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Shaw, Martha – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2023
Within plural democracies, the concept of 'religious literacy' is commonly understood as denoting the knowledge, skills and understanding "vis-à-vis" religious diversity required of the citizen. In schools across Europe such learning is traditionally housed within Religious Education (RE), the aims of which are increasingly framed in…
Descriptors: World Views, Literacy, Religious Education, Citizenship Education
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Hoggan, Chad; Kloubert, Tetyana – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2020
This is a response to "The Ethical Knower: Rethinking Our Pedagogy in the Age of Trump" by Elana Michelson. We appreciate Michelson's critical evaluation of the appropriateness of transformative learning and the use of personal narrative, as well as the frames and tools she offers to help us deal with current challenges such as…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Theory Practice Relationship, Epistemology, Hermeneutics
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Meyer, Meinert A.; Rakhkochkine, Anatoli – European Educational Research Journal, 2018
We take the reception of Wolfgang Klafki's didactics in Russia as our example for the difficult relations between knowledge transfer and knowledge transformation. We start with a description, analysis and evaluation of Klafki's two didactical models, categorical didactics and critical-constructive didactics, and then describe and evaluate their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Philosophy, Transformative Learning, Educational Practices
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Uljens, Michael; Ylimaki, Rose M. – Educational Governance Research, 2017
This chapter presents non-affirmative theory of education as the foundation for a new research program in education, allowing us to bridge educational leadership, curriculum studies and Didaktik. We demonstrate the strengths of this framework by analyzing literature from educational leadership and curriculum theory/didaktik. In contrast to both…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Socialization, Educational Research, Instructional Leadership
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Bamber, Phil – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2011
This article draws upon the findings of a study at Liverpool Hope University (LHU) into the transformative nature of International Service-Learning (ISL) experiences for student participants. This research is concerned with the implications of these findings for professional practice, in particular how ISL is constructed in Higher Education policy…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Grounded Theory, Catholic Schools, Transformative Learning
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Vozzo, Les – Educational Action Research, 2011
The focus is a self-study of my own practice and how I investigated my educative practice in facilitating the professional learning of a group of teacher researchers. Two key questions are answered: How did I support teacher researchers with their inquiries? How did this contribution shape my professional identity as an educator? This self-study…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Teacher Researchers, Hermeneutics, Classroom Techniques
Rothman, Robert – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2013
Based on data released December 3, 2013, from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), this Alliance for Excellent Education report reveals that the United States struggles to produce top performers in reading, math, and science at the rates of its international peers. These students, who the report calls the "deepest…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement
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Jacobson, Ronald B. – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2007
To date, research on bullying has largely employed empirical methodologies, including quantitative and qualitative approaches. Through this research we have come to understand bullying as both a dyadic and peer group phenomenon, primarily situated in the heads (thinking) of those involved, or in a lack of skill or expertise, or in the delinquency…
Descriptors: Bullying, Peer Groups, Experience, Perspective Taking