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Emera Greenwood; Allison Colonna; Dani Novo; Samantha Walter; Eli Shafaf; Briana McGeough; Megan S. Paceley – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2024
Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) social work students experience microaggressions on campuses, curricula that are often cissexist and stigmatizing, and a lack of inclusive facilities, like gender-neutral bathrooms. The Transgender Justice Group (TJG) was founded by students at a School of Social Welfare (SSW) to respond to these and other…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Sexuality, Social Justice, Advocacy
Henry, Frances; Dua, Enakshi; James, Carl E.; Kobayashi, Audrey; Li, Peter; Ramos, Howard; Smith, Malinda S. – University of British Columbia Press, 2017
The university is often regarded as a bastion of liberal democracy where equity and diversity are promoted and racism does not exist. In reality, the university still excludes many people and is a site of racialization that is subtle, complex, and sophisticated. While some studies do point to the persistence of systemic barriers to equity and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Colleges, Surveys
National Academies Press, 2016
Ethical practice in engineering is critical for ensuring public trust in the field and in its practitioners, especially as engineers increasingly tackle international and socially complex problems that combine technical and ethical challenges. This report aims to raise awareness of the variety of exceptional programs and strategies for improving…
Descriptors: Ethics, Engineering Education, Social Problems, Consciousness Raising
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Wight, Randall D. – Teaching of Psychology, 2003
William James addressed the last 3 lectures in "Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals" (1899/1958) specifically to students. The first of these lectures, "The Gospel of Relaxation," encouraged students to be both relaxed and active. The second, "On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings," promoted awareness of and…
Descriptors: Empathy, Psychology, Lecture Method, Consciousness Raising
Brawdy, Paul J. – Online Submission, 2004
This paper focuses on the use of outdoor-based experiential learning in an undergraduate physical education teacher preparation program to develop a culturally-sensitive pedagogy for work with children from different cultures. Applying the six-stage process for becoming a bi-cultural teacher (Klug & Whitfield, 2003), teacher preparation…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Consciousness Raising, Outdoor Education, Field Trips