{"title":"Challenging “Dem European Teachings in My African School”: Burna Boy’s Music as Resistance","authors":"Oyemolade Osibodu","doi":"10.1086/722218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722218","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay, I begin by situating Burna Boy’s song “Monsters You Made” within a larger context of music as a rebellious form of resistance while connecting its significance with the #EndSARS protests in Nigeria. Then, I discuss anti-Blackness within colonial education in Nigeria, broadening the global conversation around BLM to include voices from the most populous Black nation in the world.","PeriodicalId":51506,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Education Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44871555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black Lives Matter and the Making of Black Educational Spaces","authors":"J. Bell, Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz","doi":"10.1086/722217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722217","url":null,"abstract":"There is currently a dearth of research on the creation and the implications of Black educational space, even with the increased awareness raised by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement to the individual and structural antiblackness inherent in the United States. This essay aims to share the BLM history that helped to motivate and inform two Black college educators’ construction of Black educational space. The analysis reveals that a pro-Black political imagination is required to authentically and meaningfully engage in centering, supporting, and honoring Black people in classroom spaces and beyond. The article shares reflections from the two educators’ about their experiences of constructing Black educational spaces. In doing so, this work attempts to motivate concrete pro-Black action by disrupting standardized academic practices in making commitments to ourselves, our students, and our communities. This work is significant insofar as it contributes to international debates about the purposes of education, and it reimagines how pedagogy can be operationalized to transform classrooms in global educational contexts into sites for Black Healing.","PeriodicalId":51506,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Education Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49203545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Matter of Black Lives across the Americas: Historical, Transnational, and Educational Perspectives on Antiracist Struggles in Brazil and the United States","authors":"Alice Y. Taylor, C. Gordon, A. Pereira","doi":"10.1086/722031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722031","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the relationship between Black social movements in Brazil and the United States through over a century of formations of struggle. Drawing from a review of Black periodicals in three time periods ranging from twentieth-century print press to contemporary digital social media, this article affirms the significance of the transnational Black struggle; demonstrates the ways in which knowledge and language about Black struggle has been circulated, exchanged, and produced within a dynamic and shifting relationship; and analyzes ways that US and Brazilian Black movements have served as educators for one another and their own societies. We argue that understanding the contemporary moment of antiracist struggles requires examining the longer and nuanced relationship between US and Brazilian Black activism. This deepening, critical relationship fortified the Black movement as educator of society and reframes how we understand the global Movement for Black Lives as a historical and transnational phenomenon.","PeriodicalId":51506,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Education Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43217226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diva’s Culturally Sustaining Black Feminism: Tales from an Afro-Brazilian Teacher-Activist-Mother","authors":"Marla R. Goins","doi":"10.1086/722272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722272","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, the epistemology and pedagogy of an Afro-Brazilian woman named Diva are discussed as a culturally sustaining praxis in the context of the transnational and feminist #BlackLivesMatter movement. Diva works to dismantle white supremacy in her roles as a preschool teacher, doll maker, children’s book author, and mother. Findings come from ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2018 and 2020 that involved collecting narratives and videos, examining artifacts, and developing a continued relationship and solidarity. This article demonstrates a form of Black Brazilian culturally sustaining pedagogy and Black feminism, which can help the field of comparative and international education (CIE) move away from the white gaze toward racial equity, as exemplified by Diva’s praxis.","PeriodicalId":51506,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Education Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46599870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural Considerations in Defining Classroom Quality: Ghanaian Preschool Teachers’ Agreements and Disagreements with Standards-Based Instruments","authors":"S. Wolf, E. Avornyo","doi":"10.1086/722802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722802","url":null,"abstract":"Early childhood education (ECE) programs are expanding across sub-Saharan Africa. But the quality of these programs, and their effectiveness when implemented at scale, remains unclear. Defining quality is not simple, as learning environments are shaped by cultural values and societal sociodemographics. Framed within sociocultural theory, this study broadens understanding of ECE classroom quality by examining whether and how Ghanaian educators foster children’s development in ways that are culturally and contextually adaptive but not included in current definitions of quality, using an existing classroom observation tool as a prompt. ECE teachers and school headteachers participated in semistructured interviews and focused discussions of the most widely used standards-based observation tool—the CLASS—highlighting elements of agreements, disagreements, differences, and key features of the teacher-child relationship not captured by the tool. The findings highlight ways in which the sociocultural and educational contexts need to be considered when measuring classroom quality.","PeriodicalId":51506,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Education Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45359487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Schooling as Plantation: Racial Capitalism and Plantation Legacies in Corporatized Education Reform in Liberia","authors":"T. Hook","doi":"10.1086/722176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722176","url":null,"abstract":"This article merges the frameworks of Black feminist geography, coloniality, and racial capitalism to examine corporatized educational reform in Liberia. It argues that corporatized schooling exhibits the logics, politics, and economies common to the West African plantation. Throughout, I focus on the case of the Liberian Education Advancement Program (LEAP), a recent educational reform, to demonstrate how corporatized schooling (1) perpetuates plantation logics that label communities and geographies in Africa as “in crisis” or “without” and therefore in need of technopolitical solutions; (2) implements racialized, precarious, and surveilled plantation-style labor regimes; and (3) perpetuates production processes and forms of extraction that commodify and homogenize education for the benefit of global capital. By recognizing LEAP as mirroring plantation systems, the article exposes the ongoing racialized violence that lies at the foundation of corporate schooling in Liberia, while highlighting how “thinking with the plantation” can reveal acts and instances of resistance and decolonial life.","PeriodicalId":51506,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Education Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46302416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shareholder Schools: Racial Capitalism, Policy Borrowing, and Marketized Education Reform in Cape Town, South Africa","authors":"Amelia Simone Herbert","doi":"10.1086/722271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722271","url":null,"abstract":"Marketization of education in South Africa accelerated at the crossroads of the postapartheid democratic transition and global neoliberal turn, reflecting both educational policy impacts of the country’s protracted negotiated settlement and transnational trends. A controversial 2018 provincial amendment further entrenched marketization in the Western Cape by introducing “collaboration schools,” public-private partnerships modeled on charter schools from the United States and academy schools from the United Kingdom. This article employs critical policy ethnography to argue that racial capitalism shapes transnational policy borrowing and to illustrate that a perceived portability of marketized reforms rests on racialized notions of the function of schooling for marginalized youth across contexts. I draw on Cedric Robinson’s analysis of capitalism as a ubiquitously racialized, interconnected global order and Neville Alexander’s insistence that antiracism must be anticapitalist, particularly in education, a site and strategy of struggle with dual potential to perpetuate or undermine racial capitalism.","PeriodicalId":51506,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Education Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47146540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psalms of Brick and Mortar","authors":"Donovan Livingston","doi":"10.1086/722033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722033","url":null,"abstract":"As colleges and universities—particularly predominantly White institutions (PWIs)—look to offer healing and reconciliation for racialized transgressions, it is important that these institutions also honor the sacrifices of those brave students who not only broke barriers but also held open the door of opportunity through which others may walk. This commissioned poem was written to honor the first Black women to integrate the residence halls at a PWI in the US South. The poem, in addition to a weekend-long celebration at the university, commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of their milestone, reflecting on the legacy of courage they left behind. As the nation navigates its own racial reckoning, this poem attempts to compel higher education professionals—and institutions of higher education more broadly—to look at their past through a critical lens.","PeriodicalId":51506,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Education Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47962416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black Liberation and Political Education: The Valorizing of Afro-Ecuadorian Thought","authors":"D. Chevannes, Josué López","doi":"10.1086/722032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722032","url":null,"abstract":"Moving beyond the nominal recognition of Black lives toward a struggle for Black liberation raises several challenges, one of which is the critical role of political education. For this reason, this article explores Euromodernity’s constructions and sustenance of apolitical educational arrangements that constrain political speech fundamental to a democratic education. It argues, among other things, that the primacy of capitalist logics in education forecloses salient political questions and the role of racism in sustaining the relationship between exploitative capitalism and schooling. The essay critically examines the unthinking subject as a product of miseducation, and as such, miseducation becomes fundamentally antipolitical and serves as a form of dehumanization. This means repoliticizing education for racial liberation mandates centering Black valuation in educational arrangements. In applied terms, the article offers an examination of participatory action research as an approach to the repoliticization of education.","PeriodicalId":51506,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Education Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60727861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Educational Gradient in Occupational Attainment: Does the Stratification of Education Systems Really Matter?","authors":"Claudia Traini","doi":"10.1086/722957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722957","url":null,"abstract":"Education is one of the most important determinants of occupational attainment, and country-comparative scholars have increasingly focused their attention on the stratification of education systems, that is, the extent to which students are differentiated into different groups for instructional purposes. This article introduces a new microlevel risk ignored by previous theories, that is, the risk of productivity loss. I argue that the criterion guiding the first selection into different schools or curricula within a school reduces skill heterogeneity and employers’ risk of productivity loss, strengthening the link between education and occupation. Data of the European Social Survey are complemented with new indicators of education systems’ characteristics coming from an expert survey that involved more than 200 experts in 34 OECD countries. Findings show that as the first selection is increasingly based on students’ ability, the educational gradient in occupational attainment increases for those respondents who achieved an academic upper-secondary degree.","PeriodicalId":51506,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Education Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43177304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}