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Jason R. Swisher – ProQuest LLC, 2021
As the record number of forcibly-displaced persons in the world continues to rise, more people of differing origins are sharing space and trying to live together. Prolonged displacement has turned into permanent resettlement and citizenship. To reflect this geopolitical transformation, education too must transform. In this vertical case study, I…
Descriptors: Youth, Refugees, Relocation, Educational Change
Ezra Jonah Greene – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem is that secondary school students within an education system in a small island Caribbean state are not performing at the required academic standard. The purpose of the study was to explore the perceptions of the Ministry of Education and Public Service Commission regarding the recruitment and selection of prospective principals with…
Descriptors: Principals, Personnel Selection, Administrator Attitudes, Secondary School Students
F. Tyler Gidney – ProQuest LLC, 2024
A number of social and ecological justice educators have long recognized the need for educational institutions to foster the development of a critical interest in civic engagement. They also have recognized the lack of appropriate education for students who are already civically engaged. One popular way to address this context in higher education…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Transformative Learning, Citizenship Education, Citizen Participation
Karen Denise White – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Despite decades of passing civic initiatives to revitalize civic education, youth citizen participation, and young adult voter registration is low--most youth cannot even name one member of U.S. Congress. It also cannot be assumed youth will naturally become civically engaged and aware through their family and community. In addition, people of…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Citizen Participation, Teaching Methods, Social Change
Ava Gilani Jacobs – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purposes of this action research study were to: investigate the ways I was able to support my students' self and social transformation through their analysis of the inequities in the literature and unearth how I used my leadership role to promote and foster conditions necessary for a teacher in my grade level to adopt culturally relevant…
Descriptors: Action Research, Literature, Social Change, Teaching Methods
Robertson, Christine Coughlin – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Environmental education (EE) is grounded in the idea that the process of teaching-learning can transform how individuals interact with and behave toward the environment, and in turn support the long-term health and sustainability of the planet. Yet even after decades of EE programming, widespread changes in human behavior related to the…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Behavior Change, Sustainability, Ecology
Macias, Trinidad – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The number of students from Saudi Arabia studying in the United States is increasing; this study focused on understanding Saudi women studying in the United States. A qualitative phenomenological approach was used to address the main research question: What are the perceptions of Saudi women on their experiences as international college students…
Descriptors: Arabs, Foreign Students, College Students, Student Attitudes
Hersey, Page Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Human rights education (HRE) holds the potential for educators to begin an honest dialogue with students and to connect local issues with international struggles for human rights. However, HRE and other teaching approaches that build understanding of systems of power and oppression that lead to human rights violations are not widely embraced in…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Social Justice, Transformative Learning, Action Research
Meeker, Joy – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This inquiry considers the role of emotions and conflict in education practices which align with social justice. The classroom is a significant location to learn and practice resourceful responses to conflict and to the emotions that accompany conflict, and can itself be considered a site of conflict intervention. This research questions how U.S.…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Emotional Response, Teaching Methods, Feminism
Barnes, Thelma C. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Researchers have acknowledged that cooperative extension organizations should rethink dominant agricultural foci and be more inclusive of nontraditional audiences. An extension organization in the southeastern United States has experienced declining workshop participation, requests for technical assistance, and local office visits. These declines…
Descriptors: Universities, Extension Education, Extension Agents, Transformative Learning
Fish, Michael Charles – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examines how critical mathematical literacy teachers conceptualize their practices and how those practices were demonstrated in the classroom. Practices were considered from an ontology of mathematics education, specific to critical mathematical literacy, in which classroom interactions question what it means to do mathematics as an…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Interaction
Dolan, Maureen A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The subject of this inquiry is to explore university students' stories of transformation from the practice of integral yoga in an undergraduate course exploring human biology, health, and spirituality. The stories of participants give evidence for successful educational performance when yoga and meditation are combined with academic learning in…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Physical Activities, Mental Health, Relaxation Training
Perez, Shireese Redmond – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this qualitative study was to answer the research questions of how middle-aged women perceive higher education and why they do or do not pursue a higher level of education. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2009 American Community Survey microdata, more than half of the women between the ages of 30-50 years in one Midwestern US…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Program Effectiveness, Females, Social Change
Martinez, Becky – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to reveal perceived sustainable behaviors, attitudes, and feelings related to racism and social justice of the graduates of the Social Justice Training Institute. Methodology: A descriptive methodology approach was used to collect data. The researcher conducted telephone interviews with 35 graduates of the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Transformative Learning, Graduates, Interviews
Kean, Patricia Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Current literature suggests the institution of higher education is exploring its identity and role in society, much like the emerging adults who enroll in their programs as traditional aged undergraduates. Literature also reveals that society is asking undergraduate institutions to meet the diverse needs of its students and prepare them for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, Role of Education, Student Organizations
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