Ceará
in Occupying Schools, Occupying Land
August 2019; p ublished online June 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Sociology of Education; Social Movements and Social Change; Political Sociology. 14459 words.
Chapter 6 analyzes the MST’s engagement with public schools in Ceará in the late 2000s, in a very different context, when the movement’s educational initiatives are already recognized...
Go to » abstract
Celebrating Diversities
in J. Krishnamurti and Educational Practice
October 2018; p ublished online July 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Sociology of Education. 13120 words.
Previously, scholars who have extensively researched inclusion have argued that some schools, under the shroud of being inclusive, are inherently and discreetly exclusionary. Following...
Go to » abstract
Child-Centred Learning in Praxis
in J. Krishnamurti and Educational Practice
October 2018; p ublished online July 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Sociology of Education. 12611 words.
Placing the larger concepts of MGML, the notions of child-centred learning and key ideas of J. Krishnamurti on education at the centre of analysis, this chapter documents the translation of...
Go to » abstract
Conclusion
in Occupying Schools, Occupying Land
August 2019; p ublished online June 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Sociology of Education; Social Movements and Social Change; Political Sociology. 8650 words.
The Conclusion reflects on the significance of the MST’s educational initiatives for understanding states, social movements, and education. The chapter revisits the theoretical claims in...
Go to » abstract
Contextual Challenges for Primary School Education
in J. Krishnamurti and Educational Practice
October 2018; p ublished online July 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Sociology of Education. 12853 words.
This chapter attempts to explore the relevance of Mono-grade methodology for teaching-learning processes in primary schools, considering their contextual and spatial specificities. The...
Go to » abstract
Curricular Concerns and Practices in a Krishnamurti School
in J. Krishnamurti and Educational Practice
October 2018; p ublished online July 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Sociology of Education. 10960 words.
The chapter is an attempt to coherently weave the observations from brief fieldwork conducted in two unique settings to make inquiries into curriculum practices and its production. It...
Go to » abstract
Epilogue
in Occupying Schools, Occupying Land
August 2019; p ublished online June 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Sociology of Education; Social Movements and Social Change; Political Sociology. 7016 words.
The Epilogue reflects on the future of the MST’s political struggle—and that of the Brazilian left more broadly—in the context of the 2016 ousting of the Workers’ Party (PT) from the...
Go to » abstract
Free Speech and the University
in What Snowflakes Get Right
December 2019; p ublished online October 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Sociology of Education. 14711 words.
This first chapter identifies two problems with free speech in the college context. First, free speech creates a conflict when it interferes with the equality guarantees legally mandated...
Go to » abstract
Free Speech Is Rooted in Equality
in What Snowflakes Get Right
December 2019; p ublished online October 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Sociology of Education. 5470 words.
This chapter places Frederick Douglass in the pantheon of America’s Founding Fathers because the orator, statesman, and former slave exercised his natural right to free speech without...
Go to » abstract
From Skokie to Charlottesville
in What Snowflakes Get Right
December 2019; p ublished online October 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Sociology of Education. 4939 words.
This chapter argues that the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, in summer 2017, present a watershed moment when the general public realized that free speech can become weaponized to...
Go to » abstract
From the Pedagogy of the MST to Educação do Campo
in Occupying Schools, Occupying Land
August 2019; p ublished online June 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Sociology of Education; Social Movements and Social Change; Political Sociology. 18549 words.
Chapter 3 shows how the institutionalization of movement goals can sometimes look like a process of social movement absorption. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the MST’s local...
Go to » abstract
Going beyond the Self1
in J. Krishnamurti and Educational Practice
October 2018; p ublished online July 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Sociology of Education. 9739 words.
This chapter is a study of the efforts of Rishi Valley Institute for Educational Resources (RIVER) to transform teacher education in India; it explores the aims, intents and structure of...
Go to » abstract
Insight through Awareness
in J. Krishnamurti and Educational Practice
October 2018; p ublished online July 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Sociology of Education. 9284 words.
For over fifty years, Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) spoke on a wide array of topics, but primarily directed his teachings at the problem of human suffering. He taught that all conflict is...
Go to » abstract
Introduction: Education and the Long March through the Institutions
in Occupying Schools, Occupying Land
August 2019; p ublished online June 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Sociology of Education; Social Movements and Social Change; Political Sociology. 12966 words.
The Introduction presents the basic goals of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement’s agrarian reform struggle and explains how its educational proposal is part and parcel of achieving...
Go to » abstract
J. Krishnamurti and Educational Practice
October 2018; p ublished online July 2019 .
Book. Subjects: Sociology of Education. 404 pages.
First in the series on Education and Society in South Asia, this volume focuses on the educational thought of a world-renowned teacher, thinker, and writer—Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986)....
Go to » abstract
Krishnamurti, Values, and Education
in J. Krishnamurti and Educational Practice
October 2018; p ublished online July 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Sociology of Education. 14499 words.
The chapter provides the context in which J. Krishnamurti and his work may be understood today. Krishnamurti’s relevance in our understanding of the contemporary human condition when humans...
Go to » abstract
Krishnamurti’s Dialogue as Being Open to the ‘Other’
in J. Krishnamurti and Educational Practice
October 2018; p ublished online July 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Sociology of Education. 5596 words.
In this chapter, an attempt has been made to reflect on some central questions of education, such as knowing, knowledge, knower, and the relationship between the educator and the educand....
Go to » abstract
Multigrade Instruction at Rishi Valley and Neel Bagh
in J. Krishnamurti and Educational Practice
October 2018; p ublished online July 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Sociology of Education. 7860 words.
Recent surveys of the education scenario in India’s countryside highlight the fact that within a single classroom student learning levels vary greatly. Multigrade classrooms, i.e....
Go to » abstract
Occupying Schools, Occupying Land
August 2019; p ublished online June 2019 .
Book. Subjects: Sociology of Education; Social Movements and Social Change; Political Sociology. 392 pages.
Contrary to the conventional belief that social movements cannot engage the state without becoming co-opted and demobilized, this study shows how movements can advance their struggles by...
Go to » abstract
Pedagogical Experiments in the Brazilian Countryside
in Occupying Schools, Occupying Land
August 2019; p ublished online June 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Sociology of Education; Social Movements and Social Change; Political Sociology. 18230 words.
Chapter 1 analyzes the pedagogical experiments that MST activists developed in the Brazilian countryside in the 1980s and 1990s. In the early 1980s these educational experiments were...
Go to » abstract