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Yang, Miaoyan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
Since 2015, China has established a 'Group Form of Educational Aid for Tibet' programme to dispatch ethnic Han majority teachers from inland cities to teach in Tibetan schools for a short period of time. Through the programme, the state aims to offer the gift of educational development to this highland area with a concentrated Tibetan minority…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Asians, Program Descriptions, Educational Development
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Yoxall, Matthew – Research in Drama Education, 2018
Certain repeated moral narratives support justifications for humanitarian interventions, and simultaneously inform perspectives of 'the figure of the refugee'. How does 'the humanitarian' appear in these narratives? How are the characters of 'the refugee' and 'the humanitarian' constructed in relation to one another? How does their interlinkage…
Descriptors: Refugees, Land Settlement, Neoliberalism, Theater Arts
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Sampson, Carrie; Overholser, Amber; Gatti Schafer, Josie – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2019
Nonprofit community-based organizations (CBOs) increasingly provide services that are traditionally thought to be a governmental responsibility. Through a qualitative case study, we examine the role, politics, and sustainability of a nonprofit CBO aimed at expanding opportunities for underserved youth. Our findings explain how this CBO worked to…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Community Organizations, Sustainability, Case Studies
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Dutta, Urmitapa; Andzenge, Andrea Kashimana; Walkling, Kayla – Journal of Peace Education, 2016
A critical task for peace pedagogy is to challenge views of peace as primarily responses to declared war. Crisis-based politics tend to focus on exceptional situations and fail to capture the entire spectrum of violence. Premised on the idea that peace cannot be understood in isolation of larger structural problems, this paper proposes the concept…
Descriptors: Peace, Program Descriptions, Educational Innovation, Teaching Methods
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Johnson, Matthew – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2016
In the context of higher tuition fees, the Government's employability agenda and growing concern for defined career development strategies among young people, there is a need more effectively for Politics programmes to foster the capacity to communicate politics. Without communicating the implications and relevance of politics the subject and the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Undergraduate Students, Departments, Foreign Countries
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Goldner, Limor; Golan, Daphna – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
The current study identified factors contributing to the long-term perception of meaningful civic engagement in a sample of Israelis involved in extra-curricular civic-engagement programs as students. Using a qualitative research method supported by quantitative analyses, we found that five to 10 years after completing higher education, most…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Jews, Extracurricular Activities, Individual Development
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Blankers, Batya; Zweynert, Joachim; Weingärtner, Jörn; Ehlers, Jan P. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
In 2014, the Faculty of Management and Economics at Witten/Herdecke University introduced its first international programme, the MA PPE, which served as a test case within the overall internationalisation strategy. Despite the challenges detailed in this paper the overall implementation deemed successful. The university derived many valuable…
Descriptors: International Education, Educational Philosophy, Foreign Students, Institutional Mission
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Mc Kenna, Declan; Mooney Simmie, Geraldine – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2017
The School Completion Programme (SCP) was first established in Ireland in 2002 with what appeared to resemble a "bottom up" model of support. The programme was based on authentic effort at partnership with schools, parents and relevant agencies through local management committees and enjoyed a fair share of autonomy in how they would…
Descriptors: Governance, Program Descriptions, Disadvantaged, Educational Attainment
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Helskog, Guro Hansen – Educational Action Research, 2015
The overarching question addressed in this paper is the following: Can Dialogos dialogues conducted over time lead to the development of respect, mutual understanding and friendship among participants with diverse cultural and life stance backgrounds? Dialogos is a pedagogical approach to practical philosophy aimed at enhancing human maturity and…
Descriptors: Ethics, Politics, Intergroup Relations, Religious Cultural Groups
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Veltri, Barbara Torre – Journal of International Social Studies, 2015
Preparing teacher candidates for their roles in 21st century schools calls for direct experiences with inquisitive, linguistically diverse, and often technologically savvy students across global and economic contexts. This article presents the lessons learned from a practicum experience during a semester abroad in Italy, where faculty, teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Practicums, Foreign Countries, Study Abroad
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Cammarota, Julio – Multicultural Perspectives, 2014
This essay reviews Latina/o students' counter-narratives challenging colorblindness. The author highlights the experiences of students from Tucson Unified School District's Mexican American Studies program. By examining student counter-narratives, the author also identifies race-related terms that are more suitable for dialogue among and with…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Personal Narratives, Race, Racial Bias
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Hayhoe, Ruth; Pan, Julia; Zha, Qiang – Frontiers of Education in China, 2013
This article looks at a series of university linkages between Canadian and Chinese universities that were supported by the Canadian International Development Agency as a result of a development agreement signed in 1983 between the two governments. It first reviews relevant theoretical literature on higher education in a global context, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Cooperation, Management Development, Program Descriptions
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Berman, Kim – Teaching Artist Journal, 2012
In this article, the author discusses how art, politics, and life intersect in a South African community visual arts studio program that seeks to educate artists as change agents. Artist Proof Studio (APS) was founded in 1991 and responded to the challenge of building democracy in a postapartheid South Africa. It is a community art center in…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Democracy, Educationally Disadvantaged, Change Agents
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Clover, Darlene E.; McGregor, Catherine – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2011
Women's Campaign School (WCS) is a non-partisan, non-formal three-day educational programme held annually in Vancouver, to empower and inspire women to enter politics and as a means towards socio-political change. Our findings show the WCS provides excellent practical and tactical skills and an experiential learning opportunity that is highly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feminism, Females, Experiential Learning
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Muller, Floris – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2012
Interethnic contact is considered a potent tool for the generation of interethnic understanding and tolerance. This faith has engendered countless social projects that seek to stimulate contact between members of different ethnic groups under "optimal conditions". However, the academic literature does not stipulate how, if at all, these…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Conflict of Interest, Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication
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