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Shuyuan Liu; Kenneth Gyamerah; Claire Ahn; Thashika Pillay – Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2024
The current structure of formal education makes it difficult for teachers and students to hold meaningful conversations to support high-school youth's meaning-making of critical social-justice issues. This paper presents data on three high-school youth's knowledge and experiences with social justice issues during the pandemic. Specifically, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Social Justice, Informal Education
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Sean Blenkinsop; Linda Wihelmsson – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2024
This paper has two main purposes. The first, more informational, is to introduce, re-introduce, the German-Nordic concept of "Bildung" to Canadian environmental education. This includes a brief attempt to define, a short overview of its history which stretches back to the Eighteenth century at least, and then an exploration of why and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Social Justice, Educational Policy
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Erin Sperling; Hilary Inwood; Laura Sims; Paul Elliott – Canadian Journal of Education, 2025
As teacher education can help communities transition to sustainable, just ways of being, this study reports on the development of, and research on, a national E-course for preservice teachers focused on Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE). This collaborative initiative brought together academics, community educators, and K-12 teachers…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Ecology, Justice, Preservice Teacher Education
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Sara Karn; Kristina R. Llewellyn; Penney Clark – Canadian Journal of Education, 2024
This study explores how K-12 history curricula across Canada currently address--and may better address in future--decolonizing imperatives. Following a consideration of the limitations and strengths of curricula in this regard, the article identifies five recommendations for (re)designing history and social studies curricula with decolonizing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, History Instruction, Decolonization
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Étienne Lavoie-Trudeau; Tim Dubé; Michaël Beaudoin; Annie Carrier – Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2023
Canadian occupational therapy (OT) university programs must teach change agent competencies. These include promoting social justice and empowering clients, which United States occupational therapists also do. Change agent competency requirements are challenging to teach and involve multidisciplinary knowledge and non-traditional skills. As few…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Occupational Therapy, College Faculty, Allied Health Occupations Education
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Whitty, Pam; Lysack, Monica; Lirette, Patricia; Lehrer, Joanne; Hewes, Jane – Global Education Review, 2020
We are five early childhood researchers, from across Canada, thrown together amongst a series of alarming discourses, where developmental, economic, and neuroscientific rationales for ECEC drown out alternative theoretical perspectives, as well as personal experience, values, subjective knowledges, and the fierce passion we feel for our work. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Curriculum
Evgenia Valuy; Jodi Sanger – Institute of International Education, 2021
In this impact study, Institute of International Education's (IIE's) evaluation team looked into the achievements and impact of IIE's trustees Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) scholars following the completion of their fellowships. In doing so, the evaluation team explored scholars' post-fellowship impact through four lenses: (1) the IIE-SRF…
Descriptors: International Education, Fellowships, Scholarships, Program Evaluation
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Bickmore, Kathy; Kishani Farahani, Najme – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2022
Building durable peace through education requires addressing the gender ideologies and hierarchies that encourage both direct physical aggression and indirect harm through marginalization and exploitation. Although formal education systems are shaped by gendered patterns of social conflict, enmity, and inequity, schools can help young people to…
Descriptors: Peace, Teaching Methods, Sustainability, Public Schools
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Lamb, Christopher; Godlewska, Anne – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2021
This paper analyses the coverage of Indigenous topics in K-12 education in British Columbia (BC) using curriculum documents and course enrolment. It focuses on curriculum documents published between 1995 and 2010 and mandated in public education from 1995 to 2019, and argues that Indigenous topics were marginalized in the curriculum overall.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Indigenous Populations, Canada Natives
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Helkenberg, Davin; Schoenberger, Nicole; Kooy, S. A. Vander; Pemberton, Amanda; Ali, Karim; Bartlett, Sarah; Clair, Jillian; Crombleholme, Sydney; Dee, Alison; DePierro, Kristy; Greenwood, Timothy; Lobzun, Meagan; Petersen, Cassandra; Saunders, Sabrina Redwing; Tarzi, Mary; Ward, Kristyn; Zip, Stacey – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2018
This paper was produced as a collaborative project by a Progressive Librarianship class at an ALA-accredited Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program located in Canada. Recent research in LIS has identified a need for issues of social justice to be discussed more prominently in LIS education. From a uniquely student perspective,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Information Science Education, Library Science
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Tompkins, Joanne; Kearns, Laura-Lee; Mitton-Kükner, Jennifer – McGill Journal of Education, 2017
Critical challenges facing teacher educators at faculties of education is how to prepare teacher candidates to see schools situated in larger social contexts and support their ongoing learning as social justice advocates. Anti-oppressive work that challenges the marginalization of Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, Two-Spirited, Queering and/or…
Descriptors: Barriers, Teacher Educators, Social Justice, Advocacy
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Renwick, Kerry – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2017
The development of curriculum for health education in schools is an area of contestation. Drawing on the provincial curriculum of British Columbia and the Australian national curriculum, this article explores both common and different approaches to school-based health education and promotion. Students experience the impacts of the social…
Descriptors: Health Education, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, National Curriculum
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Bellomo, Katherine – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Science, technology, society, and the environment (STSE) education is a part of the science curriculum in Ontario schools and also a theoretical positioning for a science teacher. This qualitative study uses individual interviews, group meetings, and action research to explore, how science teachers, develop and implement inclusive science…
Descriptors: Science Education, Social Justice, Technology Education, Science Curriculum
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Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas; Radford, Linda; Yazdanian, Shenin; Norris, Tracy – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2013
Students are bombarded daily with print, visual, and digital media. Whether it is on a billboard, listening to an iPod on the way to school, or text messaging a friend during class, youth culture is hardwired into these multiple forms of communication technologies. Nonetheless, the daily life and respective experiences of students are often still…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Moral Development, Social Justice, Social Action
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Olson, Margaret R.; Craig, Cheryl J. – Action in Teacher Education, 2012
This research shows how two teacher educators, one from Canada and one from the United States, have attempted to imbue their preservice and graduate education practices with a sense of social justice, despite the downgrading of the importance of social justice by accreditation agencies such as National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Preservice Teacher Education, Graduate School Faculty
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