Multicultural education encompasses theories and practices that strive to promote equitable access and rigorous academic achievement for students from all diverse groups, so that they can work toward social change. As a process of educational reform in PK-12 schools, higher education, and increasingly in out-of-school contexts, multicultural education challenges oppression and bias of all forms...

j 1 he usual clinical features of acute cor pulmonale are pain or a sense of oppression the centre of the chest, peripheral cyanosis or pallor, hypotension, raised jugular f ?.Us pressure and signs related to right ventricular and pulmonary artery dilatation. ^cal electrocardiographic changes occur. /hile pulmonary embolism is a common condition, the proportion of cases in lch cor pulmonale occ...

The oppression that disabled people face is rooted in the economic and social structures of capitalism. Materialist social theory offers disabled people the opportunity to transform their own lives and in so doing to transform the society in which they live into one in which all roles are valued. Oliver, Professor of Disability Studies, University of Greenwich, London, well-known disability rig...

The Germans use the term “Angst” more often than we do. The preposition which goes with it is “vor” (in front (of)): you can have “Angst vor...” (a storm, certain animals, etc.). It implies some imprecision with regard to the subject; when the subject is specified, the expression is Furcht (fear). It is etymologically derived, in the sense of tightness, oppression, from the Indo-European word g...

This essay examines the stereotype that transgender people are “deceivers” and the stereotype’s role in promoting and excusing transphobic violence. The stereotype derives from a contrast between gender presentation (appearance) and sexed body (concealed reality). Because gender presentation represents genital status, Bettcher argues, people who “misalign” the two are viewed as deceivers. The a...

This essay examines the idea of tolerance in our advanced industrial society. The conclusion reached is that the realization of the objective of tolerance would call for intolerance toward prevailing policies, attitudes, opinions, and the extension of tolerance to policies, attitudes, and opinions which are outlawed or suppressed. In other words, today tolerance appears again as what it was in ...

This essay considers emancipation as a purpose for education through considering the theories of Paulo Freire and Jacques Rancière. Both theorists are concerned with the prospect of distinguishing between education that might socialise people into what is taken to be an inherently oppressive society and education with emancipation as a purpose. Galloway reconstructs the theories in parallel exa...

In his paper, "Underwater Women in Shakespeare Films," Charles Ross looks at the film tradition of representing the social oppression of women by scenes submersion, a trope that has its literary roots in the classics, the French Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the novel. Ross argues that unlike classic directors such as Kurosawa, Kozintsev, and Polanski, modern filmmakers not only like to enh...

In this paper, I focus on the representations of Black women in contrast to men found within Frantz Fanon’s philosophical work Skin, White Masks. propose that while racial dialectical is very significant, he often lacks acknowledgment multidimensionality woman’s lived experience specifically. Drawing theory intersectionality, coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw, argue Fanon does not recognize different...