Alan Sears
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 136477 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alan Sears |
| NOMBRES | Alan |
| APELLIDO | Sears |
| FIRMA | SEARS A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of New Brunswick |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7610-9000 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 141 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Building Transformation from Below
Mary Jo Nadeau was the theorist and practitioner of a mode of transformative politics oriented around mobilizing in ways that build power from below. She contributed to building a Palestine Solidarity movement in the Canadian state around the call from Palestinian civil society organizations for a campaign of boycott, divestment, and sanctions of Israeli institutions. Her activist practice modelled a politics of solidarity from below that was str…
Zachary Schrag, The Princeton Guide to Historical Research
The Arts and the Teaching of History
EU Personal Data Protection in Policy and Practice
This book focuses on the protection of personal data which is compared for eight EU member states, namely France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Romania, Italy, Sweden and the Netherlands, and provides in-depth insights into how different countries deal with data protection issues
Anticapitalismo queer
Lésbicas e gays estão prestes a conquistar a cidadania plena no Canadá e em vários países da Europa. Isso representa uma mudança notável, trinta e cinco anos depois do início do movimento contemporâneo pela libertação homossexual iniciado pelos motins de Stonewall. Essas conquistas são produto de um movimento social cuja história é fortemente marcada pela mobilização militante. Simultaneamente, o processo de reestruturação do capitalismo abriu es…
Education, Globalization and the Nation
Key Contexts and Challenges
A quarter century ago, Benedict Anderson (1991) published what came to be a seminal book on understanding nationalism and nation states, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism . Anderson argued that nations were not primarily bounded territories but ‘imagined communities’, created in the mind and heart through the mediation of a number of institutions and processes including schools, public monuments and histor…
Beating Time in the Slow Movements
Daniel Bensaïd was prominent among the revolutionary thinkers and activists who emerged from the mass insurgency of the 1960s, a period in which anti-capitalist organisers had genuine social weight grounded in connections to broad layers of the working class and radical movements. As the neoliberal offensive developed, working-class and allied movements experienced crucial defeats that marginalised anti-capitalist theory and practice. Bensaïd dev…
Situating Sexuality in Social Reproduction
The years since the rise of gay liberation in 1969 have seen remarkable changes in the realm of sexuality. Lesbians and gay men have won important rights and attained a cultural visibility that would have been impossible to imagine even thirty years ago. Yet these rights are limited, and apply only to specific sections of those who face exclusion, discrimination or violence on the basis of their queerness in the realm of gender and/or sexuality
The Age of Acquiescence
Reviewed by: The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power by Steve Fraser Alan Sears Steve Fraser, The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power (New York: Little, Brown and Company 2015) Labour historian Steve Fraser has written a book that addresses one of the central issues of our era, the combination of sharp and ever-increasing social polar…
Education, extremism and terrorism
In early July 2005 I was attending the First Citized International Conference at the University of Toronto in Canada when London was rocked by the so-called 7/7 subway and bus bombings. A significa
Faith in Education
of a Pope in almost 600 years.The morning after the announcement, I was scheduled to teach my undergraduate social studies teaching methods course and thought this was a good time to raise the issue of how to make substantive use of emerging current events in the classroom.It was, I thought, a teachable moment.Shortly after raising the question of how history and social studies teachers might take up the Pope's decision and its implications, I wa…
Globalization, the Nation-State and the Citizen
Section A: Introduction 1. The Forming of Citizens in a Globalising World Alan Reid, Judith Gill and Alan Sears Section B: Case Studies 2. In Whose Interest? Australian Schooling and the Changing Contexts of Citizenship Alan Reid and Judith Gill 3. Education, Citizenship and the Construction of a New Democracy in Brazil Tristan McCowan and Cleonice Puggian 4. South African Post-Apartheid Realities and Citizenship Education Kogila Moodley 5. Citiz…
The Palestine Test
In his recent book The Israel Test, George Gilder argued that “the central issue in international politics, dividing the world into two fractious armies, is the tiny state of Israel.”1 One does not need to buy Gilder’s particular argument about Israel’s unique contribution to capitalist innovation to recognize the importance of Palestine/Israel in contemporary world politics. The global impact of Palestine/Israel is echoed by its prominence in th…
Curriculum capacity and citizenship education
Governments, international organizations and academics have, in recent decades, expressed a sense of crisis in the practice of democracy based largely upon increasing levels of disengagement by citizens from even the most basic elements of civic life. One response has been to devise civics and citizenship education curricula for schools with the concomitant expectations of enhanced civic practice. Our examination of citizenship education programs…
Symbolic Clothing in Schools
Symbolic Clothing in Schools: What Should be Worn and Why. By Dianne Gereluk. Pp.141. London and New York: Continuum International Publishing Group. 2008. £12.99. ISBN 978-0-8264-9766-6
Transforming Religious Education
Transforming Religious Education: Beliefs and Values Under Scrutiny. Brian Gates. Pp. 252. London and New York: Continuum International Publishing Group. 2007. £70. ISBN-13 978 08264 9683 0
Unreached and Unreasonable
In recent years, Canadian schools have developed new policies and practices in their approaches to both diversity policy and curriculum development. Public schools once intended to homogenize a diverse population have been transformed to institutions designed to foster tolerance and respect for diversity. Curricula previously organized around subject content are now framed as standards for student achievement. This article traces the development …
Teaching the Violent Past
Queer Anti-Capitalism
Lesbians and gays are on the verge of winning full citizenship in Canada and a number of Western European countries. This represents a remarkable change in the 35 years since the contemporary lesbian and gay liberation movement was launched out of the Stonewall riots. These gains are the product of a social movement with a strong history of militant mobilization. At the same time, the process of capitalist restructuring has opened some of the spa…
Retooling the Mind Factory
Alan Sears examines education reform in relation to a broad process of cultural and economic change. His book makes the case that education reform is one aspect of a broad-ranging neo-liberal agenda that aims to push the market deeper into every aspect of our lives by eliminating or shrinking non-market alternatives. The author begins by showing that advocates of education reform have had to make the case that the current system is not working. T…
Accounting for unsafe sex
Semi‐structured one‐on‐one interviews with 102 gay and bisexual men were conducted to examine the reasoning processes men use to exempt themselves from practicing safe sex. Qualitative analysis of the interviews revealed the following recurring themes: (a) Many men who were in couple relationships avoided condom use for reasons involving intimacy or trust, or because both partners were HIV‐negative; (b) unsafe sex sometimes occurred inadvertently…
The “Lean” State and Capitalist Restructuring
(1999). The “Lean” State and Capitalist Restructuring: Towards a Theoretical Account. Studies in Political Economy: Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 91-114
Attitudes Toward Homosexuals Among Students at a Canadian University
Experiencing HIV
Attitudes Toward Homosexuals Among Students at a Canadian University
Queer Anti-Capitalism
Lesbians and gays are on the verge of winning full citizenship in Canada and a number of Western European countries. This represents a remarkable change in the 35 years since the contemporary lesbian and gay liberation movement was launched out of the Stonewall riots. These gains are the product of a social movement with a strong history of militant mobilization. At the same time, the process of capitalist restructuring has opened some of the spa…
The “Lean” State and Capitalist Restructuring
(1999). The “Lean” State and Capitalist Restructuring: Towards a Theoretical Account. Studies in Political Economy: Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 91-114
Accounting for unsafe sex
Semi‐structured one‐on‐one interviews with 102 gay and bisexual men were conducted to examine the reasoning processes men use to exempt themselves from practicing safe sex. Qualitative analysis of the interviews revealed the following recurring themes: (a) Many men who were in couple relationships avoided condom use for reasons involving intimacy or trust, or because both partners were HIV‐negative; (b) unsafe sex sometimes occurred inadvertently…
Globalization, the Nation-State and the Citizen
Section A: Introduction 1. The Forming of Citizens in a Globalising World Alan Reid, Judith Gill and Alan Sears Section B: Case Studies 2. In Whose Interest? Australian Schooling and the Changing Contexts of Citizenship Alan Reid and Judith Gill 3. Education, Citizenship and the Construction of a New Democracy in Brazil Tristan McCowan and Cleonice Puggian 4. South African Post-Apartheid Realities and Citizenship Education Kogila Moodley 5. Citiz…
Situating Sexuality in Social Reproduction
The years since the rise of gay liberation in 1969 have seen remarkable changes in the realm of sexuality. Lesbians and gay men have won important rights and attained a cultural visibility that would have been impossible to imagine even thirty years ago. Yet these rights are limited, and apply only to specific sections of those who face exclusion, discrimination or violence on the basis of their queerness in the realm of gender and/or sexuality
Immigration Controls as Social Policy
The regulation of immigration has been one of the major social policy instruments employed by capitalist states. Immigration controls and social programs are among the most important means through which states attempt to regulate the size and character of national populations. Yet there has been a tendency to examine the history of immigration controls separately from that of social welfare programs. This article represents a preliminary attempt …
Curriculum capacity and citizenship education
Governments, international organizations and academics have, in recent decades, expressed a sense of crisis in the practice of democracy based largely upon increasing levels of disengagement by citizens from even the most basic elements of civic life. One response has been to devise civics and citizenship education curricula for schools with the concomitant expectations of enhanced civic practice. Our examination of citizenship education programs…
To Teach Them How to Live' The Politics of Public Health from Tuberculosis to Aids
The AIDS crisis has aroused considerable interest in the critical examination of public health. Much of this work has come from the perspective of 'cultural analysis', combining postmodernist theories with the politics of radical pluralism'. This work constitutes a rejection of Marxist state theory, and indeed has directed attention away from the state as an object of inquiry. This article is a response to 'cultural analysis', which uses an histo…
The Palestine Test
In his recent book The Israel Test, George Gilder argued that “the central issue in international politics, dividing the world into two fractious armies, is the tiny state of Israel.”1 One does not need to buy Gilder’s particular argument about Israel’s unique contribution to capitalist innovation to recognize the importance of Palestine/Israel in contemporary world politics. The global impact of Palestine/Israel is echoed by its prominence in th…
Aids and the Health of Nations
The public health response to AIDS has generally reflected a 'health from above' perspective that casts the state as the key actor in protecting the health of the community. This construction of AIDS has been challenged by activists emerging largely from the lesbian and gay movement. This challenge presents glimpses, in an incipient form, of a politics of 'health from below' that locates the struggle for health as part of the fight for control ov…
Negotiating sexual relationships after testing HIV-positive
Drawing on in-depth interviews with 60 people with HIV disease and 40 of their caregivers, this article reports on the effects of HIV seropositivity on sexual interaction and relationship formation. Using a sample representing gay and heterosexual, black and white, and male and female respondents, we focus on how people in the syndrome account for, cope with, and work through problems associated with HIV. While disengagement from sexuality is com…
Ensiná-los a viver
A crise da AIDS tem despertado grande interesse na exame crítico da política de saúde pública. Boa parte dessa reflexão tem seguido a perspectiva da "análise cultural" em que se combinam as teorias pós-modernas com a perspectiva política do "pluralismo radical". Essa combinação constitui uma rejeição da teoria marxista do Estado e, além disso, desvia a atenção do Estado como objeto de análise. Este artigo apresenta-se como uma resposta à "análise…
Towards Critical Thinking as an Ethic
(1991). Towards Critical Thinking as an Ethic. Theory & Research in Social Education: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 45-68
Unreached and Unreasonable
In recent years, Canadian schools have developed new policies and practices in their approaches to both diversity policy and curriculum development. Public schools once intended to homogenize a diverse population have been transformed to institutions designed to foster tolerance and respect for diversity. Curricula previously organized around subject content are now framed as standards for student achievement. This article traces the development …
Before the Welfare State
Les changements apportés en matière de politique sociale de 1880 à 1920 ont joué un rôle déterminant dans l'établissement et la nature de l'État‐providence. La santé publique était au premier rang de cette evolution. L'État a commencéà pénétrer dans les foyers par de nouveaux moyens, comme les programmes de visite à domicile lancés durant cette période. Dans notre étude, nous décrivons ces nouveaux programmes dans le contexte d'une transformation…
Swift and the Dialectical Tradition
Immigration Controls as Social Policy
The regulation of immigration has been one of the major social policy instruments employed by capitalist states. Immigration controls and social programs are among the most important means through which states attempt to regulate the size and character of national populations. Yet there has been a tendency to examine the history of immigration controls separately from that of social welfare programs. This article represents a preliminary attempt …
The Senior Citizens' Tea
Towards Critical Thinking as an Ethic
(1991). Towards Critical Thinking as an Ethic. Theory & Research in Social Education: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 45-68
Aids and the Health of Nations
The public health response to AIDS has generally reflected a 'health from above' perspective that casts the state as the key actor in protecting the health of the community. This construction of AIDS has been challenged by activists emerging largely from the lesbian and gay movement. This challenge presents glimpses, in an incipient form, of a politics of 'health from below' that locates the struggle for health as part of the fight for control ov…
To Teach Them How to Live' The Politics of Public Health from Tuberculosis to Aids
The AIDS crisis has aroused considerable interest in the critical examination of public health. Much of this work has come from the perspective of 'cultural analysis', combining postmodernist theories with the politics of radical pluralism'. This work constitutes a rejection of Marxist state theory, and indeed has directed attention away from the state as an object of inquiry. This article is a response to 'cultural analysis', which uses an histo…
Ensiná-los a viver
A crise da AIDS tem despertado grande interesse na exame crítico da política de saúde pública. Boa parte dessa reflexão tem seguido a perspectiva da "análise cultural" em que se combinam as teorias pós-modernas com a perspectiva política do "pluralismo radical". Essa combinação constitui uma rejeição da teoria marxista do Estado e, além disso, desvia a atenção do Estado como objeto de análise. Este artigo apresenta-se como uma resposta à "análise…
Social Studies as Citizenship Education in English Canada
Social studies in North America has most often been defined as being fundamentally concerned with preparing students for participation in civic life. Much of the research on citizenship education, however, has been conducted in the United States. Many of the findings of this research have often been applied to Canadian situations despite different political structures and understandings of citizenship in the two nations. In this article, I review…
Negotiating sexual relationships after testing HIV-positive
Drawing on in-depth interviews with 60 people with HIV disease and 40 of their caregivers, this article reports on the effects of HIV seropositivity on sexual interaction and relationship formation. Using a sample representing gay and heterosexual, black and white, and male and female respondents, we focus on how people in the syndrome account for, cope with, and work through problems associated with HIV. While disengagement from sexuality is com…
Before the Welfare State
Les changements apportés en matière de politique sociale de 1880 à 1920 ont joué un rôle déterminant dans l'établissement et la nature de l'État‐providence. La santé publique était au premier rang de cette evolution. L'État a commencéà pénétrer dans les foyers par de nouveaux moyens, comme les programmes de visite à domicile lancés durant cette période. Dans notre étude, nous décrivons ces nouveaux programmes dans le contexte d'une transformation…
Experiencing HIV
Adapting Problem-Based Learning to Social Studies Teacher Education
In this paper we describe how we have adapted Problem-Based Learning for use in Social Studies Teacher Education. The background of PBL as used in various professional Faculties, particularly medicine, is reviewed and a curricular justification offered. Specific difficulties experienced in adapting PBL to the circumstances of teacher education are examined taking into account the perspectives of both prospective teachers and teacher educators
The “Lean” State and Capitalist Restructuring
(1999). The “Lean” State and Capitalist Restructuring: Towards a Theoretical Account. Studies in Political Economy: Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 91-114
Attitudes Toward Homosexuals Among Students at a Canadian University
Accounting for unsafe sex
Semi‐structured one‐on‐one interviews with 102 gay and bisexual men were conducted to examine the reasoning processes men use to exempt themselves from practicing safe sex. Qualitative analysis of the interviews revealed the following recurring themes: (a) Many men who were in couple relationships avoided condom use for reasons involving intimacy or trust, or because both partners were HIV‐negative; (b) unsafe sex sometimes occurred inadvertently…
Retooling the Mind Factory
Alan Sears examines education reform in relation to a broad process of cultural and economic change. His book makes the case that education reform is one aspect of a broad-ranging neo-liberal agenda that aims to push the market deeper into every aspect of our lives by eliminating or shrinking non-market alternatives. The author begins by showing that advocates of education reform have had to make the case that the current system is not working. T…
Queer Anti-Capitalism
Lesbians and gays are on the verge of winning full citizenship in Canada and a number of Western European countries. This represents a remarkable change in the 35 years since the contemporary lesbian and gay liberation movement was launched out of the Stonewall riots. These gains are the product of a social movement with a strong history of militant mobilization. At the same time, the process of capitalist restructuring has opened some of the spa…
Unreached and Unreasonable
In recent years, Canadian schools have developed new policies and practices in their approaches to both diversity policy and curriculum development. Public schools once intended to homogenize a diverse population have been transformed to institutions designed to foster tolerance and respect for diversity. Curricula previously organized around subject content are now framed as standards for student achievement. This article traces the development …
Teaching the Violent Past
Symbolic Clothing in Schools
Symbolic Clothing in Schools: What Should be Worn and Why. By Dianne Gereluk. Pp.141. London and New York: Continuum International Publishing Group. 2008. £12.99. ISBN 978-0-8264-9766-6
Transforming Religious Education
Transforming Religious Education: Beliefs and Values Under Scrutiny. Brian Gates. Pp. 252. London and New York: Continuum International Publishing Group. 2007. £70. ISBN-13 978 08264 9683 0
The Palestine Test
In his recent book The Israel Test, George Gilder argued that “the central issue in international politics, dividing the world into two fractious armies, is the tiny state of Israel.”1 One does not need to buy Gilder’s particular argument about Israel’s unique contribution to capitalist innovation to recognize the importance of Palestine/Israel in contemporary world politics. The global impact of Palestine/Israel is echoed by its prominence in th…
Curriculum capacity and citizenship education
Governments, international organizations and academics have, in recent decades, expressed a sense of crisis in the practice of democracy based largely upon increasing levels of disengagement by citizens from even the most basic elements of civic life. One response has been to devise civics and citizenship education curricula for schools with the concomitant expectations of enhanced civic practice. Our examination of citizenship education programs…
Globalization, the Nation-State and the Citizen
Section A: Introduction 1. The Forming of Citizens in a Globalising World Alan Reid, Judith Gill and Alan Sears Section B: Case Studies 2. In Whose Interest? Australian Schooling and the Changing Contexts of Citizenship Alan Reid and Judith Gill 3. Education, Citizenship and the Construction of a New Democracy in Brazil Tristan McCowan and Cleonice Puggian 4. South African Post-Apartheid Realities and Citizenship Education Kogila Moodley 5. Citiz…
Education, extremism and terrorism
In early July 2005 I was attending the First Citized International Conference at the University of Toronto in Canada when London was rocked by the so-called 7/7 subway and bus bombings. A significa
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