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Borrero, Noah; Ziauddin, Asra; Ahn, Alexandra – Critical Questions in Education, 2018
This paper presents the voices of thirteen pre- and in-service teachers to showcase their perspectives of culturally relevant pedagogy as a teaching framework. Positionality, critical consciousness, and cultural assets are used as foundations to explore social justice pedagogy. These new teachers discuss the challenges they face in making the…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Culturally Relevant Education, Ethnicity, Social Justice
Watt, Diana – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2017
This paper represents a critical reflection on youth and community work students' response to a module on race equality and diversity. An awareness of issues in relation to power and oppression are amongst the core elements of youth and community work training. Throughout their study, youth and community work students are engaged in conversations…
Descriptors: Race, Social Justice, Student Diversity, Power Structure
Singh, Melissa I. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
As the landscape of America changes, it is critical for social workers to successfully engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate diverse client populations. As such, it is important for schools of social work to prepare graduate students to engage in "diversity and difference in practice" (Council on Social Work Education, 2015, p. 7).…
Descriptors: Social Work, Caseworkers, Graduate Students, Qualitative Research
Linder, Chris; Myers, Jess S.; Riggle, Colleen; Lacy, Marvette – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2016
Using Internet-related ethnography (Postill & Pink, 2012), we examined the role of social media in campus sexual violence activism. Based on observations of online activist communities and interviews with 23 activists, we highlight raising awareness, community building, and interrupting power dynamics as activism strategies enhanced by social…
Descriptors: Violence, Activism, Social Media, Sexual Harassment
Kearns, Laura-Lee; Kukner, Jennifer Mitton; Tompkins, Joanne – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2014
In this article we share the impact of a training program (Positive Space I and Positive Space II) on pre-service teachers' understandings of and abilities to create safe spaces for Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgendered and Queering/Questioning (LGBTQ) youth and allies in our teacher-education program and in schools. Research has demonstrated…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Consciousness Raising, Educational Environment, School Safety
Tai, Juan-Ann – Research in Dance Education, 2012
This case study focuses on a group of teachers' and students' opinions regarding the recent reforms in the dance department of Tainan University of Technology (TUT) in Taiwan. The author uses Pierre Bourdieu's theory of forms of capital and symbolic violence to probe for the motivation, process and consequences of the changes brought about by…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Higher Education, Dance, Power Structure
Curnow, Joe – Gender and Education, 2013
In this paper, I employ situated learning theory to explore gendered processes of marginalisation and conscientisation in a social movement organisation. Using a student activist organisation as a case study, I explain women's awareness of and resistance to masculine performances of leadership and decision-making through the concept of…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Social Organizations, Student Organizations, Activism
Kenis, Anneleen; Mathijs, Erik – Environmental Education Research, 2012
Individual behaviour change is fast becoming a kind of "holy grail" to tackle climate change, in environmental policy, the environmental movement and academic literature. This is contested by those who claim that social structures are the main problem and who advocate collective social action. The objective of the research presented in…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Social Action, Climate, Role
Bender-Slack, Delane – English Education, 2010
Delane Bender-Slack takes on the important subject of teaching for social justice. Her article's strength is in its uncompromising look at complex, often misinterpreted teaching challenges. This article focuses on actual teachers working for social justice in their classrooms. Working from a strong theoretical framework, she pushes us in new…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Social Change, Language Arts, English Teachers

Miller, Ron – Paths of Learning: Options for Families & Communities, 2002
The originators of partnership education describe it as a progressive, holistic, gender-balanced perspective on teaching and curriculum. The inclusion of the feminist perspective allows it to escape the power paradigm on which traditional education is based and focus on moral purpose and caring relationships. Ways to apply partnership theory to…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction