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du Val d'Epremesnil, Diane – Religious Education, 2021
This article investigates a life education initiative from India, directed at children from primary to the end of secondary school. Over the course of the program, students learn to connect with their emotions and values, to understand that their lives are made of stories, and that they have a place in the larger community as agents of change.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Indians, Change Agents, Program Descriptions
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Singh, Shweta – International Review of Education, 2018
Research has shown that there has been severe disruption in the educational sector in Kashmir post-1989 (the year Kashmiri unrest erupted). Inhibiting problems include the destruction of school buildings, parents' fear of sending their children to school, the recruitment of youth into armed groups, the economic decline of households, and forced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peace, Transformative Learning, Conflict
Le Bourdon, Madeleine – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2021
Global citizenship education (GCE) seeks to develop critical thinking and self-reflexivity and, crucially, to create feelings of belonging to a common humanity. Although the subjectivity of belonging has been widely recognized, gaps remain around the micro-level experiences and practices that foster global identities. This article addresses these…
Descriptors: Sensory Experience, Global Approach, Critical Thinking, Citizenship Education
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Bangay, Colin – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2016
This paper explores the potential contribution of education to sustainable development. Drawing on recent evidence it argues that education could play a stronger role--a position reinforced by the new sustainable development goals (SDGs). However, securing this contribution will have to be achieved in an era where educational delivery will be…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Teaching Methods, Climate
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Wals, Arjen E. J.; Schwarzin, Lisa – Learning Organization, 2012
Purpose: This paper aims to introduce and investigate dialogic interaction as a key element of achieving a transition towards sustainability in people, organizations and society as a whole. Furthermore "sustainability competence" as a potential outcome of such interaction is to be introduced, referring to the capacities and qualities…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Interaction, Case Studies, Models
Truong-White, Hoa; McLean, Lorna – Canadian Journal of Education, 2015
This article explores how digital storytelling offers the potential to support transformative global citizenship education (TGCE) through a case study of the Bridges to Understanding program that connected middle and high school students globally using digital storytelling. Drawing on a TGCE framework, this research project probed the curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transformative Learning, Citizenship Education, Discourse Analysis
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Bajaj, Monisha – Teachers College Record, 2015
Background/Context: Human rights education has proliferated in the past four decades and can be found in policy discussions, textbook reforms, and grassroots initiatives across the globe. This article specifically explores the role of creativity and imagination in human rights education (HRE) by focusing on a case study of one non-governmental…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Disadvantaged
York Univ., Toronto (Ontario). – 1995
This document summarizes and presents materials produced during a qualitative international study of the role of transformative learning in achieving sustainable societies and global responsibility that included the following activities: case studies of experiences with transformative learning in seven countries; international survey and workshop;…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Case Studies, Community Programs