographic and action research methods to explore the activity of a teacher working in what she views as a ‘constitutively oppressive’ context. The focus is on examining how successful the teacher can be in recognising and valuing a variety...

Empowerment and Self Advocacy

Design and Evaluation of Socially Just Scheduling Policies

Queueing for service occurs in technical applications as well as in common daily life, and scheduling should manage queues in a satisfactory way. Performance metrics are influenced by the service order, thus, scheduling policies should be designed with respect to the main performance metrics of interest. For human customers psychological effects and performance metrics other than delay play a c...

Socially just publishing: implications for geographers and their journals

There have been a range of protests against the high journal subscription costs, and author processing charges (APCs) levied for publishing in the more prestigious and commercially run journals that are favoured by geographers. But open protests across the sector like the ‘Academic Spring’ of 2012, and challenges to commercial copyright agreements, have been fragmented and less than successful....

Pedagogy, Self-Assessment, and Online Discussion Groups

One Master’s Program, Initiatives in Educational Transformation, has integrated a computer management system (WebCT) into a learner-centered (Weimer, 2002) community of K–12 practicing teachers. Online discussions were an extension of instructional practices that supported dialogue, reflection, and self-assessment for the purpose of continuous professional improvement and facilitating independe...