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Dana E. Tottenham; Juan C. Gonzáles; Rosa Maria Acevedo; Jennifer A. Lund; Richard J. Reddick; Victor B. Sáenz – Texas Education Review, 2024
This study considers the experience of education abroad alumni through a social justice lens. We leverage literature that places systemic change at the fore, underscoring the importance of addressing deeply ingrained attitudes, behaviors, and perceptions that perpetuate systemic inequalities or hinder progress. Practitioners and scholars have…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Ambiguity (Context), Career Change, Alumni
Dana Elizabeth Tottenham – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study considers the intersections of education abroad and alumni engagement through a social justice lens. This research examines the "cultural imperative to systemic reform" (Kozaitis, 2013, p. 139) through the perspective of higher education's integration of education abroad as a core high-impact practice (Kuh,…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Social Justice, Alumni, College Graduates
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Terzi, Lorella; Unterhalter, Elaine; Suissa, Judith – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2023
The harmful effects of COVID-19 on children living in poverty have refocused attention on the complex nature of child poverty and the vexed question of its relationship to education. The paper examines a tension at the heart of much discussion of child poverty and education. On the one hand, education is often regarded as essential for children's…
Descriptors: Poverty, Outcomes of Education, Transformative Learning, COVID-19
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Retha Knoetze – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Neoliberal practices such as managerialism and academic casualisation impact higher education systems globally. While these practices can constrain any curriculum aimed at enabling transformative learning, this paper shows that they place particular limitations on arts and humanities curricula intent on cultivating criticality and a sense of…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Neoliberalism, Formative Evaluation, Teaching Methods
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Pherali, Tejendra; Abu Moghli, Mai; Chase, Elaine – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2020
Education in contexts affected by mass displacement is typified by political instability, the marginalization of refugee learners, and a lack of educational resources, including learning spaces, relevant curricular materials, and mechanisms for the accreditation of learning that takes place outside formal educational institutions. In these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Teacher Student Relationship, Faculty Development
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Earle, Rod; Mehigan, James; Pike, Anne; Weinbren, Daniel – Journal of Prison Education and Reentry, 2020
In 2019, The Open University (henceforth, The OU), based in Milton Keynes in the UK, celebrated its 50th anniversary. Since 1971 it has pioneered the delivery of Higher Education in prisons and other secure settings. Some 50 years on, in 2021 there is much to celebrate and still more to learn. In this article we briefly review the establishment of…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Foreign Countries
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Andrea Golloher; Matthew Love; Lisa Simpson; Sudha Krishnan – Journal of Special Education Preparation, 2022
Teacher educators are in a unique position to prepare future educators to disrupt the status quo and enact changes that ensure equitable access to educational opportunities for all students, including those with disabilities. It is critical that those who prepare future special education teachers (SETs) ensure they are prepared to engage with the…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Change Strategies, Educational Opportunities, Accessibility (for Disabled)
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Keyl, Shireen – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2021
This article examines the functionality and ideological underpinnings of an NGO system in Beirut, Lebanon. This grassroots NGO, in partnership with the Migrant Community Center and migrant domestic workers from African and Southeast Asian countries, creates an educational space that is both transformative and liberatory. This activist space is…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Educational Change, Nongovernmental Organizations, Immigrants
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McGrath, Simon; Ramsarup, Presha; Zeelen, Jacques; Wedekind, Volker; Allais, Stephanie; Lotz-Sisitka, Heila; Monk, David; Openjuru, George; Russon, Jo-Anna – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2020
The SDGs mark the clearest global acceptance yet that the previous approach to development was unsustainable. In VET, UNESCO has responded by developing a clear account of how a transformed VET must be part of a transformative approach to development. It argues that credible, comprehensive skills systems can be built that can support individuals,…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Transformative Learning, Educational Change, Economic Development
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Fornauf, Beth S.; Mascio, Bryan – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2021
The Rural Teacher Residency (RTR) program prepares teachers to work in 'high need' rural schools in the northeastern United States, and specifically works to establish a counter-narrative to the commonly-held deficit lens applied to these schools and communities. Framed by theory and research on DisCrit and Universal Design for Learning (UDL), we…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Access to Education, Educational Practices, Preservice Teachers
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Friberg, Torbjörn – Critical Studies in Education, 2015
In the light of some recent transformations in higher education, a moral governance of university teachers is starting to emerge, suggesting a decrease of professional autonomy. By drawing on the idea of Gilles Deleuze's "clinical analysis", the aim of this article is to re-problematize the increasingly common moral image of students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Holistic Approach, Victims of Crime
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Weller, Martin; de los Arcos, Bea; Farrow, Rob; Pitt, Beck; McAndrew, Patrick – Open Praxis, 2015
The OER Research Hub has been investigating the impact of OER, using eleven hypotheses, and a mixed methods approach to establish an evidence base. This paper explores the findings relating to teaching and learning. The findings reveal a set of direct impacts, including an increase in factors relating to student performance, increased reflection…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Open Education, Open Source Technology, Mixed Methods Research
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Scott, Mary Alice; Pyne, Kimberly B.; Means, Darris R. – High School Journal, 2015
To address the persistent failure of schooling to support underserved students, youth participatory action research (YPAR) has emerged as an alternative and critical paradigm for educational practice. YPAR re-centers authority on marginalized voices and understands research as a tool for social change. Grounded in critical pedagogy, such projects…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Action Research, Participatory Research, Educational Practices
Byrd-Jones, Shannon L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Effective professional development training is essential to ensuring full technology integration in all classrooms by all teachers on a regular basis. Technology integration can greatly enhance the learning of all students. In particular students with disabilities and special needs benefit a great deal from the use of technology during…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Access to Education, Educational Technology, Special Education
Keppell, Mike; O'Dwyer, Carolyn; Lyon, Betsy; Childs, Merilyn – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2011
This paper examines a core leadership strategy for transforming learning and teaching in distance education through flexible and blended learning. It focuses on a project centred on distributive leadership that involves collaboration, shared purpose, responsibility and recognition of leadership irrespective of role or position within an…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Distance Education, Leadership, Transformative Learning
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