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Krista Senatore – Reading Teacher, 2024
The author, a fifth-grade teacher, describes how she reimagined the literary essay curriculum to amplify student identity, agency, and voice by creating a class podcast. Because of their similar structure and organization, teaching students literary analysis and interpretation through podcast writing offered entry into literary essays. The author…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Essays, Self Concept, Personal Autonomy
John Brown – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2024
Education is naturally transformative, but the acquisition of new skills and construction of new knowledge are only possible when we empower students instead of forcing their conformity. Our current compliance-based teaching methodologies rely on coercion, conditioning and external motivators that engender submission and fear in students and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, College Faculty, Undergraduate Students
Tavernaro-Haidarian, Leyla – SAGE Open, 2020
Among many challenges in the space of education in the global South, we find that curricula are often out of touch with the contextual reality of students and that classroom or lecture-hall sizes are too big to engage a critical majority. Therefore, reimagining educational processes, or aspects thereof, becomes imperative. This article proposes…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Classroom Communication, Teaching Methods, Student Experience
Frawley, Emily – English in Australia, 2020
This paper considers the work of James Gee as a methodological lens for conceiving of the teacher-writer identity. Gee's (2000) Four Ways to View Identity are employed to examine the way that teachers discuss their writing identity. The paper reports on findings from a broader qualitative study that examined the writer identity in subject English…
Descriptors: Authors, Self Concept, Teacher Attitudes, Professional Identity
Sujung Kim, Editor; Leigh Garrison-Fletcher, Editor; Kaysi Holman, Editor – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2024
This book provides concrete examples of humanizing collectivist critical pedagogy, which creates a learning space with students, values their mutual-agency, and invites them to play a leading role in remaking higher education. It redefines student success to include an understanding of positionality, macro social structures, and agency. Each class…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Collectivism, Social Structure, Class Activities
Reynolds, Mary Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this dissertation was to further support female students success in mathematics as it related to the classroom and beyond. The study documented girls' experiences and feelings about math learning and contextualized their responses by comparing them to those of their male classmates. This study provided insights to what educators can…
Descriptors: Females, Identification (Psychology), Mathematics Instruction, Gender Differences
Kim, Won – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2021
Despite a wide-spread pedagogical interest and scholarly conviction in the possibilities of educational drama for creating more contextually-situated, engaging, and multi-modal L2 learning experiences (Piazzoli, 2018; Stinson & Winston, 2011), there is scarce empirical evidence concerning what is actually taking place interactionally in L2…
Descriptors: Drama, Teaching Methods, Adult Education, Second Language Learning
MacMaoilir, Eóin; McGillicuddy, Deirdre – Education and Urban Society, 2023
Internationally, there is increasing concern regarding the disengagement of marginalized students, particularly girls, from the formal education system, particularly since COVID-19. Students experiencing oppression/marginalization within urban education systems are considered at-risk from poor attendance, early school leaving, underperformance,…
Descriptors: Females, At Risk Students, Learner Engagement, Self Concept
Andrew McNally – English Journal, 2019
The personal essay remains pervasive in high school classrooms, but many curriculum leaders have shifted to stressing the importance of evidence-based, argumentative writing. Some teachers have rightfully lamented this shift, noting that the evidence-based turn in writing instruction comes at the expense of student voice and expression. Students…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Self Concept, Writing (Composition), Educational Objectives
McArthur, Sherell A.; Lane, Monique – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2019
This article explores Black feminist pedagogical practices as a viable intervention alternative to traditional methods of educating Black girls. The authors highlight two qualitative research studies that applied Black feminist praxis to non-traditional urban classroom contexts, in order to facilitate the social and intellectual empowerment of…
Descriptors: Feminism, Teaching Methods, Urban Schools, Equal Education
Andrea Marie Barela – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Jeffrey Duncan-Andrade (2009) wrote that if failure to provide quality education continues, it will not be because we lack the know-how to effectively educate all children, it is because we lack the resolve to do it. As a steadfast leader of teaching and collaborating with children, Duncan-Andrade mentors hope in students and teachers alike. This…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Personal Autonomy, Praxis, Educational Quality
Casanova, Saskias; Mesinas, Melissa; Martinez-Ortega, Sarait – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2021
Educators are often unaware of assets Mexican Indigenous children possess that originate from their cultural practices. Using Critical Latinx Indigeneities and Indigenous Heritage Saberes, our studies focus on three unique Indigenous learning communities that provide opportunities of empowerment for these students. We examine the experiences of…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, American Indian Students, Student Empowerment
Lakkala, Suvi; Uusiautti, Satu; Kyrö-Ämmälä, Outi; Grönfors, Perttu – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2020
In this study, we assessed how Finnish teachers' professional actions support their students' engagement and positive self-image at school. This qualitative multimethod study is comprised of three sub-studies: (1) the research Data Set A included pedagogical reflective journals, observations of, and interviews with, two Finnish teachers and their…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Learner Engagement, Learning Activities, Teaching Methods
Starr-Glass, David – Journal of International Students, 2016
A sense of strangerhood, which is different from social isolation or cultural alienation, is common among many of the international students whom I encounter. In a world increasingly preoccupied with personal interaction and social exchange, many of these students perceive strangerhood as problematic and inherently negative. This brief reflection…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Foreign Students, Social Isolation, Alienation
Zabenah, Rachel – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Across the United States, systems of education are failing, and this dysfunction is characterized by both academic underachievement and overachievement. This research was an investigation of whether a purpose-driven curriculum contributed to student success in school and in life. This dissertation was intended to inform school systems about…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Academic Achievement, High School Students, Program Descriptions