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"So, You're a Zionist?": Reflections on Philosophy, Theory, Ethics and Values in Social Work Education and Social Justice Advocacy
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Mary Twis – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2025
Drawing from my experiences as an American-Israeli Jewish woman in social work academia, I use this paper to reflect upon the ways in which the Council on Social Work Education's newly-mandated anti-racist and anti-oppressive paradigms are problematic for the future of the social work profession. While it is important for social workers to address…
Descriptors: Social Work, College Students, College Faculty, Jews
Education and Life's Meaning
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Schinkel, Anders; De Ruyter, Doret J.; Aviram, Aharon – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2016
There are deep connections between education and the question of life's meaning, which derive, ultimately, from the fact that, for human beings, how to live--and therefore, how to raise one's children--is not a given but a question. One might see the meaning of life as constitutive of the meaning of education, and answers to the question of life's…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Children, Values, Affective Objectives
FORUM: Affective Learning. Affective Learning: Evolving from Values and Planned Behaviors to Internalization and Pervasive Behavioral Change
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Thweatt, Katherine S.; Wrench, Jason S. – Communication Education, 2015
The mission of "Communication Education" is to publish the best research on communication and learning. Researchers study the communication-learning interface in many ways, but a common approach is to explore how instructor and student communication can lead to better learning outcomes. Although scholars have long classified learning…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Learning, Classroom Communication, Values
K-5 Literacy Education: A Comparison between American Common Core State Standards and Chinese National Curriculum Standards
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Zhang, Haiyan; Yin, Jianjun – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2014
Literacy education is the most important part in school education and its efficiency determines the students' achievements in their future education and career. In 2010, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were released, which aimed to provide common standards for K-12 public school students in the whole country to improve the educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Comparative Analysis, Academic Standards
How Do We Measure Affective Learning in Higher Education?
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Buissink-Smith, Nell; Mann, Samuel; Shephard, Kerry – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2011
Educational outcomes related to sustainability often include affective attributes such as values, attitudes and behaviours. Educators in higher education who attempt to research, monitor, assess or evaluate learning of affective attributes can face a bewildering array of methodologies and approaches and a research literature that spans several…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Sustainable Development
The Use of Anthropological Theory in an Educational Program Evaluation.
Gregory, Lynn – 1979
The paper describes a methodology to aid educators as they evaluate educational programs aimed at changing students' attitudes, values, and/or behavior. The major objective of the evaluation method is to analyze the content and/or process that underlies behavior in a given situation. In addition, the paper relates how this method was used to…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Anthropology, Attitude Change, Behavioral Science Research