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Caffrey, Genevieve Erker; Rogers, Rebecca – Berkeley Review of Education, 2018
Inspired by critical literacy practices, sixth-grade students at Carter Elementary designed, curated, and publicly displayed a museum exhibit to expose and confront issues of social justice. Through this case study of one display within the exhibit, we analyze the ideas and stances represented in each of its artifacts and investigate how,…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Critical Literacy, Elementary School Students, Social Justice
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Pierson, Ashlyn E.; Clark, Douglas B.; Brady, Corey E. – Science Education, 2021
Research suggests that translanguaging can be transformative for teaching and learning by making students' diverse linguistic resources a meaningful part of classroom discourse. Building on this study, researchers have explored how translanguaging practices can support learning in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), primarily…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Learner Engagement, Code Switching (Language), Transformative Learning
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Curwen, Margaret Sauceda; Ardell, Amy; MacGillivray, Laurie – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2019
This qualitative case study examines how fifth graders and their teachers participated in critical literacy instruction grounded in systems thinking on the topic of slavery. Systems thinking seeks to discover relationships and patterns in diverse underlying systems; critical literacy examines everyday texts, focuses on social justice and change,…
Descriptors: Activism, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Systems Approach
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Pedaste, Margus; Sarapuu, Tago – Interactive Learning Environments, 2014
The aim of this explorative study was to find the factors limiting sixth-grade learners' outcomes in acquiring skills related to the transformative inquiry learning processes as well as to analyse the interrelations between inquiry skills in order to develop an optimal support system for designing Web-based inquiry learning environments. A…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Transformative Learning, Learning Processes, Web Based Instruction