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Allison Mok – ProQuest LLC, 2024
A systematically disproportionate amount of Black and Brown students have struggled in their high school (HS) math courses, particularly with inclusion, identity, and academic success. This study came from a humbling journey of what it meant for a math educator to shift toward student-centered pedagogies within a deficit-oriented system of…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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VanderDussen Toukan, Elena – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
If service-learning is to fulfill its potential to contribute to meaningful social change, scholars and practitioners must consider how service might foster a dynamic relationship between knowledge, the learner and the community. This paper challenges modernist conceptions of knowledge as a 'commodity' that can be delivered and consumed, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Change, Service Learning, Correlation
Johansson, Charity; Felten, Peter – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014
The recent trend of trying to measure higher education's return on investment misses a fundamental point, argue Charity Johansson and Peter Felten. The central purpose of a college or university is to transform the lives of students--not to merely change them or help them mature. This transformation is an ongoing process of intentionally aligning…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Transformative Learning, Self Concept
Sullivan, Debra R. – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2011
Watching babies learn to walk can teach one a lot about himself/herself and one's ability to change. Changing one's self, perspectives, or assumptions requires: (1) the determination and perseverance to persist; (2) the openness to believe that if one can't change now, maybe he/she can later; (3) the ability to take a stand, even if one knows it…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Personality Change, Personality Development, Transformative Learning