Moving the Power-Sharing Debate Forward

Language rights: Moving the debate forward

This article provides an overview of the current issues and challenges facing the nascent paradigm of minority language rights (MLR). It focuses on the theoretical points of dispute and tension with respect to MLR, as well as the challenges attendant upon their implementation in complex, multiethnic and multilingual contexts. The article acknowledges, but also responds to, key critiques of MLR ...

Moving the Debate Forward in Right to Health Litigation

The debate on the judicialization of social and economic rights in general, and the right to health in particular, has been beset by polarization between proand anti-judicialization supporters and lack of empirical data to allow an impartial analysis of the consequences of that growing phenomenon. The type of empirical study carried out by Biehl, Socal, and Amon, entitled “The judicialization o...

Moving Beyond the Privatization Debate

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Moving beyond the GM Debate

Once again, there are calls to reopen the debate on genetically modified (GM) crops. I find these calls frustrating and unnecessarily decisive. In my opinion the GM debate, on both sides, continues to hamper the urgent need to address the diverse and pressing challenges of global food security and environmental sustainability. The destructive power of the debate comes from its conflation of unr...

The Community of Practice in Curriculum Development Is Moving Forward the Debate on Competencies