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Complete College America, 2024
Supporting student success and meeting college completion and equity goals requires institutions to do more than just work at the margins. Overcoming deep-seated challenges means that campuses need to transform. Successful transformation requires identifying, understanding, and navigating campus culture so initiatives can both implement new…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Minority Group Students, Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement
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Romero, Augustine F.; Sánchez, H. T. – Multicultural Perspectives, 2014
A critically transformative education continues to be at the center of Tucson Unified School District's (TUSD) equity and academic excellence mission. Through the use of the Social Transformation paradigm and the lesson learned from the implementation of the Critically Compassionate Intellectualism Model, TUSD once again created a cutting edge…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, School Districts, Equal Education, Social Change
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Hill, Barbara; Mills, Jane – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2013
In 2010, an Indigenous Elder from the Wiradjuri nation and a group of academics from Charles Sturt University travelled to Menindee, a small locality on the edge of the Australian outback. They were embarked upon an "adventure-learning" research journey to study ways of learning by creating a community of practice with an Elder from the…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Transformative Learning, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Culatta, Richard – EDUCAUSE Review, 2012
Education in the United States is entering a very exciting moment. For the first time, all of the digital stars are aligning n such a way that the technology is available to design truly transformational learning experiences. The ubiquity of inexpensive and powerful mobile devices is creating the potential for all students to learn at any time and…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Educational Technology, Innovation, Transformative Learning
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Harris, Sandra; Hopson, Michael – Teacher Development, 2008
The purpose of this article is to both introduce and describe the use of an equity audit investigation to prepare students in an educational leadership doctoral program for social justice leadership. The course setting where the equity audit served as the culminating activity is described. The authors also report on a five-question, open-ended…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Feedback (Response), Doctoral Programs, Student Surveys