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Goulah, Jason; Urbain, Olivier – Journal of Peace Education, 2013
In this article, the authors introduce and explicate Daisaku Ikeda's contributions to peace education. Ikeda is a Buddhist leader, peacebuilder, school founder, and prolific author whose six decades of contributions to peace education have had a global impact in practice but have remained unexamined in the extant, particularly Anglophone,…
Descriptors: Peace, Educational Philosophy, Buddhism, Teaching Methods
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Goulah, Jason – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2010
Environmental refugees are increasing worldwide. Consequently, a theoretical framework is necessary for conceptualizing them in education. This article breaks new ground by providing such a framework in education, in general, and bilingual-bicultural education, in particular. The framework is grounded in O'Sullivan's (1999, 2002) transformative…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Multicultural Education, Bilingual Education, Transformative Learning
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Goulah, Jason – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2009
This article examines the applicability of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi's (1871-1944) educational ideas in what Denzin and Lincoln (2005) call the "fractured future," a time marked by human, environmental, and climatic destabilization, and a time in which the social sciences "are normative disciplines always already embedded in issues of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Transformative Learning, Secondary Education
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Goulah, Jason – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2008
In this article, the author responds to the Modern Language Association's report, "Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World" (2007) by arguing for an explicit and interdisciplinary transformative world language learning approach toward environmental and cultural sustainability and economic and political…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Second Language Learning, Cultural Education, Sustainability
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Goulah, Jason – Foreign Language Annals, 2007
This instrumental case study examines how adolescent high-intermediate Japanese language learners enrolled in a one-month credited abroad program used video as a mediational tool for (1) learning foreign language, content, and technology skills, (2) cultivating critical multiliteracies and transformative learning regarding geopolitics and the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Theories, Traditional Schools
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Goulah, Jason – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2006
This article introduces a cosmological perspective of teaching second/foreign languages for promoting ecological interconnectedness and spirituality to counter material and monetary interests that cause environmental destruction and militarism. The arguments are couched in cross- and deep cultural learning and are based on the concept of…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Applied Linguistics, Second Languages, Transformative Learning