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Toward a Critical Hermeneutical Approach of Human Rights Education: Universal Ideals, Contextual Realities and Teachers' Difficulties
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Zembylas, Michalinos; Charalambous, Panayiota; Charalambous, Constadina; Lesta, Stalo – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2017
The present paper takes the approach of critical hermeneutics in human rights education (HRE) that has been developed theoretically and tries to operationalize it in pedagogical practice. In particular, a group of Greek-Cypriot teachers were trained in a series of workshops on how critical hermeneutical approach (CHA) could be taught in the…
Descriptors: Hermeneutics, Teaching Methods, Civil Rights, Foreign Countries
Exploring Interconnections between Local Ecological Knowledge, Professional Identity and Sense of Place among Swedish Fishers
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Garavito-Bermúdez, Diana; Lundholm, Cecilia – Environmental Education Research, 2017
The ecological knowledge of those who interact with ecosystems in everyday-life is situated in social and cultural contexts, as well as accumulated, transferred and adjusted through work practices. For them, ecosystems represent not only places for living but also places for working and defining themselves. This paper explores psychological…
Descriptors: Ecology, Animal Husbandry, Social Environment, Cultural Context
Taking Root in Foreign Soil: Adaptation Processes of Imported Universities
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Graham, Terrece F. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ushered in a period of change in higher-education systems across the former Eastern bloc. Reform-minded leaders in the region sought to introduce western models and policies promoted by foreign development aid agendas. Private higher-education institutions emerged. This qualitative multiple case study examines…
Descriptors: Universities, International Education, International Cooperation, Foreign Countries
Comparative "Glocal" Perspectives on European Teacher Education
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Caena, Francesca – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
This article reports the findings of a PhD study, which offers comparative perspectives on teacher education in a period of reforms, inquiring into stakeholders' perceptions in English, French, Italian and Spanish contexts as case studies. The interaction of needs and constraints in European initial teacher education within higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Comparative Analysis, Educational Change
Social Justice Leadership in Action: The Case of Tony Stewart
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Canfield-Davis, Kathy; Gardiner, Mary E.; Joki, Russell A. – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2009
Reflecting on the 140th anniversary of the Fourteenth Amendment (ratified July, 1868), this qualitative case study described a response by educator-activist Tony Stewart to the Aryan Nations, a neo-Nazi hate group that attempted to intimidate Stewart's community, Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, between 1972-2000. Stewart galvanized community response using…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Activism, Social Justice
Distance Education Strategy: Mental Models and Strategic Choices
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Adams, John C.; Seagren, Alan T. – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2004
What issues do distance education (DE) leaders believe will influence the future of DE? What are their colleges' DE strategies? This qualitative study compares DE strategic thinking and strategic choices at three community colleges. Two propositions are investigated: (1) each college's DE leaders use common strategic mental models (ways of…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Strategic Planning, Educational Trends, Influences