Students for a Democratic Society

Potential students in South Africa cannot afford to pursue higher education, and since 2015, South African graduate students have been protesting to demand for a reduction in school fees. The issue of race and class that has not been addressed for more than two decades in South Africa and matters of efficacy, resources and opportunities has lead people to participate in these protests. Melanie Cervantes is the co-founder of Dignidad Rebelde which is a graphic arts alliance between Cervantes and…

473) Because extremist political movements existed in Turkey and are intent on imposing “their religious symbols and conceptions of a society founded on a religious precept,” the wearing of religious symbols was a threat to pluralism, and therefore to the state. (DRW, p. 474) The upholding of the principle of secularism may be necessary to protect the democratic system in Turkey, and as such, any threat to that principle (like the wearing of religious symbols like the headscarf) threatens…

made English the language of instruction and made primary education free to all the Filipinos. From 1909 to 1930, American educational policy in the Philippines prioritized “industrial education”, which provided manual and vocational training to students. Industrial education focused on commercialization and standardization as a major goal. When industrial education did not work out well, the US shifted its focus to primary education, which put emphasis on literacy and numeracy. The new…

primarily because people rather look for hard despotism (despotisms). The kind of despotism that dictators and authoritarian governments tend to enact. Laws that are not healthy for the societal welfare. That soft despotism Is more acceptable in a Democratic Society. As it's sold as a helping hand type of despotism. This type of despotism in fact takes power away from the people. It's essentially boils down to people giving away their power of self-governance and handing it back to the state.…

The Cause and Effect of Student Protests During the Vietnam War As each year of the war passed, the casualty list got longer and longer and victory seemed further away. Americans, students in particular, could no longer bear the effects the war had on their daily lives. A large aspect of war that propelled the students to resist was the draft. The draft was a system meant to choose people randomly for service, but in reality it chose working class men and African Americans disproportionately…

After the 1994 democratic elections in South Africa, a lot of change has been implemented in attempting to effectively eradicate the apartheid system. Until this present day institutions such as schools, universities and the government continue to implement a system of transformation with the aim of eradicating aspects of racism that continue to surface in people’s everyday lives; work opportunities and education. This essay will particularly focus on assessing the extent of transformation in…

News Story Analysis: Peter O’Connor: Public education is a treasure we must protect it. Education is a site of competing and contested ideas. Numerous educational reforms are being proposed or currently underway. In this news story analysis I will be unpacking and critically examining an article writtin by Peter O’Connor in regards that Public education is a treasure we must protect. The perspective I have chosen to also examine the issue is the Progressive Tradition. In this news story…

In a utopian society, all human beings have the right to liberty, equality and justice, whereas a democratic government secure those vital rights and serve as a social safety net to ensure that every citizen lives as a human being, and not only has the right to a life. The existence of an authority restricts extreme liberty of private property rights, avoids any enforced domination to ensure our personal liberty and democracy. For these reasons, an utopian society should have a government. One…

I do not have fun teaching a lesson then I know my students are not having fun in learning it. I believe that Dr. Brueck sticks true to that too. There have been many different learning tools that he has used throughout his class. A favorite of mine includes an activity called Fishbowl. There is a group of students who are working on a topic and the students who are not in the group are thinking critically about what is being said. Those students respond online where everyone’s statements are…

culture. Pragmatism, existentialism, and Marxism have been quite influential in postmodernism (Knight, 2008). Teachers who are pragmatists provide their students with numerous child-directed, hands-on learning experiences and teachers learn alongside their students (Knight, 2008). Pragmatists believe that reality is constantly changing and that students learn best through applying experiences and thoughts to problem solving (Knight, 2008). Existentialism primarily concerns itself with the…