Identity, Knowledge, Power, and Educational Reform

2 Educational Reform

Identity and Politics in School Reform Research

Keywords, JEL Codes GEORGE AKERLOF AND RACHEL KRANTON (2002) START WITH a question: Why do schools with similar resources produce such widely varying outcomes? Why is it that schools with similar class sizes, for example, produce highly varied levels of student learning? Quoting one of their own referees, Akerlof and Kranton note that “economists do not have good models for explaining why schoo...

Educational Reform and Current Education Initiatives

Fraternity and Educational Reform in Latin America

The author proposes that in a democratic society, education serves to establish fundamental relationships of fraternity, generating the “social capital” that bonds citizens together. Against this perspective, he examines the cultural values transmitted in the educational systems of six Latin American countries. He finds that following world-wide trends, the curricula have shifted from privilegi...

Effectiveness of Identity-based Psychodrama Educational-therapeutic Program on Identity Styles and Neuroticism

Background: Neuroticism is one of the serious mental health problems of people. No study has been conducted on the impact of identity issues in the treatment of neurotic people. Objectives: This study aims to formulate, design, and investigate the effect of identity-based psychodrama educational program on identity styles and neuroticism. Materials & Methods: This research was a quasi-experim...