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Direct linkChang, Ethan; Glass, Ronald David – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2022
Purpose: This paper conceptualizes a just leadership learning ecology through an analysis of one nontraditional site of leadership preparation: the Highlander Research and Education Center (originally founded as the Highlander Folk School). Methodology: Drawing on cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) and institutional theory (IT), we examine…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Residential Programs, Social Justice, Democratic Values
Hoff, Lutz; Hickling-Hudson, Anne – International Journal of Educational Development, 2011
This paper explores the role of International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) in adult education as one instrument of global civil society to effect social change. Postcolonial theory is utilized to explore the complex relationships between the concepts of "globalisation", "global civil, society", and "adult education for social change". In…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Adult Education, Social Change, Nongovernmental Organizations
Fischer, Shlomo; Hotam, Yotam; Wexler, Philip – Review of Research in Education, 2012
In this article, the authors attempt to show what it means to think about democracy and education "within" society, culture, and religion. They use the term religion to discuss both "religion" as a social phenomena and "religiosity" as a spiritual, aesthetic individual commitment to the transcendent, eternal, and…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Context Effect, Social Environment, Cultural Context
Haeffel, Gerald J.; Thiessen, Erik D.; Campbell, Matthew W.; Kaschak, Michael P.; McNeil, Nicole M. – American Psychologist, 2009
Comments on an article by J. J. Arnett regarding the assertion that American psychology focuses too narrowly on Americans while neglecting the other 95% of the world's population. The authors agree with Arnett's call for greater attention to this issue. However, they fundamentally disagree with his position on issues related to generalizability…
Descriptors: Criticism, Cultural Context, Social Theories, Cultural Differences
