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Frederique A. Demeijer; Marlies J. Visser; Eduardo Urias; Léa M. Darvey; Annemarie Horn; Marjolein B. M. Zweekhorst – Journal of Transformative Education, 2024
To fulfil its third mission and equip students with the appropriate competencies to address complex societal issues, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) offers undergraduates the chance to learn about issues that transcend the confines of their own discipline through the cross-disciplinary Broader Mind Course (BMC). This study investigates to what…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Transformative Learning, Social Problems
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Lina Markauskaite; Baruch Schwarz; Crina Damsa; Hanni Muukkonen – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2024
The importance of engaging students with complex societal challenges has led to the adoption of various interdisciplinary teaching and learning practices in both K-12 and higher education. However, interdisciplinary learning is one of the most complex domains of contemporary educational practice, and, despite its significance, remains…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Practices, Social Problems
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Asri Wijayanti; Zamzani; Suhardi – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/Purpose: Indonesian Stand-up Comedy (SUCI) Comics use comedy to articulate concerns on societal issues, hence offering social critique. Abdurrahim Arsyad presented a social critique regarding schooling at the special program "Pahlawan Perlu Tanda Jasa 'Heroes Need Honors' (HNH)". An effective SUCI encompasses the comedians'…
Descriptors: Indonesian, Humor, Discourse Analysis, Social Problems
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Sean Blenkinsop; Linda Wihelmsson – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2024
This paper has two main purposes. The first, more informational, is to introduce, re-introduce, the German-Nordic concept of "Bildung" to Canadian environmental education. This includes a brief attempt to define, a short overview of its history which stretches back to the Eighteenth century at least, and then an exploration of why and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Social Justice, Educational Policy
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Peng Zhang; Enze Guo – Human Rights Education Review, 2024
As China increasingly engages in global human rights mechanisms, it has demonstrated a commitment to reforming its national curriculum. Through examining textbooks published during Xi Jinping's tenure, this study investigates how China embeds human rights issues in the English language curriculum. The findings indicate that the human rights issues…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Propaganda, Foreign Countries, National Curriculum
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Genejane M. Adarlo; Urduja C. Amor; Agnes D. Garciano; Juliet Q. Dalagan – Journal of College Student Development, 2024
Service learning can prepare undergraduate students with the necessary civic capacities and commitments for today's solutions to wicked social problems. However, most studies on the civic outcomes of service learning, such as civic-mindedness, are student self-reports on surveys given at the end of an academic term. A more nuanced understanding of…
Descriptors: Civics, Service Learning, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
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O'Connor, Peter; Gregorzewski, Moema – Teachers and Curriculum, 2022
Underpinning drama education in New Zealand is the desire to improve the lives of individuals, communities and societies by catalysing embodied learning in and through the art form of theatre. Learning in drama is intended to foster well-being, social cohesion and active citizenship. Put another way, drama education in New Zealand has always been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Drama, Teaching Methods, Indigenous Knowledge
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William F. Heinrich; Benjamin Lauren; Sandra Logan – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
This article shares a case study of an experiential learning framework designed specifically for supporting learning in courses focused on human and environmental justice. We argue that our educational practices must substantially change to be accountable to each other as we address social issues and explore societal solutions. Findings from…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Social Justice, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices
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Ngar-Sze Lau; Thomas Kwan Choi Tse – British Journal of Religious Education, 2024
Starting with an initiative called Buddhicised education, there have been calls to reform Chinese Buddhism for a century. Based on documentary research of textbooks and in-depth interviews, this paper examines the reform of Buddhicised education in Hong Kong since 2000. Facilitated by the Hong Kong government's education reform, Buddhicised…
Descriptors: Buddhism, Religious Education, Social Change, Development
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Solrun Samnøy; Miranda Thurston; Hege Eikeland Tjomsland – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
Objective: This paper explores the expectations of teachers to contribute to fostering students' wellbeing in the revised Norwegian curriculum. A new construct in the curriculum is three interdisciplinary topics -- health and life skills; democracy and citizenship; and, sustainable development -- included to give priority to prevailing societal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Well Being, Social Problems
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Wu, Wenxi – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2021
Liberal Studies (LS), a high-stakes senior secondary school subject in Hong Kong, has evoked widespread debate in recent years concerning the curriculum content about Mainland China. Highlighting the deregulated textbook policy on this subject as adopted by the Hong Kong Education Bureau (EDB), this paper compares how specific socio-political…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Liberal Arts, Textbooks
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Hernández-Hernández, Fernando; Sancho-Gil, Juana M. – Educational Governance Research, 2018
In the last 40 years, Spain became from a country of emigrants to a destination for immigrants. The 0.46% of immigrants of 1975 (165,000 of 36,012,682 people) went up to 12% (5,598,691 of 46,063,511) in 2009. The sudden demographic, economic, social, cultural, political and educational consequences of this move have been considerable. In this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Social Problems, Educational Change
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Babaii, Esmat – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2022
English language teaching has always been treated as a socio-cultural issue in post-revolutionary Iran. Fueled by anti-imperialist sentiment, the political authorities diagnosed Western influence as the major ailment of the society. Having to accommodate for the undeniable virtue of learning English for international communication, educationalists…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Textbooks
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Lailatussaadah; Jamil, Asyraf Isyraqi Bin; Kadir, Fakhrul Adabi Bin Abdul – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
This research aims at finding out the implementation formula of entrepreneurship education at the university. The searching of electronic journal articles by using database such as: JSTOR, SAGE, Proquest, Elsevier, Emerald Insigth, and Google Scholar from 2009 until the end of October 2019. The keywords: "entrepreneurship education,"…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Universities
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Durrani, Rukhsana; Malik, Samina; Jumani, Nabi Bux – Pakistan Journal of Distance and Online Learning, 2019
The concept of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) grasps attention of the world after the UN decade (2005-2014) of Education for Sustainable Development. People from all over the world realized the need of its integration on all levels of education. This study was also designed to explore the level(extent) of integration of the components…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Curriculum
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