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Kerry Carlin-Morgan – Journal of Museum Education, 2024
To truly fulfill their missions and make positive strides toward the conservation of our ocean, aquariums need to reach diverse audiences and reflect their local communities. Reaching audiences not adequately represented at our facilities takes work and time. It requires building relationships and trust. We need to understand which audiences are…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Social Change, Museums, Trust (Psychology)
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McCarty, Kathleen; Case, Layne; Kennedy, Winston – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2022
The purpose of this article is to present a case study example of a graduate student-designed, introductory series of discussions integrated within graduate Kinesiology student training, with the broad goal of building an academic environment that acknowledges bias and supports anti-oppressive conversation. Previous research on social justice…
Descriptors: Kinesiology, Graduate Study, Social Justice, Physical Education
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Reynolds, Nora Pillard; MacCarty, Nordica A.; Sharp, Kendra V.; Hartman, Eric – Advances in Engineering Education, 2022
As global engineering education projects and programs are initiated, too often social outcomes and long-term impacts are assumed to be positive. This is particularly true for sustainable development projects, which often have an inherent assumption of positive transformation through engineering solutions. We argue that a focus on technical…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Engineering Education, Sustainable Development, Partnerships in Education
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Johnson, Jerry; Ohlson, Matthew A.; Shope, Shane – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2018
In this descriptive and comparative study, we present results highlighting the complexity and scope of the challenges facing rural districts as they navigate the changing demographics of the students and families they serve. Rapid increases in the number and concentration of racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse students in rural areas…
Descriptors: Demography, Social Change, Population Trends, Rural Areas
Ramaley, Judith A. – Metropolitan Universities, 2016
Campuses are developing new ways to respond to complex social, cultural, economic and environmental problems by adapting their educational approaches and their scholarship to address a changing world order. At the same time, government agencies, nonprofit organizations and businesses are embracing collaborative approaches to community…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, School Community Relationship, Social Change, Social Action
Reitenauer, Vicki L.; Korzun, Tetiana; Lane, Kimberly; Roberts, Melinda Joy – Metropolitan Universities, 2015
Designed in response to students' requests for a capstone where they could form their own individual partnerships in the communities of their choosing, Effective Change Agent offers a structure for community-based learning that allows for high levels of student choice-making and agency. In this article, the authors describe the course; connect it…
Descriptors: Change Agents, College Students, Service Learning, College Curriculum
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Stephen, Lynn – Journal of Rural Studies, 2008
Political participation in the rural United States has often been narrowly defined within the confines of electoral politics. Increasingly, participants in rural US social movements have highlighted the shortcomings of democracy defined purely in terms of electoral politics in favour of a more participatory model of politics that focuses on the…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Democracy, Politics, Political Issues
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Gregory, Richard A. – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2009
Peter Senge's message during the 2005 American Association of School Administrators (AASA) conference reminded people that they live not only in a school system, but also within a highly diverse, global community. Their individual and organizational policies, practices, and behaviors, can and do impact the learning experience for those they…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Learning Experience, Ethics, Academic Achievement
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Braa, Dean; Callero, Peter – Teaching Sociology, 2006
In this paper we argue for the incorporation of critical pedagogy in the teaching of sociology. We first establish the theoretical and emancipatory rationale for critical pedagogy with a review of the neomarxist concept of reproduction. We then examine a specific application of critical pedagogy in the sociology curriculum of Western Oregon…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Critical Theory, Social Change, Sociology
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Singer, Jessica; Shagoury, Ruth – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2004
Teaching a diverse population of adolescents to be writers, readers, and active citizens requires fundamental changes in curriculum development, teaching strategies, and student roles in the classroom. In this article, two educators report on their collaboration in an urban high school in Portland, Oregon, USA, to create a classroom where students…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Social Change, Curriculum Development, Biographies
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Clark, Shirley M. – Review of Higher Education, 1993
Higher education has related asynchronously to recent cycles in social movements affecting school reform. Current efforts in Oregon illustrate this pattern in public colleges. Although higher education is not likely to overcome its skepticism of reform dynamics, there is both reason and potential for promising alliances with schools. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Case Studies, Change Strategies, College School Cooperation
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Cover, Marilyn R. – Update on Law-Related Education, 1995
Asserts that tolerance is a fundamental part of democracy. Presents a lesson plan to help students understand tolerance as it applies to homosexuality. Includes student objectives, step-by-step instructional procedures, and a student handout featuring Oregon's proposed minority status and Child Protection Act. (CFR)
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Equal Protection, Homosexuality, Law Related Education