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Heritage-Language Education Policies, Anti-Racist Activism, and Discontinuity in 1970s and 1980s Toronto
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Bale, Jeff; Kawaguchi, Mayo – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2020
This paper examines the intersection of heritage-language education advocacy with anti-racist activism in the 1970s and 1980s in Toronto. The province of Ontario initiated the Heritage Languages Program in 1977. By focusing on discontinuities in the policy's implementation, the paper identifies multiple strategies that Black anti-racist activists…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Educational Policy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Twitter Gets Favorited in the Education Debate
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Supovitz, Jonathan – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
The author describes how the interactive study of social media's effect on the Common Core debate was designed and executed. Important findings from the study were: 1) We live in an increasingly interconnected social world. 2) Media has evolved over the last half century from a passive system dominated by a few central opinion makers to the…
Descriptors: Debate, State Standards, Program Descriptions, Social Networks
Activism or "Slacktivism?": Digital Media and Organizing for Social Change
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Glenn, Cerise L. – Communication Teacher, 2015
The influence of social media and technological developments has changed how groups and organizations advocating for social change generate awareness and participation in their causes. In this single class activity students will (a) analyze notions of activism and "slacktivism" from scholarly and popular sources to apply these concepts…
Descriptors: Activism, Social Change, Consciousness Raising, Influence of Technology
Stories from Intercultural Education in Serbia: Teacher Leadership and Parent Participation
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Vranješevic, Jelena; Frost, David – European Education, 2016
This article explores the potential of teacher leadership as a strategy to promote intercultural education by empowering parents and members of ethnic minority groups to participate in the life of the school. It links the idea of participation for social justice with the goals of intercultural education within the context of the APREME (Advancing…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Teacher Leadership, Foreign Countries, Minority Groups
Dare the School Build a New Social Order?
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Robinson, Tony – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2000
Asserts that service learning proponents are divided over direct charity versus justice advocacy models, with many claiming a need for justice advocates to moderate their philosophy in order to secure long-term support. Claims that despite justice advocacy's trouble institutionalizing itself (e.g., Settlement House, Students for a Democratic…
Descriptors: Activism, Advocacy, Citizen Participation, Dissent
Somerville Youth Council
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Owadokun, Remi Manoela; Aviles, Pearlie – New Directions for Youth Development, 2005
In the Fall of 2004, after many years of discussion by adults in the City of Somerville, Massachusetts, the Somerville Youth Council started. For several months, a youth planning group met weekly to craft the mission of the council and the by-laws. There was a critical need to create a process to enable youth of the city to explore possible…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Student Leadership, Student Participation, Student Government