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The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies is a free e-journal published by The Institute for Education Policy Studies (IEPS)

IEPS is an independent Radical Left/ Socialist/ Marxist institute for developing policy analysis and development of education policy. It is at www.ieps.org.uk The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (JCEPS) seeks to develop Marxist and other Left analysis of education.

The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies seeks and publishes articles that critique global, national, neo-liberal, neo-conservative, New Labour, Third Way, postmodernist and other analyses of policy developments, as well as those that attempt to report on, analyse and develop Socialist/ Marxist transformative policy for schooling and education from a number of Radical Left perspectives. JCEPS also addresses issues of social class, 'race', gender, sexual orientation, disability and capital/ism; critical pedagogies; new public managerialism and academic / non-academic labour, and empowerment/ disempowerment. JCEPS welcomes articles from academics and activists throughout the globe. It is a refereed / peer reviewed/ peer juried international journal.

Contact: dave.hill@ieps.org.uk and DAVE6@mdx.ac.uk.


Volume 7, Number 1:
June 2009

Michael Viola
The Filipinization of Critical Pedagogy: Widening the Scope of Critical Educational Theory

Mike Cole
On 'white supremacy' and caricaturing, misrepresenting and dismissing Marx and Marxism: a response to David Gillborn's 'Who's Afraid of Critical Race Theory in Education'

Guy Senese
'Like the Other Kings Have:' a theory of sovereignty and the persistence of inequality in education

Helena Sheehan
Contradictory transformations: observations on the intellectual dynamics of South African universities

Anastasia Liasidou
Critical Policy Research and Special Education Policymaking: A Policy Trajectory Approach

Antoinette Errante
Structure, Agency and Cultural Capital as Control over Knowledge Production in Policy Formation: Mozambique’s Education Sector Strategic Plan

Angela C. de Siqueira
Higher Education Reform in Brazil: Reinforcing Marketization

Pierre W. Orelus
Beyond Political Rhetoric and Discourse: What type of educational, socio- economic, and political change should educators expect of President Barack Obama?

Sara Zamir and Sara Hauphtman
The portrayal of the Jewish figure in Literary Texts Included in the Present Matriculation Curriculum in Hebrew for Students of the Arab Sector in Israel

Phoebe Moore
UK Education, Employability, and Everyday Life

Rebecca A. Goldstein and Andrew R. Beutel
'Soldier of Democracy' or 'Enemy of the State'? The rhetorical construction of teacher through 'No Child Left Behind'

Stephen Philion
Is Race Really Controversial in the University Classroom?

Michelle Early Torregano and Patrick Shannon
Educational Greenfield: A Critical Policy Analysis of Plans to Transform New Orleans Public Schools

Dennis Beach and Margata Carlen
New partnerships – New interests: An ethnographic investigation some of the effects of employer involvement in trade union education

Rodolfo Leyva
No Child Left Behind: A Neoliberal Repackaging of Social Darwinism

Ioannis Efstathiou
Enhancing Students' Critical Awareness in a Second Chance School in Greece: Reality or Wishful Thinking?

Mompati Mino Polelo
The Small State, Markets and Tertiary Education Reform in a Globalised Knowledge Economy: Decoding Policy Texts in Botswana’s Tertiary Education Reform


New IEPS Publications

Equality in the Primary School: Promoting good practice across the curriculum. (2009)
Dave Hill and Leena Helavaara Robertson (eds.)
London: Continuum
Teaching Class: Knowledge, Pedagogy, Subjectivity. (2009)
Deborah Kelsh, Dave Hill and Sheila Macrine (eds.)
London: Routledge.
Contesting Neoliberal Education: Public Resistance and Collective Advance (2009)
Dave Hill (ed.)
London : New York : Routledge
The Rich World and the Impoverishment of Education: Diminishing Democracy, Equity and Workers' Rights (2009)
Dave Hill (ed.)
New York : Routledge
Global Neoliberalism and Education and its Consequences (2009)
Dave Hill and Ravi Kumar (eds.)
New York : Routledge
The Developing World and State Education: Neoliberal Depredation and Egalitarian Alternatives (2009)
Dave Hill and Ellen Rosskam (eds.)
New York : Routledge.

Editorial Advisory Board

Dr Karen Anijar-Appleton - Arizona State University, USA; Prof Jean Anyon - City University New York, USA; Dr Wayne Au - California State University, Fullerton, Califonia, USA; Prof James Avis - University of Huddersfield, UK; Prof Eva Bahovec - University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Grant Banfield - Flinders University, Australia; Prof Len Barton - London University, Institute of Education, UK; Prof Dennis Beach - University College Borås, Sweden; Dr Steve Best - University of Texas at El Paso, USA; Prof Xavier Bonal - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain; Dr Carmel Borg - University of Malta, Malta; Dr Simon Boxley - King Alfred's College, Winchester, UK; Prof Jacky Brine - University of the West of England, UK; Prof Richard Brosio - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA; Dr Paul Carr - Youngstown State University, Ohio, USA; Dr Pratyush Chandra - Radical Notes, Delhi, India; Prof Brenda Cherednichenko - Edith Cowan University, WA, Australia; Prof Mike Cole - Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln, UK; Dr Helen Colley - Manchester Metropolitan University, England; Prof Antonia Darder - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA; Adam Davidson-Harden - Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; Dr Noah De Lissovoy - University of Texas at San Antonio, USA; Gian Carlo Ramos Delgado - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Dr Eoin Devereux - University of Limerick, Ireland; Prof Newton Duarte - UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista (University of Sao Paulo State) Brazil ; Dr Teresa Ebert - University at Albany, SUNY, NY, USA; Dr Fuat Ercan - University of Marmara, Turkey; Dr Ramin Farahmandpur - Portland State University, USA; Prof Gustavo Fischman - Arizona State University, USA; Prof Steve Fleury - Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, USA; Prof David Gabbard - University of East Carolina, USA; Prof Luis Armando Gandin - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil ; Dr Rosalyn George - Goldsmiths College, University of London; Dr Rich Gibson - San Diego State University, USA; Dr Rebecca Goldstein - Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, USA; Nick Grant - Ealing National Union of Teachers, London, UK; Prof Andy Green - London University, Institute of Education, UK; Dr Tom Griffiths - University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia; Dr Barrel Gueye - East Stroudsberg University, Pennsylvania, USA; Prof Ilan Gur-Zeev - University of Haifa, Israel; Dr Julia Hall - D'Youville College, Buffalo, USA; Dr Ted Hankin - Volunteer Advice Worker, Nottingham, UK; Prof Kevin Harris - Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia; Dr Richard Hatcher - University of Central England, UK; Dr Amanda Haynes - University of Limerick, Ireland; Phil Hearse - Editor, International Viewpoint; Prof Pat Hinchey - Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA; Prof Janet Holland - South Bank University, London, UK; Dr Donna Houston - McQuarrie University, Sydney, Australia; Prof David Hursh - University of Rochester, NY, USA; Dr Nathalia Jaramillo - West Lafayette, Indiana, USA; Dr Ken Jones - University of Keele, UK; Dr Samy Joshua - University of Provence, France; Dr Richard Kahn - University of North Dakota, USA; Prof Daniel Kallos - University of Umea, Sweden; Derek Kassem - Liverpool John Moores University, England ; Dr Gianna Katsiampoura - University of Athens, Greece/ National Hellenic Research Foundation; Prof Deborah Kelsh - College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY, USA; Dr Philip Kovacs - University of Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama, USA; Dr Ravi Kumar - Jamia Milia Islamia University, Delhi, India; Ann Lawless - University of South Australia, SA, Australia; Prof Margaret Ledwith - University of Cumbria, England; Prof Samuel Lee - National Pingtung Teachers College, Taiwan; Dr Pepi Leistyna - The University of Massachusetts Boston, USA; Dr Tyson E. Lewis - Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA; Prof Hsi Nancy Lien - National Hualien Teachers College, Taiwan; Dr Pauline Lipman - University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; Prof David W Livingstone - OISE University of Toronto, Canada ; Dr Chris Lubienski - University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, USA; Dr Darren Lund - University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Prof Sheila Macrine - Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, USA; Dr Meg Maguire - Kings College, London University, UK; Alpesh Maisuria - University of Northampton, UK; Prof Henry Maitles - University of the West of Scotland; Dr Curry Malott - Brooklyn College, City University New York, USA; Dr Gregory Martin - University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Prof Sandra Mathison - University of British Colombia, Canada; Dr Uvanney Maylor - University of Bedfordshire, UK; Prof Peter Mayo - University of Malta, Malta; Tristan Mccowan - London Institute of Education and University of Northampton, UK; Radhika Menon - Mata Sundri College, Delhi University, India; Dr Paul Miller - Middlesex University, London, England; Dr Shahrzad Mojab - OISE, University of Toronto, Canada; Dr Aura Mor-Sommerfeld - University of Haifa, Israel; Dr Jane Mulderrig - Lancaster University, England; Dr Fernando Naiditch - Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, USA; Dr Rajani Naidoo - University of Bath, UK; Dr John Naysmith - University of Portsmouth, England, UK; Anthony J. Nocella - Syracuse University, New York, USA; Caroline Okoumunne - University of Greenwich, England, UK; Dr João Paraskeva - University of Minho, Portugal; Dr Nick Peim - University of Birmingham, UK; Dr Dawn Penney - University of Waikato, Hamilton, new Zealand; Dr Jill Pinkney-Pastrana - University of California, Long Beach, USA ; Dr Brad Porfilio - The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, USA; Dr Martin Power - University of Limerick, Ireland; Dr Scott Poynting - Manchester Metropolitan University, England, UK; Dr John Preston - University of London Institute of Education, England, UK; Greg Queen - High School teacher, Warren, Michigan, USA; Dr Helen Raduntz - University of South Australia, Australia; Prof Diane Reay - Cambridge University, UK; Bernard Regan - National Union of Teachers (England and Wales); Dr Mashhood Rizvi - Sindh Education Foundation, Karachi, Pakistan ; Dr Susan Robertson - Bristol University, UK; Dr Cesar Rosatto - University of Texas at El Paso, Texas, USA; Prof E Wayne Ross - University of British Colombia, Canada; Prof Emir Sader - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Prof Anil Sadgopal - Former Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Delhii, India; Dr Amrohini Sahay - Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, USA ; Mitja Sardoc - Educational Research Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Dr Valerie Scatamburlo d'Anibale - University of Wondsor, Ontario, Canada ; Dr Gaetano Senese - Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA; Dr Daniel Shugurensky - Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (OISE/UT), Canada; Prof Angela Siqueira - Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil; Prof Kostas Skordoulis - University of Athens, Greece; Carol Smith - Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln, England, UK; Dr Geri Smyth - University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland; Dr Tourouzou Some - State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA; Neil Southwell - University of Northampton, England, United Kingdom; Prof Shirley Steinberg - McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Prof Juha Suoranta - University of Tampere, Finland; Bill Templer - University of Malaya, Malaysia; Dr Spyros Themelis - Middlesex University, London, England; Prof Sally Tomlinson - Oxford University, UK; Prof Geoff Troman - Roehampton University, England; Salim Vally - University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Prof Kevin Vinson - University of Arizona, USA; Dr Michael Viola - University of California Los Angeles, USA; Dr Paul Warmington - University of Birmingham, England; Dr Mark Webb - University of Greenwich, England, UK; Jo Williams - Victoria University of Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Dr Richard Woolley - Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln, England, UK; Dr Terry Wrigley - Edinburgh University, Scotland;

Editors

Prof Dave Hill
Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Athens, Greece
Middlesex University, London, UK
Visiting Professor of Critical Education Policy and Equality Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland
(Chief/managing Editor and Founding Editor)

Prof Peter McLaren
University of California, Los Angeles, USA (Editor, North America)
Prof Pablo Gentili
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Editor, Latin America)

Editorial Assistant:
Joshua Akehurst

Copy Editor:
Por-Yi Lin
Goldsmiths College, London University, England

Copy Editor:
Arturo Rodriguez
Boise State University, Boise, Indiana, USA

Copy Editor:
Leslee Grey
Queens College, CUNY, New York, USA

Copy Editor:
Melissa Wilson
University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas, USA

Copy Editor:
Duygun Gokturk
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Copy Editor:
Chad Becker
Indiana State University, Indiana, USA

Editorial Advisory Board