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Kimitris, Petros N. – Online Submission, 2020
Although substantial progress has been made in the study of the Cyprus question in recent years, no comprehensive thoughts, analyses and conclusions have been drawn to the popular mobilization for the Cyprus issue in Greece, from the Summer of 1954 until the Spring of 1956. This research article aims to objectively bring light upon this very…
Descriptors: Activism, Political Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)
Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2020
This report explores the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Deep-End Initiative, which is helping juvenile justice jurisdictions safely and significantly reduce youth confinement -- especially for young people of color. In America today, youth of color are consistently over-represented in courtrooms and detention centers, youth prisons and other…
Descriptors: Juvenile Justice, Minority Groups, Youth, Demonstration Programs
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Kwok, Henry; Heimans, Stephen; Singh, Parlo – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2021
This paper starts with an apparently provocative question--can we call the 2019 Water Revolution in Hong Kong a lesson of emancipatory education which awakens students' critical consciousness and brings the postcolonial regime into democratic renewal? The mass social unrest, which was initially triggered by a controversial extradition legislation,…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Consciousness Raising, Postcolonialism, Legislation
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Göktürk, Duygun – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
This article focuses on the pedagogical project of the Hizmet Movement, with a special focus on its gender politics as they were activated and performed at one of the movement's schools in a peripheral rural city in western Turkey. Through an ethnographic, conversation-based account of female teachers as active and committed adherents of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Women Faculty, Social Action
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Barndt, Deborah; Erickson, Kris – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2017
This chapter offers an intergenerational reflection on the production of photostories in the Toronto-based Moment Project of the 1980s, considering how its features of co-creation, creative forms, and critical social content could be reinvented with the new digital media forms integral to today's social movements.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Photography, Social Action, Cooperative Learning
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McConnell, Kathleen F. – Communication Education, 2017
Lawrence R. Frey and David L. Palmer describe communication activism pedagogy (CAP) as "putting meat on critical pedagogy's theoretical bones" and applying theory to real-life activist movements (Frey & Palmer 2014). Their hope is to inspire students "beyond matriculation to develop their roles as activists," and Frey and…
Descriptors: Campuses, Critical Theory, Activism, Higher Education
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Johnson, Erica – History Teacher, 2019
In November of 2016, Laurent Dubois discussed the importance of Haiti in writing the history of slavery, freedom, and human rights in the Atlantic World during the Age of Revolutions for Aeon. He explained that histories of modern political thought and culture underestimated the Haitian Revolution due to the lack of written sources by the enslaved…
Descriptors: Slavery, Freedom, Blacks, Haitians
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Jorgenson, Simon N.; Stephens, Jennie C.; White, Beth – Journal of Environmental Education, 2019
The transition from centralized energy systems based on fossil fuels to renewable-based systems is a macro-level societal shift necessitated by climate change. This review of recent environmental education (EE) research identifies gaps and opportunities for promoting environmental action in this new context. We found that environmental educators…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Climate, Energy Education, Educational Research
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Sinatora, Francesco L. – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2019
This article discusses the intersection of language choice, identity and online political activism in the context of the 2011 Syrian uprising by bringing together the notions of "entextualization" and "chronotopes." The data is drawn from a longitudinal analysis of two Syrian dissidents' Facebook pages between 2010 and 2012 as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Self Concept, Political Attitudes
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Dache, Amalia – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2019
The material conditions of populations in the Global South are interconnected with the material conditions of Black working-class urban communities in the U.S. Through this multi-scalar construction, I put forward a theory of Calle -- a transnational ethic of ethno-racial-spatial solidarity. Set within stages of dual geographies, my AfroCuban…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Activism
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Akther, Farzana; Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Lone – Designs for Learning, 2019
The introduction and implementation of ICT depends not only on technological issues but also on social and institutional factors. To respond to these challenges, in this article we describe our engagement with an ICT4D research case conducted in collaboration with the Community Empowerment Programme (CEP) of the non-governmental organization (NGO)…
Descriptors: Photography, Social Action, Rural Areas, Community Development
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Walters, Shirley; von Kotze, Astrid – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2019
Discourses on adult learning and education (ALE) and in particular the GRALE Report generally have limited coverage of popular education as part of its ecology. Given both the long history of popular education globally as a necessary approach towards affecting transformation and the socio-economic-ecological transformations that are needed, we…
Descriptors: Popular Education, Adult Learning, Educational History, Social Change
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Ingle, W. Kyle; Johnson, Detra – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2019
The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the perceptions and experiences of educational leadership graduate students who participated in a short-term study abroad program in Peru. We analyzed assignments submitted for course credit, including a total of 144 photos and 107 corresponding reflections submitted as part of the photovoice…
Descriptors: Photography, Social Action, Urban Education, Instructional Leadership
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Squire, Dian; Nicolazzo, Z.; Perez, Rosemary J. – Review of Higher Education, 2019
This queer phenomenological study examined institutional statements released in support of undocumented individuals after the Trump administration's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. We discerned the "template" used when crafting public messages of support for undocumented communities. We suggest…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Immigration, Higher Education, Institutional Mission
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Moger, Pauline; Bagley, Carl – Ethnography and Education, 2019
To-date qualitative research in the field of policy enactment has tended to focus on investigating existing national policy discourse and the ways in which this discourse is creatively reconstituted in school-based contexts of practice. In this paper, the focus is on uncovering the ways in which a school-based commitment to a specific policy--in…
Descriptors: Creativity, Ethnography, Secondary Schools, Educational Policy
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