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Daisy Binfang Wu – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
This article presents an ethnographic case study of pre-service teachers' transformative learning in a Culture-Writing course at a Chinese university. In recounting three stories with fieldwork data gleaned from moments of students' pre-class discussions, reflective writings, and reports on term-paper projects, this study showcases how a group of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Transformative Learning, Writing (Composition)
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Brewster, Kendra R.; Fricchione, Melanie A.; Murphy, Sara A.; Jean, Phoebee; Sloan, Christina M. – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2020
The qualitative analysis of the experiences of a small study of 23 service learners indicated that individuals negotiate social distance as they: (1) ascribe agency in action and affect to themselves and others; (2) consider whether they belong on-site and connect with others; and (3) grapple with the structural inequalities that shape social…
Descriptors: Social Distance, Service Learning, Learning Experience, Critical Theory
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Bradley, John – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2012
In this article I discuss the way Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and reflexivity is employed in a university environment to address the question of how we can most successfully transfer knowledge about the presumed Other into our own cultural space without reducing, fragmenting, and exoticising complex knowledge systems. My goal is to stimulate in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Ethnic Studies, Reflection
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Agosto, Vonzell; Karanxha, Zorka – Journal of School Leadership, 2012
We conducted a content analysis of 34 statements of interest submitted by applicants applying for admission to an education leadership preparation program. The purpose of the analysis was to understand their orientations toward social justice. Using Kumashiro's (2000) and Apple's (2001) discussions of antioppressive education, we identified three…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Administrator Education, Figurative Language, Content Analysis
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Prieto-Arranz, Jose Igor; Juan-Garau, Maria; Jacob, Karen Lesley – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2013
The rise of English as an international language (EIL) has brought to light the needs of those who speak it as an additional language. This has in turn radically reshaped the role of culture in the EIL classroom, which may now aim at developing critical transcultural awareness. By reporting on a joint initiative undertaken by three schools in two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reflection, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing
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Reed, Gay Garland – Journal of Moral Education, 2011
This paper explores some complexities of moral learning by referencing personal and professional experiences that shape my moral ecology. Moral learning, like all forms of learning, is not merely accumulative but rather a recursive, adaptive and elaborative process. The multidimensional nature of this phenomenon can be captured by drawing on the…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Moral Development, Differences, Perspective Taking