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Ostertag, Julia; Ammendolia, Justine; Vance, Alexandra; McPherson, Kerri; Hamelin, Kayla M.; Cousineau, Maryse; Daoud, Dounia; Morissette, Lyne; Orren, Kimberly; Hill, Amy; VanderKloet, Evelien; Whoriskey, Fred; Iverson, Sara; Sutherland, Maggie; Denny, Shelley; Beland, Joseph; Syliboy, Alanna; Stokesbury, Michael J. W.; Porter, Darren – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2021
In this article, we consider the role of ocean literacy in coastal communities as an approach that fosters relevant, community-based learning. We also propose solutions to challenges facing human-ocean relationships by cultivating common understanding and collective action. We present four examples of community-based ocean literacy in…
Descriptors: Community Education, Oceanography, Foreign Countries, Social Action
Park, Na-Eun; Choe, Seung-Urn; Kim, Chan-Jong – Asia-Pacific Science Education, 2020
Climate change education (CCE) programs should foster citizen response to climate change by integrating knowledge/skill development with reflection on the need for actively changing current social systems and personal actions. An analytical framework was developed to examine 16 Korean and international CCE programs to identify (1) structure and…
Descriptors: Climate, Environmental Education, Social Action, Foreign Countries
Fassetta, Giovanna; Imperiale, Maria Grazia; Aldegheri, Esa; Al-Masri, Nazmi – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2020
This article discusses the process of negotiating the storyline for videos developed as part of an online Arabic language course. The project was guided by a social-justice-through-education agenda, explicitly aiming to redress the high unemployment rate of language graduates in the Gaza Strip. We illustrate how the international team designing…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Video Technology, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning
DeMink-Carthew, Jessica – Middle Grades Review, 2018
Although democratic education has long been considered a cornerstone of the developmentally responsive middle school model, current neoliberal priorities in education pose a particular threat to the democratic purpose of education. Due to their emphasis on student voice and civic engagement, youth social action projects present one opportunity to…
Descriptors: Social Action, Democracy, Neoliberalism, Middle School Students
VanderDussen Toukan, Elena – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
If service-learning is to fulfill its potential to contribute to meaningful social change, scholars and practitioners must consider how service might foster a dynamic relationship between knowledge, the learner and the community. This paper challenges modernist conceptions of knowledge as a 'commodity' that can be delivered and consumed, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Change, Service Learning, Correlation
Saelua, Natasha A.; Sablan, Jenna – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2019
Education research focused on Pacific Islanders over the past 30 years has overwhelmingly concluded that U.S. systems of education are failing these students, but the global movement towards culturally relevant and inclusive education has had an indelible impact on the number and types of support available for Pacific Islander students in the…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Leadership Training, Pacific Islanders, College Students
Ioannidou, Elena; Kiourti, Elisavet; Christofidou, Christina – Research Papers in Education, 2019
The current paper presents data from a social literacy programme implemented in the prison school in Cyprus for 18 months. The programme was theoretically informed by critical literacy, genre pedagogy, multimodality and non-formal education and it aimed to opt away from skill-based, autonomous and corrective models of literacy education that are…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Education
Antunes, Fátima; Barros, Rosanna – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
This article intends to empirically document the ambiguity, even ambivalence, of governance practices , through the study of a public policy in Portugal, the Programme InovAction, that stimulates intervention projects in 'local state of emergency' territories. In this way, we search to contribute to the debate around the reform of the State and…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Intervention
Teeters, Leah A.; Jurow, A. Susan – Ethnography and Education, 2018
This article examines the social and cultural organisation of learning and community change in a largely new immigrant and under-resourced neighbourhood in the US. Situating our investigation within a local social movement for food justice, we use an ethnographic lens to study how learning is made to become consequential across relationships…
Descriptors: Social Action, Social Justice, Food, Social Networks
McLachlan, Kath; Rawlings-Sanaei, Felicity; Mason, Colina; Haski-Levanthal, Debbie; Nabeel, Hussein – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2017
Professional and Community Engagement (PACE) at Macquarie University offers undergraduate students experiential learning opportunities with local, regional and international partners. Through PACE, students work on mutually beneficial projects that both meet the partner's organizational goals and enable students to strengthen graduate capabilities…
Descriptors: Social Change, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students
Gordon, Tatiana – TESOL Journal, 2012
This article discusses the use of role-play as an effective strategy for enhancing the quality of multicultural curricula in the English as a second language (ESL) classroom. The author critiques the use of the simplistic additive approach to multicultural instruction and furthers the work of those theorists who advocate the use of the more…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Multicultural Education, English (Second Language), Evidence
Zanchetta, M. S.; Kolawole Salami, B.; Perreault, M.; Leite, L. C. – Health Education Research, 2012
Health education for socially marginalized populations challenges the efficacy of existing strategies and methods, and the pertinence of the educational and philosophical principles that underpin them. The Brazilian Community Health Agents Initiative (CHAI) hires residents of deprived marginalized communities to undertake health promotion and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Civil Rights, Health Education
Williams, Ashley – Online Submission, 2010
Our world is faced with a vast array of environmental catastrophes ranging everywhere from climate change, to air and water pollution, to mass extinction of species which all threaten the environment and human existence. As of now, students are not being informed on the sustainability issues, or engaged in the change process at school. Rote…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Environmental Education, Active Learning, Sustainable Development
Sanchez, Patricia – New Directions for Youth Development, 2009
This article discusses a participatory action research (PAR) project carried out with three transnational Latina youth in northern California and how the university researcher incorporated Chicana feminist strategies in the study. PAR and Chicana feminism place at the heart of research the knowledge that ordinary people produce, referring to this…
Descriptors: Feminism, Action Research, Collaborative Writing, Participatory Research
Galletta, Anne; Jones, Vanessa – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2010
Our article is based on a study of our integration of social foundations coursework with filmmaking and participatory action research, bringing teacher candidates and middle and high school students together. The project was carried out in partnership between an urban university and two nearby public schools within a Midwestern city known for high…
Descriptors: Poverty, Urban Universities, Action Research, Nonprint Media
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