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Alexander Maier – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2024
The demand for solidarity is made today by different social actors, e.g., from politics, religion or philosophy. Especially in the context of climate change and its social and ecological consequences, the demand for solidarity plays a major role. It is often referred to as the climate justice crisis. Therefore, solidarity can also be understood as…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Transformative Learning, Life Style, Values
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Vlasta Ilišin; Nikola Baketa – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2024
The paper is based on the concept of political culture, which is particularly important for the maintenance and functioning of a democratic political system and is closely linked with the political literacy of young people. In this paper research focus is on the two dimensions of political culture -- political values and trust. Specifically, the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Political Issues, Values, Trust (Psychology)
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Eddie Playfair – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
This article considers how to approach the task of developing a curriculum for social justice at a time of planetary and systemic crisis, on the basis that both 'human capital development' and passing on 'the best that has been thought and said' from the past are inadequate responses. If our aim is to create the conditions for human survival and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Social Justice, Values, World Views
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Sarah Adams; Patti H. Clayton; Lynn E. Pelco – Assessment Update, 2024
Is assessment a top-down bureaucratic mandate, an undertaking that seems to have little to do with improving practice, an inauthentic activity that frustrates and disempowers, an afterthought? Or is it a process embraced and enacted together by all stakeholders as a means to learn and grow and enact change in the world? The authors of the…
Descriptors: Democracy, Stakeholders, Colleges, Partnerships in Education
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Tonner, Philip – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2022
This paper, while not presenting a general discussion of authority in education, attempts to uncover some of the anomalies, paradoxes and tensions in the concept. It will argue for a revaluation of authority as an educational virtue, as a form of participatory guidance that is an aid to growth. The paper intends to help provoke continued debate…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Expertise, Guidance, Values
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Bullough, Robert V. – Democracy & Education, 2022
Mission statements and public statements of values are widely recognized as important for educational improvement, even if often ignored. The mission statements and supporting documents of Utah's 41 school districts were analyzed to locate prominent themes and significant omissions. An unexpected and disturbing neglect of democratic citizenship…
Descriptors: Public Education, Position Papers, School Districts, Democracy
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Rosalind M. O. Pritchard – Tertiary Education and Management, 2024
British higher education is ranked among the best in the world, but some of its core values are under strain. Knowledge and critical thinking can be undermined by biased mind-sets, especially when engaging with the social media. Research demonstrates that false news goes viral much more quickly than true news. Political correctness and the woke…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Values, Government Role
DeVitis, Joseph L., Ed. – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2022
Just as our society is polarized, higher education is no less divided as to its mission and purpose, whether it should be preparing students for employment or for engagement as citizens, whether it should be corporatist and profit-driven or promote intellectual curiosity and independent thinking, and whether it should pursue a neoliberal agenda or…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Role, Social Bias, Racial Bias
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Hilde Hjertager Lund – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
The research on Early Childhood Education and Care leadership has mainly focused on the kindergarten manager's perspectives. However, to fully understand leadership in ECEC settings, the middle-management level of pedagogical leaders must be included. The distributed framework is applied to investigate how the pedagogical leaders at the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Child Care, Kindergarten
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Kleine, Karynne L. M.; Lunsmann, Christina J. – Middle Grades Review, 2019
In this essay, a broad spectrum of the work of influential educational scholars was examined in order to identify crucial components of teaching for democracy. Synthesizing the literature with their experiences as middle level teachers and teacher educators, the authors determined those conceptions that would be most fruitful for moving…
Descriptors: Democracy, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Educators, Citizen Participation
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Heasly, Berise – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2021
The central concept within this research work is Edu-tensegrity. It is the foundation of the Heasly Thinking Skills System and uses a geodesic dome as a refreshed visual depiction of the many varied elements in the whole world of education, given paradigm changes within lived experience of 21st century education. This system uses a disciplined use…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teaching Skills, Educational Change, Sustainability
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Chan, Yun-Wen – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Environmental and sustainability education cannot disconnect itself from politics. In order to achieve sustainable societies, we need approaches that educate students capable of coping with the political complexities of environmental issues in a civic environmental context. This study proposes a pluralistic environmental citizenship approach based…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Citizenship, Civics, Foreign Countries
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Day, Katie – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2022
This article is a reflection on the teaching of public theology in two very different contexts: in a Protestant seminary in the US (1985-2019) and an underground seminary in Nazi Germany (1935-1937). The author analyzes her teaching career over years of change, both institutional and social, that challenged pedagogical methods to remain relevant…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Protestants
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Knight-Abowitz, Kathleen; Stitzlein, Sarah – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
In this study, we employ discourse analysis of US gubernatorial political advertisements to analyze the discursive struggles over the purposes of public schools. The advertisements are analyzed to demonstrate how rhetoric works to shape consent for dominant, human capital views regarding schooling's purposes, as well as to communicate alternative…
Descriptors: Public Education, Advertising, Politics of Education, Figurative Language
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Ross, Alistair – London Review of Education, 2020
This article argues that many young people (11 to 19) in Europe articulate a construction of their identity that includes a European element. This articulation is often initially made in instrumental terms, but through deliberative discussion can move to become more idealistic. The data is drawn from over 300 small discussion groups across 29…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civil Rights, Youth, Values
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