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The battle hymn of the activist teacher: Taiwanese school teachers’ resistance to curriculum changes
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In this paper, the authors challenge the simplistic and reductive image of Taiwanese schoolteachers and reveal their actions of resistance during the turmoil of the recent curriculum reform controversia in Taiwan.Abstract:
This article challenges the simplistic and reductive image of Taiwanese schoolteachers, and reveals their actions of resistance during the turmoil of the recent curriculum reform controvers...read more
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TL;DR: The authors briefly survey forms of narrative inquiry in educational studies and outline certain criteria, methods, and writing forms, which they describe in terms of beginning the story, living the story and selecting stories to construct and reconstruct narrative plots.
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The Strategy of Social Protest.
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TL;DR: The meaning of success in the political arena, the limits of solidarity, the strategy of thinking small, the success of the unruly, and the historical context of challenges as mentioned in this paper.
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