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Morgan Leopold; Julia Hargrove; Sarah Marrone; Gillian Jennings; Ryan Max – Professional School Counseling, 2024
Feelings of empowerment among students are crucial prerequisites to their participation in change agency in both educational and non-educational settings. Educators notice a compelling correlation between student empowerment and academic achievement and other positive outcomes in K-12 educational environments. School counselors are optimally…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Elementary Secondary Education, School Counselors, Power Structure
Crystal W. Otubuah – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This critical action research study demonstrated the importance of creating liberatory learning environments for Black and Brown student scholars through culturally relevant pedagogy. Decolonization paradigms were employed to understand the impact of colonization and how it currently influences educational structures for Black and Brown students…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Student Empowerment, Educational Environment, Power Structure
Mandy Dunphy – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explores the dynamics of a formal classroom and an informal nature-based learning environment, focusing on their impact on student subjectification and knowledge authority. The study, conducted with a cohort of 27 fifth-grade students and their teacher, employs a comparative case study methodology to analyze how teaching…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Informal Education
Learning and Teaching to Empower Students: Thematic Peer Group Report. Learning & Teaching Paper #24
Stephen Rutherford, Editor; Nigel Francis, Editor; Helene Peterbauer, Editor – European University Association, 2025
Societal expectations are rising for higher education to help learners develop into engaged, responsible and resilient citizens of the world. Against this backdrop, the 2024 EUA Learning & Teaching Thematic Peer Group 'Learning and teaching to empower students' explored a crucial prerequisite for cultivating these qualities in graduates: an…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Higher Education, Student Centered Learning, Power Structure
Dianne T. Wellington; Amy Walker – Voices from the Middle, 2024
In this article, the authors focus on how educators can use their responsibility and power to create learning spaces that foster change by empowering Black and Brown students to emancipate themselves through a process of critically dreaming (Wellington, 2023). The authors approach this work as a West Indian Black woman and a white woman from the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Advocacy, Community Education, Classroom Environment
Brookfield, Stephen D. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2015
This chapter considers how doctoral education, particularly in applied settings such as education, social work, counseling, and health care, could be reimagined if it was organized around the idea and process of critical reflection: of helping students to better understand how power operates in educational environments and how students' sense of…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Social Work
Kirk, Chris Michael; Lewis, Rhonda K.; Brown, Kyrah; Karibo, Brittany; Park, Elle – Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Despite spending more money per student than almost all developed nations, the United States lags behind in educational indicators with persistent disparities between privileged and marginalized students. Most approaches have ignored the role of power dynamics in predicting student performance. Building on the existing literature in school climate…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Empowerment, Student Surveys, Measures (Individuals)
Goodman, Joan F.; Eren, Nimet Suheyla – Ethics and Education, 2013
Students in urban under-resourced schools are often disengaged from the curriculum. Distributing voice (agency) to them would seem an obvious counter to their alienation, allowing them to be co-constructors rather than objects of their education. Beyond being pragmatically sound, student agency is, arguably, a psychological and moral imperative.…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Urban Schools, High School Seniors, Economically Disadvantaged
Lovorn, Michael; Sunal, Cynthia Szymanski; Christensen, Lois McFadyen; Sunal, Dennis W.; Shwery, Craig – Journal of Research in International Education, 2012
This article explores perspectives and strands of thought among teachers from five countries about power dynamics in learning environments, perspectives on power of dominant cultures and impacts of power on concepts of citizenship and social justice. Discourses revealed teachers have some understanding of how power impacts teaching and learning,…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences
Chen, Xiaoning – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2010
Through a theoretical framework that builds on constructs of identity, community of practice, power relations, and investment (Blackledge & Pavlenko, 2001; Gee, 2001; Norton, 2000; Peirce, 1995; Wenger, 1998), this educational ethnographic study (Preissle, 1999) explores one English-as-a-new-language (ENL) student's identities within and across…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Self Concept, Power Structure, English (Second Language)
Wang, Ya-huei – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2010
The purpose of this study is to determine whether a pedagogy grounded in dialogical ideals has the potential to empower students to make changes in English classroom interaction. The study first scrutinized the traditional "banking" educational system in English classrooms in which students were passive learners to realize students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Carr, Diane – London Review of Education, 2010
In this paper the online construction of disability is investigated and the implications for educators working in virtual worlds are considered. Based on the analysis of data collected through interviews with deaf residents of "Second Life", it is argued that research into online identity, disability and education needs to allow room for…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Disabilities, Deafness, Special Needs Students
DeVitis, Joseph L., Ed.; Irwin-DeVitis, Linda, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2010
Written by a prominent array of scholars and practitioners, this book elucidates the complexities, contradictions, and confusion surrounding adolescence in American culture and education. For too long, harmful public myths and lies have portrayed teenagers as a principal cause of our nation's social ills. Similar unfair charges have been lodged…
Descriptors: Caring, African Americans, Females, Democracy