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Hamza R'boul; Benachour Saidi – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
Critical discourses in intercultural communication (IC) scholarship continue to foreground the postcolonial malaise of Southern spaces. Intercultural communication education (ICE) may encounter some pedagogical challenges in its endeavour to reflect the complexity and depth of the discipline and its recent critical turn. This paper seeks to…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Postcolonialism, Teaching Methods, Barriers
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Gabriel, Deborah – Gender and Education, 2021
The articles in this themed issue explore global educational experiences that embrace various cultures, traditions, religions and identities. Collectively this work offers valuable insights into unexplored areas of research, illuminating issues that intersect across race, ethnicity and gender. The significance of these studies lies in the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Race, Ethnicity, Power Structure
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Rahman, Samiha – Curriculum Inquiry, 2021
Black Muslim youth confront antiblackness and Islamophobia in US schools and society, yet few studies examine how this population navigates these intersecting oppressions. In addition, there has been a dearth of scholarly literature that explores the educational spaces in which Black Muslim youth are nurtured and affirmed. This article addresses…
Descriptors: African Americans, Muslims, Religious Schools, Islamic Culture
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Walton-Fisette, Jennifer L.; Philpot, Rod; Phillips, Sharon; Flory, Sara B.; Hill, Joanne; Sutherland, Sue; Flemons, Michelle – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2018
Background: For many years, scholars in Physical Education Teacher Educator (PETE) have argued for the importance of educating pre-service teachers (PSTs) about equality (e.g. Evans, J. 1990. "Defining a Subject: The Rise and Rise of the New Physical Education?" "British Journal of Sociology of Education" 11: 155-169),…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Sociocultural Patterns, Social Justice, Physical Education
Koenig, Darlene; Strom, Adam – Teaching Tolerance, 2012
Why did religious pluralism flourish in the United States? Because George Washington and other Founders worked hard to nurture it. In the early days of the United States, religious minorities had several concerns: Would they be allowed to practice their religion? Would they be allowed to build houses of worship? Would they have the same political…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Democracy, Social Discrimination, Religion
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Ross, Rosetta E. – Religious Education, 2012
Historian of religions Charles Long uses the term "American cultural language" to identify discursive challenges to democracy and social justice in the Unites States. The American cultural language, Long says, is the "misinterpretation" of humanness and freedom conveyed when the term "American"--used to signify…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Freedom, Females, Democracy
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Bhopal, Kalwant – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2012
Recent research has shown that racism towards Muslims has significantly increased both in the USA and in the United Kingdom. Following the 9/11 attacks in the USA, discrimination and racialised violence has shown a significant increase against those from Muslim groups. This article reviews four texts that examine aspects of Muslim identity in…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Muslims, Religion, Foreign Countries
Dolgon, Corey, Ed.; Mitchell, Tania D., Ed.; Eatman, Timothy K., Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2017
With contributions from leading experts across disciplinary fields, this book explores best practices from the field's most notable researchers, as well as important historically based and politically focused challenges to a field whose impact has reached an important crossroads. The comprehensive and powerfully critical analysis considers the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Best Practices, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Dowson, Martin, Ed.; Devenish, Stuart, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
Religion and spirituality make critical contributions to an inclusive vision for the welfare of minorities, the marginalized and other disadvantaged groups in societies and cultures around the globe. Religious movements and spiritual traditions work to improve social outcomes for disenfranchised groups by enriching educational, political, and…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, Social Justice, Education
Carr, Paul R., Ed.; Zyngier, David, Ed.; Pruyn, Marc, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2012
As the title of this book suggests, how one understands, perceives and experiences democracy may have a significant effect on how he/she actually engages in, and with, democracy. Within the educational context, this is a key concern, and forms the basis of the research presented in this volume within a critical, comparative analysis. The Global…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Change
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Jansen, Jonathan D. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2006
The parallels between South Africa and the United States run deep. For the United States, that moment of transition, at least as far as education is concerned, was the landmark ruling of 1954, described in the shorthand, "Brown v. Board of Education"; for South Africa, that moment came 40 years later when every citizen could, for the…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Racial Segregation, Democracy, Foreign Countries
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Sehoole, Chika Trevor – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2006
In his critique of academic writing about and public consumption of government policy and law, Jonathan Jansen uses his argument of the symbolic functions of education law and education policy as a basis for explaining the lack of progress in achieving equity and justice under "Brown v. Board of Education" (1954) in the United States and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Racial Segregation, Democracy, Foreign Countries