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Direct linkGroot, Barbara C.; Schrijver, Janine; Abma, Tineke A. – Educational Action Research, 2023
Participatory health research (PHR) and the use of arts-based methods continues to grow in popularity. Many scholars acknowledge the importance of (visual) ethics, especially in the dissemination of photographs in a digital age, but ethical issues that arise in relation to contact with the press and social media are not well documented. This…
Descriptors: Mass Media, Social Media, Ethics, Photography
Piya Kishore – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study explores male allyship, a growing trend in the Technology (Tech.) sector, from the perspective of women who work or have worked in the industry. This qualitative case study consisted of a sample of ten women and ten self-identified male allies from the industry along with three men and four women who participated exclusively in a focus…
Descriptors: Adults, Gender Differences, Gender Issues, Technology
DePalma, Claire – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The suffering racism creates is endless. For too long, the burden of speaking out and taking action against racism has fallen on Communities of Color. Higher education needs people inside the system to actively resist its racism by implementing antiracist policies and practices. White people, and white women in particular, comprise a majority of…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Females, Racism, Praxis
Karen W. Caldwell – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2024
International children's picture books provide windows and mirrors for children and allow them to consider issues of fairness, justice, equity, diversity, and the common good as they build their nascent citizenship skills. One powerful pedagogy that supports the use of rich curriculum and thoughtful discussions is critical literacy, a subset of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, Picture Books, Social Studies, National Standards
Pia Mikander; Henri Satokangas – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2024
Democracy is increasingly being challenged, by disengagement and by anti-pluralist movements (Levitsky and Ziblatt in How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future, Viking, New York, 2018; Wikforss in "Därför demokrati. Om kunskapen och folkstyret" [Because of this, democracy. On knowledge and people's rule] Fri Tanke, 2021;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Democracy, Democratic Values, Cultural Pluralism
Jessica N. Hoyle; Jan Warren-Findlow; Lauren Wallace; James N. Laditka; Sarah B. Laditka – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Background: Many people view people with intellectual disability primarily as needing help. That perspective limits relationships and can promote discrimination. We sought to better understand social relationships among young adults with intellectual disability. Method: Seven postsecondary students with intellectual disability participated in a…
Descriptors: Photography, Social Action, College Students, Students with Disabilities
Toni Ingram – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2024
This article draws on feminist new materialist theory to examine the relations in-between queer-bodies, clothing and the schooling environment. Working with Karen Barad's agential realist concepts of intra-action and entanglement, queer-bodies and clothing are conceptualized as material-discursive phenomena, co-constitutive and emergent through…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Human Body, Clothing, Educational Environment
Navarro, Christine D.; Steele, Michelle Cummings – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2021
Events, movements, and tragedies at the local, national, and global levels spark conversations that influence leaders' thinking and behavior. Understanding complexities of contextual factors as they relate to broader conversations and influence thinking and behaviors is a crucial step that can be overlooked. This article explores utilizing…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Critical Thinking, Social Justice, Praxis
Download full textOstertag, Julia; Ammendolia, Justine; Vance, Alexandra; McPherson, Kerri; Hamelin, Kayla M.; Cousineau, Maryse; Daoud, Dounia; Morissette, Lyne; Orren, Kimberly; Hill, Amy; VanderKloet, Evelien; Whoriskey, Fred; Iverson, Sara; Sutherland, Maggie; Denny, Shelley; Beland, Joseph; Syliboy, Alanna; Stokesbury, Michael J. W.; Porter, Darren – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2021
In this article, we consider the role of ocean literacy in coastal communities as an approach that fosters relevant, community-based learning. We also propose solutions to challenges facing human-ocean relationships by cultivating common understanding and collective action. We present four examples of community-based ocean literacy in…
Descriptors: Community Education, Oceanography, Foreign Countries, Social Action
Sankofa, Nicole – American Journal of Evaluation, 2021
Needs assessments (NAs) for marginalized communities would ideally contextualize needs in the sociocultural context, use agency-supportive methods, and result in liberatory action planning. This article develops the Transformative Needs Assessment With Marginalized Communities (TNAMC) using a mixed-methods approach that examines internal and…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Disadvantaged, Evaluation Methods, Adolescent Development
Maaly Younis – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Learning in adulthood should be a meaningful experience through which adult learners are able to re-examine their values and beliefs acquired over the years. Mezirow (1978a, 1978b)stated that learners' engagement with this process of reflection and making meaning leads to a change in one's perspective. To facilitate such a transformational…
Descriptors: Photography, Social Action, Research Methodology, Transformative Learning
Larri, Larraine J. – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2022
This article discusses the contribution of craftivism to climate justice learning through the practices of Australia's Knitting Nannas Against Gas and Greed (aka KNAG or the Nannas). Framing activist adult learning as social movement learning locates environmental and climate justice struggles within lifelong learning practices. Established in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Justice, Handicrafts
Chang, Yu-Yu; Wannamakok, Wisuwat; Kao, Chia-Pin – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
This study draws on the Theory of Planned Behavior to empirically examine the relationships between attitude toward behavior, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control and university students' social entrepreneurial intentions, while also examining the moderating roles of entrepreneurship education and academic major. Through multiple…
Descriptors: College Students, Entrepreneurship, Professional Education, Intention
Sapir, Adi – Higher Education Quarterly, 2022
This paper aims to provide an historical perspective on the development of higher education's 'third mission' of social engagement. I explore how practices and structures of 'social engagement' emerged in the Israeli higher education field in the 1970s and early 1980s. Drawing on archival research in three universities' historical archives, and on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Social Action, Institutional Mission
Thao, Le Thanh; Tu, Tran Thi Cam; Hue, Vo Thi Kim; Lap, Trinh Quoc – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2022
Teaching adult learners is not an easy mission for instructors. Among many factors affecting adult learners' learning, motivation seems to be the most significant. Studies on adult learners' motivation, especially on Vietnamese ones who pursue political science programs to become leaders in government offices and in the private sector, are still…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Learning, Student Motivation, Teacher Attitudes
