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Ijaz, Nadine; Sergeant, Anjali – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2022
This study evaluates an innovative three-sided approach to classroom debate aimed at fostering critical thinking beyond adversarial argumentation. In an undergraduate Food Justice course, two teams presented arguments "for" and "against" pre-defined resolutions, while a third team explored areas of convergence and divergence at…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Critical Thinking, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes
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Trefzger Clarke, Lisa – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2022
This case study explores the experiences of nine female-identifying feminist public educators working with Ontario, Canada, sexual assault centres who regularly facilitate discussions about sexual consent and gender-based sexual violence in schools, post-secondary institutions, and community workshops. The educators discuss their experiences of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feminism, Females, Public Education
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Kathryn Accurso; Margaret Early; Jonathan Ferreira; Giovanna Lucci – TESL Canada Journal, 2024
K-7 classrooms are diverse spaces where students and teachers navigate cultures, languages, and (racialized) identities as they engage in disciplinary teaching and learning. They are also spaces harmfully impacted by raciolinguistic ideologies and a persistent separation of language and content instruction. Consequently, critical teacher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Educators
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Lefrançois, David; Ethier, Marc-André; Cambron-Prémont, Amélie – Journal of Social Science Education, 2017
Purpose: The Québec Ministry of Education has introduced--as of September 2017--a new mandatory course focusing on financial literacy and addressing such issues as credit scores, loans, taxes and budgets. This announcement has created intense educational debate on the "raison d'être" and content of the course. This article will summarise…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Critical Thinking, Citizenship Education, Social Sciences
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Badenhorst, Cecile M.; Moloney, Cecilia; Rosales, Janna – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
Engineering education has long resulted in professional engineers with the required technical skills to meet the profession's needs. Yet in today's rapidly changing, globalised world, engineers will need more than technical competencies to meet the requirements of their professional work. Incorporating different literacies in engineering education…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Multiple Literacies, Critical Thinking, Reflection
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Helkenberg, Davin; Schoenberger, Nicole; Kooy, S. A. Vander; Pemberton, Amanda; Ali, Karim; Bartlett, Sarah; Clair, Jillian; Crombleholme, Sydney; Dee, Alison; DePierro, Kristy; Greenwood, Timothy; Lobzun, Meagan; Petersen, Cassandra; Saunders, Sabrina Redwing; Tarzi, Mary; Ward, Kristyn; Zip, Stacey – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2018
This paper was produced as a collaborative project by a Progressive Librarianship class at an ALA-accredited Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program located in Canada. Recent research in LIS has identified a need for issues of social justice to be discussed more prominently in LIS education. From a uniquely student perspective,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Information Science Education, Library Science
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Asgharzadeh, Alireza; Nazim, Zabedia – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2018
Contemporary liberal education owes its existence to various educational ideas and pedagogical formulas that emerged from the 18th century intellectual movement known as the Enlightenment. Many Enlightenment conceptions, principles, and practices such as public schooling, equality of opportunity, freedom of expression, critical thinking,…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Global Approach, Neoliberalism, Educational Policy
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Akesson, Bree; Oba, Olufunke – Journal of Social Work Education, 2017
Equipping future social workers to interrogate social justice, human rights, and cultural issues requires a revision of social work education. Culturally relevant teaching is increasingly important in today's globalized world. In this article, we explore the role of comics as a form of social work pedagogy to tackle complex social issues. The…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Counselor Training, Focus Groups, Social Work
Sensoy, Ozlem; DiAngelo, Robin – Teachers College Press, 2017
This is the new edition of the award-winning guide to social justice education. Based on the authors' extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the book addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. This comprehensive resource includes new features such as a chapter on…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Social Change, Foreign Countries, Critical Theory
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Arshad-Ayaz, Adeela; Andreotti, Vanessa; Sutherland, Ali – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2017
In the recent "National Youth White Paper on Global Citizenship" (2015), a selection of Canadian youth identified their vision for global citizenship education (GCE). The document articulates the Canadian youths' vision for global citizenship and outlines changes that need to be implemented in order for that vision to be achieved.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Position Papers, Global Approach, Citizenship Education
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Dylan, Arielle – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2012
This article examines the elusive concept of safety in liberal arts classrooms which are often contoured by a plurality of social, cultural, political, psychological, historical, and discursive forces and performances. Using select principles from adult education and social work with groups as an organizing metaphor, the article discusses the…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Safety, Social Work, School Safety
Levinson, Meira, Ed.; Fay, Jacob, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2019
Teaching in a democracy is challenging and filled with dilemmas that have no easy answers. For example, how do educators meet their responsibilities of teaching civic norms and dispositions while remaining nonpartisan? "Democratic Discord in Schools" features eight normative cases of complex dilemmas drawn from real events designed to…
Descriptors: Democracy, Citizenship Education, Problem Solving, Cooperation
Sensoy, Ozlem; DiAngelo, Robin – Teachers College Press, 2011
This practical handbook will introduce readers to social justice education, providing tools for developing "critical social justice literacy" and for taking action towards a more just society. Accessible to students from high school through graduate school, this book offers a collection of detailed and engaging explanations of key…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Social Change, Foreign Countries, Critical Theory
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Broom, Catherine – Canadian Social Studies, 2012
This paper begins with a discussion of Canadian and international work that has identified a number of shortcomings with standardized assessments, which are framed within neoliberal ideology. It then explores the principles of good assessment and applies them to an analysis of British Columbia's standardized Social Studies 11 exam. It finds that…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Social Studies, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education
Diamond, James; Brunner, Cornelia – Education Development Center, Inc., 2011
Breakthrough, a global human rights organization, produced "America 2049," an alternate-reality game set in a dystopian future in which the United States is on the verge of breaking apart because of an inability to tolerate diversity and promote human rights. During the 12-week game launch, players uncovered artifacts related to the…
Descriptors: Educational Games, United States History, Civil Rights, Social Justice
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