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Yidan Zhu; Mona Askary; Taiwo Isaac Olatunji; Ruoyi Qiu – Commission for International Adult Education, 2023
This literature review paper aims to explore the current state of transformative learning theory in a global context by examining how scholars from different world regions understand, utilize, and develop transformative learning theory in their own contexts. Transformative learning theory has been a significant framework for investigating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transformative Learning, Global Approach, Social Change
Federica Liberti – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2024
By using the feminist imaginary as a pedagogical tool for resistance and change, an experience of activism within the university context in Naples, Italy is explored. The article focuses on the potential transformative power of art as catalysis for deeper level emotional and spiritual learning transformation. The aim is trying to inspire critical…
Descriptors: Feminism, Imagination, Social Change, Art
Brandt, Cyril; Kithumbu, Olga; Kuliumbwa, Eustache; Marchais, Gauthier – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2023
Education can instil conscientisation and stimulate action against injustice. The Batwa ('pygmy') people in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have been severely marginalised. In 2012-2013, violent conflict broke out in Tanganyika, pitting Batwa against dominant groups. Our qualitative interviews evoked a causal relationship between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civil Rights, Citizenship Education, Violence
Ayaka Nakano – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2024
This paper examines how public education can ensure equity and diversity by clarifying the "democratic aspects" that can be captured through school-community collaborative activities in Japan and the U.S. As a result of comparison and analysis, it is indicated that in both Japan and the U.S., these activities are conducted in the context…
Descriptors: Democracy, Equal Education, School Community Relationship, School Community Programs
Maison, Léa Marie – Journal of Transformative Education, 2023
This article discusses the contributions of different worldviews to the debates on what a transformative sustainability education could be. It focuses on mainstream and alternative strands of thought present in the West, as well as Indigenous worldviews, taking the Zapatistas as an example. The Zapatista social movement of Mexico fights for the…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Political Socialization, Transformative Learning, Foreign Countries
Ezra Jonah Greene – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem is that secondary school students within an education system in a small island Caribbean state are not performing at the required academic standard. The purpose of the study was to explore the perceptions of the Ministry of Education and Public Service Commission regarding the recruitment and selection of prospective principals with…
Descriptors: Principals, Personnel Selection, Administrator Attitudes, Secondary School Students
Yoshie Tomozumi Nakamura; Mayuko Horimoto; Jessica Hinshaw – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2024
The purpose of the study is to understand how Japanese women become social entrepreneurs. The challenges in fostering women's entrepreneurship include socio-cultural traditional views on women's roles and expectations and insufficient support systems. Despite such challenges, the rise of Japanese women as social entrepreneurs has been observed in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Japanese, Asian Culture, Females
Rankin, Lisa; English, Leona M. – Journal of Transformative Education, 2022
This article examines the experience of six participants in the Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network (BTS) delegation program. Human rights education is central to this program that operates between Canada and Guatemala. Key findings from this research include participants' rethinking of their own power and privilege upon returning to…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Civil Rights, Social Change, Transformative Learning
Mehmet Fatih Döger – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2025
The aim of this study is to interpret the roles and models of teachers, as the most fundamental actors of education, through their own narratives. This research employs a qualitative case study methodology, utilizing semi-structured interviews with a group consisted of eleven master's and doctorate teachers working in Türkiye in the field of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate School Faculty, Doctoral Programs, Masters Programs
Erica Christine Campbell – Power and Education, 2025
Educational institutions are expected to play a significant role in preparing people to function well in society. Although critical thinking and problem-solving skills are necessary, people also need to have a social conscience. Educators should, therefore, pay more attention to moral education. Jesus Christ developed and implemented a moral…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Social Change, Learning Theories
Karla Lopez-Murillo – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Mexico is the main Latin American country sending students abroad for international education. In 2020, 34,781 Mexican students were enrolled in higher education institutions (HEIs) outside their country of origin. From those, 37% studied in a European country. The National Science and Technology Council (CONACYT) has funded international student…
Descriptors: Mexicans, Doctoral Students, Decision Making, Student Attitudes
Tristan Bunnell; Nicola Savvides – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2024
The continuously growing field of private English-speaking international schooling has always involved a dichotomy of approach. The marginal 'internationalist' approach, ideologically committed to nurturing unity and global peace, is exemplified by the cadre of United World Colleges (UWC). The UWCs began in 1962 and now number 18 globally…
Descriptors: Minicourses, Residential Programs, International Schools, Global Approach
Ochan Leomoi – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2025
Dadaab Refugee Complex hosts refugees from the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region. According to a UNHCR (2023) report, at 31 January 2023 Dadaab refugee camps were host to a total population of 233,828 registered refugees and asylum seekers, representing 41% of the total recognized forcibly displaced people in Kenya. This paper will explore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Relocation, Attitudes
du 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
Caylin Louis Moore – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
How can disproportionate elite political, economic, and social power -- the essence of inequality -- be challenged peacefully and democratically with empowerment from below through critical pedagogy? Paraguay presents a fascinating case study to address this question, especially considering how its history of colonization, authoritarianism, and…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Colonialism, Transformative Learning, Critical Theory