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Daniel Morales-Doyle – Harvard Education Press, 2024
"Transformative Science Teaching" reveals Daniel Morales-Doyle's vision for science education that supports meaningful learning in the sciences. In this sensible and sensitive assessment of science instruction in the United States, Morales-Doyle outlines both what science education is and what it could be. He suggests that a judicious…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Transformative Learning, Science Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Jennifer C. Mann; Sarah Williams – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2024
As the number of displaced people increases, providing refugee-background students with critically engaging classrooms is essential. Supporting diverse learners, while focusing on issues of social justice and equity, critical literacy facilitates a perspective where texts are analyzed for underlying messages of power and sociopolitical issues.…
Descriptors: Refugees, Personal Autonomy, Equal Education, Background
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Logan, Charles W.; Chapman, Amy L.; Krutka, Dan G.; Mehta, Swati; Vakil, Sepehr – Grantee Submission, 2022
Students often have limited opportunities in school to grapple with the ramifications of the increasing influence technology companies exert over their lives. Digital citizenship curricula could be the exception, but they typically emphasize personal safety and respectful behavior online, ignoring more participatory or justice-oriented notions of…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Technological Literacy, Critical Theory, Social Justice
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Filbin, Deborah N. – Art Education, 2021
Many scholars and educators are moving toward an anti-oppressive paradigm in art education, transitioning away from imposing norms in an effort to think more creatively about teaching practices and classroom culture (Kraehe, 2019). Reflecting deeper on her position as a White, middle-class, female teacher who taught in an underserved community,…
Descriptors: Art Education, Social Justice, Teaching Methods, Racial Bias
Venegas, Salvador – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This case study offers a recounting and analysis of the experiences of one urban educator, in a public high school mathematics classroom setting, working to integrate critical mathematics curricula and pedagogy with youth and in collaboration with a community organization. This project helps to unveil complexities that teachers may experience when…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Urban Schools, Public Schools, High School Teachers
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Chung, Sheng Kuan; Li, Dan – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2021
A curriculum that integrates Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (called STEM education) has been implemented in K-12 schools in the United States for several years. The purpose of this article is to explore the further integration of issues-based art education into STEM education (hereafter-called issues-based STEAM education) to…
Descriptors: Art Education, STEM Education, Foreign Countries, High Schools
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Khalid Arar – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
As an academic counselor of four schools coping with social and educational challenges in the Palestinian education system in Jerusalem, I chose to direct the spotlight on the case of a high school serving mainly Muslim students, to observe how gender issues were reflected in the school's activities to shape an experience of equity for male and…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Educational Practices, Social Problems, Barriers
Skerrett, Allison; Smagorinsky, Peter – Corwin, 2022
Educators often bemoan the so-called learning gap that followed the upheaval to schooling in 2020, but the real learning gap will occur if the watershed events and social shifts of the early 2020s are not integrated into school instruction and learning. For today's learning to be relevant to today's students, it must reflect their lives and the…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Critical Thinking, Learning Activities
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Cruz, Joana P.; Malafaia, Carla; Silva, José Eduardo; Menezes, Isabel – Educational Forum, 2019
This article presents a 2-year participatory intervention developed in a secondary school. Based on the European project Catch-EyoU, fostering a critical and active European citizenship, Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) was used with students to develop individual and collective reflection on the possibilities of political change over dating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Theater Arts, Social Justice, Audience Participation
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Stephen R. Flemming – English Journal, 2021
Having students read news articles or novels, watch television snippets, engage in class discussions, essay-writing, emailing, and drafting letters are excellent ways to broach any number of society's systemic and oppressive social maladies. Engaging in these activities in the English language arts classroom can serve as a catalyst to encourage…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Scripts, Social Problems, Social Justice
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Finkel, Liza – Educational Foundations, 2018
Finding ways for all students to engage meaningfully with science and learn to use scientific knowledge and skills to identify and solve personal and community-based problems requires more than making changes to the curriculum students experience in schools. This article describes a methods course, part of a one-year masters level teacher…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Science Instruction, Science Process Skills, Social Problems
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Boyd, Ashley Summer; Ferry, Nicole; Jeffries, Matthew Scott; Lash, Johnna – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2018
While antiracist, problem-posing, and culturally relevant curriculum are effective in teaching students how to deconstruct the world, in practice, social justice education often falls short of helping students reconstruct those instances. In response, researchers in this study implemented a social justice action project for high school students…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Social Action, Civics, Social Change
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Mirra, Nicole; Garcia, Antero – Harvard Educational Review, 2020
In this essay, Nicole Mirra and Antero Garcia explore how young people from six demographically distinct communities across the United States understand the social and political issues affecting their lives, engage in storytelling and dialogue across differences, and collaboratively imagine humanizing and hopeful civic futures. Drawing from…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Political Issues, Story Telling, Dialogs (Language)
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Parkhouse, Hillary; Arnold, Bryan P. – Teachers College Record, 2019
Background/Context: Within the United States, wealth disparities are growing and upward social mobility is becoming increasingly difficult to attain. These trends call into question the American Dream ideology that anyone can succeed through hard work. This meritocratic ideal has traditionally been one of the unifying ideologies promoted through…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Critical Thinking, Teaching Methods, Social Development
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Wargo, Jon M.; Clayton, Kara – Learning, Media and Technology, 2018
Amplified by a global political climate of fear, oppression, and increased nationalism, this article examines how U.S. secondary students in a digital media elective course used multimodal composition, and video production in particular, as a nexus of 'participatory politics.' By partnering theories of multiliterate expression with youth civic…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Urban Youth, Acoustics, Social Justice
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