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Meagan Call-Cummings; Giovanni P. Dazzo; LeAnne Beardsley; Jeffrey Blibo – Educational Action Research, 2023
In participatory action research (PAR), university-based researchers often take foundational concepts such as transformation, empowerment, critical consciousness, and mutual understanding for granted as desirable or necessary outcomes or achievements. We discuss the danger of this and suggest that researchers recognize these as processes that…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, Transformative Learning, Empowerment
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Carlos P. Hipolito-Delgado; Dane Stickney; Ben Kirshner; Courtney Donovan – Urban Education, 2024
Critical pedagogies often prioritize critical thinking and social awareness at the expense of preparing urban youth for social action. Though sociopolitical efficacy is argued to bridge critical reflection and social action, this relationship is undetermined. We argue that critical reflection and sociopolitical efficacy are independent predictors…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Critical Thinking, Consciousness Raising, Political Socialization
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Meerts-Brandsma, Lisa; Sibthorp, Jim – Journal of Transformative Education, 2021
This study examines semester schools, which have elements associated with transformative learning, and an adolescent population, where transformative learning has less commonly been studied. We administered the Learning Activities Survey pre/post semester (n = 173) and followed the survey with semistructured interviews (n = 30) to assess whether…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, High School Students, Adolescents, Student Attitudes
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Lopez, Enrique J.; Ortiz, Jose – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2022
In this article, we explore features of a summer program intended to support the personal and academic development of non-dominant high school youth. We focus on one particularly robust practice in the program known as encuentros -- daily gatherings intended to build community and collective sense-making. We draw on field notes and videos to…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, High School Students, Transformative Learning, Summer Programs
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Amy Vetter; Mark Meacham – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2018
Purpose: For writing instruction, reflection has been an essential tool. Typically, educators ask students to reflect in a structured written, individual format. Less explored is the role that small and whole group reflective conversations have in fostering students' understandings about writing. The purpose of this paper is to explore several…
Descriptors: High School Students, Camps, Resident Camp Programs, Enrichment Activities
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Goldberg, Tsafrir – London Review of Education, 2017
Much of the concern with young people's historical knowledge centres on factual attainment or disciplinary skills. However, relatively little attention is paid to the relevance that young people attribute to history and how they use the past, and various social representations of history, to relate to the present. Research in this realm tends to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Historical Interpretation, Conflict Resolution, Arabs
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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
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Chavarria, Karina – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2017
Social reproduction scholars and the literature on critical race theory and student resistance contend that schools are not neutral institutions existing in a vacuum free of the political and social struggles for rights and resources (Delgado Bernal, 1998; Fine, 1991). Instead, schools can be institutions that reproduce dominant ideologies and…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Participant Observation, High School Students, Citizen Participation
Truong-White, Hoa; McLean, Lorna – Canadian Journal of Education, 2015
This article explores how digital storytelling offers the potential to support transformative global citizenship education (TGCE) through a case study of the Bridges to Understanding program that connected middle and high school students globally using digital storytelling. Drawing on a TGCE framework, this research project probed the curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transformative Learning, Citizenship Education, Discourse Analysis
Harrell-Levy, Marinda Kathryn – ProQuest LLC, 2012
These three papers test existing educational and identity development theory regarding the phenomenon of transformative pedagogy and its effectiveness, in order to determine the predictive ability of a class on morals and ethics with transformative goals during eleventh or twelfth grade Social Justice towards transformed individuals later in life.…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Teaching Methods, Social Justice, High School Students
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Parkhouse, Hillary – New Educator, 2015
In this article, I examine the potential for developing preservice social studies teachers' understanding of transformational resistance, Latin@ civil rights movements, and culturally sustaining pedagogy through a project using the film Precious Knowledge. This documentary depicts high school students in a Mexican American Studies (MAS) program…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Sustainability, Films, Educational Media
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Kommers, Piet, Ed.; Issa, Tomayess, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed.; Hui, Wendy, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
These proceedings contain the papers and poster of the 6th International Conference on Educational Technologies 2019 (ICEduTech 2019), which has been organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and co-organised by the Lingnan University, in Hong Kong, February 8-10, 2019. ICEduTech is the scientific…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Elementary School Students, Reflection, Computer Mediated Communication