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Direct linkSilin, Jonathan – Teaching Education, 2020
The 50th anniversaries of the Stonewall riots and my entry into the field of early childhood education prompt me to reflect both on the initial years of my activist and professional life and on these, the final ones. Feeling historical, increasingly connected to both the past and the future, I am discomforted by traditional notions of legacy,…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, LGBTQ People, Early Childhood Teachers, Social History
Download full textKarn, Lawrence; Hattori, Takahiko – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2018
Stories live to be told to others, Dan McAdams (2008) writes: "Life stories therefore are continually made and remade in social relationships and in the overall social context provided by culture. As psychosocial constructions, life stories reflect the values, norms, and power differentials inherent in societies, wherein they have their…
Descriptors: Biographies, Social Environment, Personal Narratives, Individual Development
Giner, Elisenda; Ruiz, Laura; Serrano, Mª Ángeles; Valls, Rosa – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background/Context: Women's sexuality, and the ways they experience it, has been a major topic in feminist theories and movements throughout history. For the more than 20,000 working-class women who participated in the Free Women movement in Spain (the libertarian women's movement, which started in 1936), women's sexuality was also a key topic in…
Descriptors: Females, Sexuality, Sex Education, Educational History
Menkhaus, James – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Fr. Pedro Arrupe, S.J. was elected the 28th superior general of the Society of Jesus in 1965 and served in that role until 1983. As superior general, Arrupe sought to shape the Jesuits in the spirit of the vision of Vatican II, as well as the original charism of the founder of the Jesuit, St. Ignatius. The questions this dissertation seeks to…
Descriptors: Catholics, Religious Education, Social Justice, Social History
Beck, Bernard – Multicultural Perspectives, 2014
The movie "Lee Daniels' The Butler" is an example of a work that is meant not only to entertain but to convey an important attitude and offer important viewpoints. The movie deals with a deep issue in the history of movies and the history of the country: racial inequality. Three issues are discussed in this article: (a) African…
Descriptors: Biographies, Didacticism, Racial Discrimination, African Americans
May, Laura A.; Holbrook, Teri; Meyers, Laura E. – Children's Literature in Education, 2010
American publishers have published numerous children's books about Barack Obama over the past several years; most take the form of informational biographies. This article reports on a research project aimed at how these books incorporate sociohistorical narratives, particularly those related to the civil rights movement. Though the features of the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Civil Rights, Ideology, Biographies
