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Sales, Auxiliadora; Portera, Agostino; Milani, Marta – Intercultural Education, 2023
The training of professionals for a global world remains a challenge for Higher Education. From an intercultural educational approach, this study describes and analyses two educational proposals in Italy and Spain, which have helped to develop students' intercultural competences, thanks to a teaching framework based on participatory strategies. A…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Case Studies, Diversity, Critical Thinking
Ashcraft, Catherine; Eger, Elizabeth K.; Scott, Kimberly A. – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2017
Drawing from our two-year ethnography, we juxtapose the experiences of two cohorts in one culturally responsive computing program, examining how the program fostered girls' emerging identities as technosocial change agents. In presenting this in-depth and up-close exploration, we simultaneously identify conditions that both facilitated and limited…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Change Agents, Culturally Relevant Education, Anthropology
Tournier, Barbara; Chimier, Chloé; Childress, David; Jones, Charlotte – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2023
To improve teaching and learning outcomes, teachers and head teachers need whole-system support to build professionalism and enhance their practice. Roles at the middle tier of education systems, or those professionals working between the school and central level, offer unique capacities to facilitate collaboration, broker knowledge, scale…
Descriptors: Middle Management, Instructional Leadership, Case Studies, Foreign Countries
Gunning, Ciara; Holloway, Jennifer; Grealish, Leanne – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2020
Parental involvement in intervention can support intervention efficacy, improve generalization, and increase accessibility. The Preschool Life Skills (PLS) program is designed to teach 13 preschool life skills and prevent problem behavior. The current study explores the utility of the PLS program as delivered by parents. In Experiment 1, 6 parents…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Change Agents, Parent Child Relationship, Intervention
Buchbinder, Dina – Childhood Education, 2022
As we work to educate our children in effective ways, supporting their efforts to make a positive difference reaps benefits for both students and society.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Sustainable Development, Play, Trauma
Aaron J. Sams; Lee Kenneth Jones; Walter Smith – Pennsylvania Teacher Educator, 2022
By participating in global projects, students learn to communicate, asynchronously or synchronously, through digital tools and media. The project in this article paired pre-service teachers in the United States with primary students, ages 8 to 10, in South Korea. The intent was to expose pre-service teachers to global collaboration projects, and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Social Change, Change Agents
Wright, Mary C. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023
Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTLs) are important change agents on campus with strategies that are unique and impactful--but sometimes unarticulated or misaligned. In this wide-ranging book, Mary C. Wright maps the landscape of 1,200+ CTLs in the United States through a unique approach: by conducting complex web searches to identify and…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educational Strategies, Online Searching, Classification
Burgess, Cathie – Critical Studies in Education, 2019
This paper problematises the concept of cultural competence in teacher professional learning arguing instead for opportunities to develop critical reflexivity in the ongoing construction of a pedagogical cultural identity. In the Aboriginal context within Australia, this research study demonstrates how attaining cultural knowledge, understandings…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Faculty Development, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations
Mokuria, Vicki G.; Wandix-White, Diana – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2020
This narrative inquiry highlights the experiences of self-identified Soka educators in a PreK-12th grade school in São Paulo, Brazil, as well as volunteers through a program called "Soka Education in Action." Through their narratives, the role of care in value-creating education is explored as a critical aspect of education that supports…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Experience, Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy
Möller-Recondo, Claudia; D´Amato, Juan-Pablo – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2020
The purpose of the present work is to rethink, in the university context, the concept of genius, related to the high intellectual abilities associated with intelligence; also, to connect the idea of entrepreneurial competences, such as leadership or social commitment. The hypothesis is that a university genius is defined by his high creative…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Entrepreneurship, Gifted, Creativity
History Curriculum and Teacher Training: Shaping a Democratic Future in Post-Apartheid South Africa?
Tibbitts, Felisa L.; Weldon, Gail – Comparative Education, 2017
Issues of transitional justice are central to countries moving away from identity-based conflict. Research tends to focus on the most well-known forms of transitional justice, like truth commissions. Far less attention has been given to education as a form of transitional justice, and even less to teacher professional development, even though…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Foreign Countries, Democracy, Social Change
Dubiner, Deborah; Deeb, Inas; Schwartz, Mila – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2018
This study was conducted within the context of bilingual Arabic-Hebrew medium preschools in Israel which were established to incorporate instruction in the native languages of both majority and minority children in the classroom. Bilingual education in various settings produces a wide variety of outcomes in terms of language proficiency, cultural…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Change Agents, Teacher Attitudes, Semitic Languages
Nganga, Lydiah – Journal of International Social Studies, 2016
The teaching force in the United States of America is still predominantly white and monolingual. Yet, the U.S. population is rapidly becoming culturally and ethnically diverse. As a result, white teachers have expressed doubt in their efficacy in teaching students whose cultures are different than theirs (Helfrich & Bean, 2011). The purpose of…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods, Childrens Literature
Martínez-Álvarez, Patricia – Curriculum Inquiry, 2017
Focusing on two bilingual children experiencing learning difficulties, I explore the scientific representations these students generate in an afterschool programme where they have opportunities to exercise agency. In the programme, children use a digital camera to document science in their lives and engage in conversations about the products they…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Learning Problems, After School Programs
Emerson, Lesley – Journal of Peace Education, 2012
This article suggests that opportunities exist to harness the potential of history and citizenship education with the processes of transition in developing programmes, which support young people in exploring conflict and the challenges associated with attending to its legacy. Drawing on the experience of Northern Ireland, it is suggested that the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Conflict, Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education
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