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the anti-immigrant backlash since the late 1970s has led to specific policies that have outlawed bilingual education. At times, the bigots behind this backlash have used attacks on bilingual education to inch their cause into the political mainstream, thereby shifting the general political climate further to the right.
Education and Capitalism
Sarah Knopp;Jeff Bale
Holism asserts that any hierarchy of influence of spheres in a particular society is something that must be empirically demonstrated in particular historical situations. It doubts that all societies even have hierarchies of influences, and it denies that the existence of a fixed hierarchy in one society demonstrates or implies the existence of the same hierarchy in another.
Liberating Theory
Michael Albert, Holly Sklar
So to be consciously aware in Vygotsky’s framing is to be thinking about your thinking, be systematically conscious of your consciousness. Lenin characterized workers’ class consciousness in much the same way; __for workers may have been upset about everyday work conditions—hence the unplanned “riots”—but they did not necessarily exhibit a meta-understanding of their own consciousness in systematic relation to Russian economic, political, and social structures.__ Lenin saw them reacting based on their everyday concepts or conditions, rather than applying a more systematized, strategic, “scientific” analysis to their actions.
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
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