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Harrell-Levy, Marinda K.; Kerpelman, Jennifer L.; Henry, Daniel J. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2016
Transformative urban high school teachers utilize a transformative pedagogical style in their classrooms to augment students' learning experiences and cultivate development in their students. Largely unexamined, however, is how the tools of transformative pedagogy used in secondary classrooms compare with those used in other contexts and with…
Descriptors: High Schools, Secondary School Teachers, Teaching Styles, Transformative Learning
Morales, Daniel Morales; Bettencourt, Genia M.; Green, Keisha; George Mwangi, Chrystal A. – Educational Forum, 2017
Through a yearlong, qualitative ethnographic study that incorporated a youth participatory action research project, this research identifies and documents the learning outcomes achieved when core principles of critical pedagogy are brought into practice with urban Latinx youths to develop critical awareness. Analysis reveals three themes around…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Ethnography, Action Research, Participatory Research
Petersen, Morten Rask – Journal of Biological Education, 2017
This study considers how students change their coherent conceptual understanding of natural selection through a hands-on simulation. The results show that most students change their understanding. In addition, some students also underwent a transformative experience and used their new knowledge in a leisure time activity. These transformative…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Hands on Science, Simulation, Biological Sciences
Nkuyubwatsi, Bernard – Cogent Education, 2016
While teachers play an important role in education and supporting learning, many learners in under-resourced settings are not privileged to have access to teachers. Some of these underprivileged learners deal with the issue by engaging in self-determined and self-directed learning. Their efforts sometimes pay off with access to formal higher…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Open Source Technology, Employment Potential, Student Needs
Curry, Marnie W. – American Educational Research Journal, 2016
This case study documents a small, urban high school that implements firewalks, innovative rites of passage in which low-income, racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse youth publicly reflect on their personal and academic development. Drawing from anthropological scholarship on rites of passage and scholarship on color-conscious care, I…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Low Income, Cultural Pluralism, Academic Achievement
Weiss, Elizabeth Rocio – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Linked Learning is an approach that has proven effective in transforming the learning experiences for high school students. An instrumental case study was conducted in a large urban district in Southern California where district and school leaders implemented Linked Learning as a systemic high school reform initiative. Analysis of the data…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Districts, Interviews, High School Students
Alongi, Marc D.; Heddy, Benjamin C.; Sinatra, Gale M. – Journal of Social Science Education, 2016
Controversial issues have been established within the larger framework of civic education as an effective pedagogical approach to developing critical thinking in the classroom, preparing students with intellectual habits necessary for participation in scholarship, civic life and democracy. In this study, we found that a pedagogical intervention,…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Social Studies, History Instruction, Teaching Methods
Fisette, Jennifer L.; Walton, Theresa A. – Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The authors argue for creating a context within education where teachers can utilize critical pedagogical practices to explicate the hidden curriculum, explore students' sense of self and embodied identities, and engage students to empower themselves to speak up and take action about issues of embodiment and their understanding of social…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Social Change, Human Body, Hidden Curriculum
Herrington, Deborah G.; Yezierski, Ellen J. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
The recent revisions to the advanced placement (AP) chemistry curriculum promote deep conceptual understanding of chemistry content over more rote memorization of facts and algorithmic problem solving. For many teachers, this will mean moving away from traditional worksheets and verification lab activities that they have used to address the vast…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Faculty Development, Chemistry, Science Curriculum
Walker, Tracy; Molnar, Tim – Journal of Transformative Education, 2013
This work examines the experience of secondary school students involved in authentic science inquiry (ASI) at the Canadian Light Source. We suggest this experience is a transformational learning experience for participants. Using evidence from surveys and interviews from a total of 119 high school students, 23 teachers, and 18 scientists…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Research, Surveys, Interviews
Bautista Urrego, Lizmendy Zuhey; Parra Toro, Ingrid Judith – HOW, 2016
This article reports on a qualitative, descriptive, and interpretative research intervention case study of English as a foreign language students' construction of perceptions on social issues found in famous works of art. Participants in this study engaged in the practice of critical thinking as a strategy to appreciate art that expresses social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning
Winans-Solis, Jaime – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2014
This qualitative case study investigates how service-learning may enable self-direction and the development of a critical consciousness for marginalized high school students by exploring the dynamics of service-learning through a theoretical framework of critical theory. Service-learning is theorized to counter the oppressive nature of schooling…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Service Learning, Disadvantaged, Teaching Methods
Gray, Tonia; Birrell, Carol – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2015
With growing disconnection from the natural world, educators who work in the outdoors need to philosophically rethink their "modus operandi". Past efforts by adventure and outdoor educators to promote connection with nature have often centred upon risk-centric approaches incorporating adventure-fuelled and high-adrenalin activities. This…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Program Descriptions, Educational Philosophy, Adventure Education
Gibson, Kerry; Cartwright, Claire – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2014
This study explores how adolescent clients construct the purpose and outcome of counselling. A narrative analysis was performed on interviews with 22 clients (aged 16--18) who had used a school-based counselling service. The aim was to identify the purpose and outcomes that participants attributed to their counselling experience. The analysis…
Descriptors: Counseling, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Services, Client Characteristics (Human Services)
Drago-Severson, Eleanor; Blum-Destefano, Jessica; Asghar, Anila – Journal of School Leadership, 2013
Currently, scholars and practitioners seek to improve leadership programs so that educational leaders can more effectively support adult development--especially since it is connected to improved student achievement. Interview findings presented here stem from a larger mixed methods study. This research investigated how a university course on…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Leadership Training, College Instruction, Interviews
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