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Download full textOstertag, Julia; Ammendolia, Justine; Vance, Alexandra; McPherson, Kerri; Hamelin, Kayla M.; Cousineau, Maryse; Daoud, Dounia; Morissette, Lyne; Orren, Kimberly; Hill, Amy; VanderKloet, Evelien; Whoriskey, Fred; Iverson, Sara; Sutherland, Maggie; Denny, Shelley; Beland, Joseph; Syliboy, Alanna; Stokesbury, Michael J. W.; Porter, Darren – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2021
In this article, we consider the role of ocean literacy in coastal communities as an approach that fosters relevant, community-based learning. We also propose solutions to challenges facing human-ocean relationships by cultivating common understanding and collective action. We present four examples of community-based ocean literacy in…
Descriptors: Community Education, Oceanography, Foreign Countries, Social Action
Direct linkdu Val d'Epremesnil, Diane – Religious Education, 2021
This article investigates a life education initiative from India, directed at children from primary to the end of secondary school. Over the course of the program, students learn to connect with their emotions and values, to understand that their lives are made of stories, and that they have a place in the larger community as agents of change.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Indians, Change Agents, Program Descriptions
Park, Na-Eun; Choe, Seung-Urn; Kim, Chan-Jong – Asia-Pacific Science Education, 2020
Climate change education (CCE) programs should foster citizen response to climate change by integrating knowledge/skill development with reflection on the need for actively changing current social systems and personal actions. An analytical framework was developed to examine 16 Korean and international CCE programs to identify (1) structure and…
Descriptors: Climate, Environmental Education, Social Action, Foreign Countries
Fassetta, Giovanna; Imperiale, Maria Grazia; Aldegheri, Esa; Al-Masri, Nazmi – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2020
This article discusses the process of negotiating the storyline for videos developed as part of an online Arabic language course. The project was guided by a social-justice-through-education agenda, explicitly aiming to redress the high unemployment rate of language graduates in the Gaza Strip. We illustrate how the international team designing…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Video Technology, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning
Goulah, Jason – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2020
This article examines contributions to the ethic and practice of cosmopolitanism by Japanese educators Makiguchi Tsunesaburo, Toda Josei and, most significantly, Ikeda Daisaku. Collectively, they are "the philosophers of the Soka movement" that Rizvi and Choo refer to in their call for a special issue on "Asian…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Citizenship Education, Japanese, Foreign Countries
VanderDussen Toukan, Elena – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
If service-learning is to fulfill its potential to contribute to meaningful social change, scholars and practitioners must consider how service might foster a dynamic relationship between knowledge, the learner and the community. This paper challenges modernist conceptions of knowledge as a 'commodity' that can be delivered and consumed, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Change, Service Learning, Correlation
Kletchka, Dana Carlisle – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2018
Critical museological perspectives have in recent years opened up new conceptual spaces for emerging forms of art museum practice. This article addresses the theme of changing ideologies and methodologies in art museums by offering an anecdote shaped by art museum practices, then theorizing potential responses from object-based, visitor-centered,…
Descriptors: Art, Museums, College Faculty, Social Responsibility
Ioannidou, Elena; Kiourti, Elisavet; Christofidou, Christina – Research Papers in Education, 2019
The current paper presents data from a social literacy programme implemented in the prison school in Cyprus for 18 months. The programme was theoretically informed by critical literacy, genre pedagogy, multimodality and non-formal education and it aimed to opt away from skill-based, autonomous and corrective models of literacy education that are…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Education
Antunes, Fátima; Barros, Rosanna – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
This article intends to empirically document the ambiguity, even ambivalence, of governance practices , through the study of a public policy in Portugal, the Programme InovAction, that stimulates intervention projects in 'local state of emergency' territories. In this way, we search to contribute to the debate around the reform of the State and…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Intervention
Ariza, Nur Natasha – Childhood Education, 2020
Twenty-six years after the 1994 founding of The Kalsom Movement, an independent and voluntary student-led charity specializing in tackling education inequality in Malaysia, much has changed in the world. Yet despite the rise of societal and governmental awareness on the importance of education--especially primary education--and the advancements in…
Descriptors: Student Leadership, Equal Education, Access to Education, Educational History
McLachlan, Kath; Rawlings-Sanaei, Felicity; Mason, Colina; Haski-Levanthal, Debbie; Nabeel, Hussein – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2017
Professional and Community Engagement (PACE) at Macquarie University offers undergraduate students experiential learning opportunities with local, regional and international partners. Through PACE, students work on mutually beneficial projects that both meet the partner's organizational goals and enable students to strengthen graduate capabilities…
Descriptors: Social Change, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students
Bull, Anna – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2016
This article asks why classical music in the UK, which is consumed and practiced by the middle and upper classes, is being used as a social action program for working-class children in British music education schemes inspired by El Sistema. Through exploring the discourse of the social benefits of classical music in the late nineteenth century, a…
Descriptors: Social Class, Gender Differences, Sexual Identity, Music Education
Timm-Bottos, Janis – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2011
This article describes a 9-month community action project that took the form of an art studio located in a thrift store. The purpose of the project was to creatively reduce clothing fabric waste from unused donations, and also to document the social justice and ecological issues involved in clothing production and distribution. Collaboration with…
Descriptors: Social Action, Art Therapy, Clothing, Retailing
Low, Bronwen E.; Sonntag, Emmanuelle – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2013
In response to the task of designing curriculum that helps youth engage thoughtfully with digital stories of human rights violations, the authors articulate the central tenets of a pedagogy of listening that draws upon elements of oral history, concepts of witnessing and testimony, the work on listening of Dewey, Freire and Rinaldi and the…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, War
Zanchetta, M. S.; Kolawole Salami, B.; Perreault, M.; Leite, L. C. – Health Education Research, 2012
Health education for socially marginalized populations challenges the efficacy of existing strategies and methods, and the pertinence of the educational and philosophical principles that underpin them. The Brazilian Community Health Agents Initiative (CHAI) hires residents of deprived marginalized communities to undertake health promotion and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Civil Rights, Health Education
