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D. Chase J. Catalano; Rachel Wagner – Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 2024
This paper explores the experiences of nonbinary and trans (NBT) facilitators of Safe Zone workshops, what we call LGBTQ+ social justice educational interventions (SJEIs). Despite their prevalence in higher education for over 3 decades, there remains a paucity of research about them and those who facilitate them. This research focused on 33 NBT…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, LGBTQ People, Sexual Identity
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Walpole, MaryBeth; Crockett, Felicia; Lezotte, Stephanie – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to examine North American master's programs in higher education administration, leadership and student affairs; the extent to which these programs incorporate diversity coursework; and their reasons for doing so. Graduate programs must prepare practitioners who are able to work effectively with multiple groups of students,…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Critical Race Theory, Diversity, Foreign Countries
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Cuéllar, Carolina; Queupil, Juan Pablo; Cuenca, Catalina; Ravest, Javiera – Multicultural Education Review, 2020
The intersection of multiculturalism and educational leadership, under a Social Justice (SJ) framework to understand diversity and equity issues, has received major attention in the academic world internationally. However, few is known about commonalities and differences between societies within this intersection. To address this gap, we reviewed…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Leadership Responsibility, Racial Bias, Social Bias
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Stephanie Begun; Brigette Mayorga; Cam Bautista; Krysta Cooke; Travonne Edwards; Bryn King; Hamzat Olaosebikan; Rae-Ann Whyte – Journal of Youth Development, 2022
This study qualitatively explored the potential of improv for strengthening youth-adult partnerships. Seven members of a youth-adult research collaborative participated in a 2-hour professionally facilitated improv workshop. Participants provided insights about their experiences through a follow-up qualitative interview questionnaire. Participants…
Descriptors: Helping Relationship, Interpersonal Relationship, Adults, Youth
Chzhen, Yekaterina; Rees, Gwyther; Gromada, Anna; Cuesta, Jose; Bruckauf, Zlata – UNICEF, 2018
In the world's richest countries, some children do worse at school than others because of circumstances beyond their control, such as where they were born, the language they speak or their parents' occupations. These children enter the education system at a disadvantage and can drop further behind if educational policies and practices reinforce,…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Social Bias, Socioeconomic Influences, Foreign Countries
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Lynch, Ingrid; Swartz, Sharlene; Isaacs, Dane – Journal of Moral Education, 2017
Racism is a moral issue and of concern for moral educators, with recent social movements such as #BlackLivesMatter highlighting how far we are from obliterating racial oppression and the unearned privilege whiteness confers. To contribute to a more formalised approach to anti-racist moral education, this article systematically reviews 15 years of…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Multicultural Education, Moral Development, Literature Reviews
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Al-Issa, Ali S. M. – Cogent Education, 2017
There is a growing body of literature about the qualities of professional teacher educators (TEs) and their impact on preparing professional teachers. However, English Language Teaching (ELT) research has fallen behind in this regard, despite the fact that different programs worldwide suffer from different limitations, due to certain aspects…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teacher Educators
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Bozkurt, Aras; Jung, Insung; Xiao, Junhong; Vladimirschi, Viviane; Schuwer, Robert; Egorov, Gennady; Lambert, Sarah R.; Al-Freih, Maha; Pete, Judith; Olcott, Don, Jr.; Rodes, Virginia; Aranciaga, Ignacio; Bali, Maha; Alvarez, Abel V., Jr.; Roberts, Jennifer; Pazurek, Angelica; Raffaghelli, Juliana Elisa; Panagiotou, Nikos; de Coëtlogon, Perrine; Shahadu, Sadik; Brown, Mark; Asino, Tutaleni I.; Tumwesige, Josephine; Reyes, Tzinti Ramírez; Ipenza, Emma Barrios; Ossiannilsson, Ebba; Bond, Melissa; Belhamel, Kamel; Irvine, Valerie; Sharma, Ramesh C.; Adam, Taskeen; Janssen, Ben; Sklyarova, Tatiana; Olcott, Nicoleta; Ambrosino, Alejandra; Lazou, Chrysoula; Mocquet, Bertrand; Mano, Mattias; Paskevicius, Michael – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2020
Uncertain times require prompt reflexes to survive and this study is a collaborative reflex to better understand uncertainty and navigate through it. The Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic hit hard and interrupted many dimensions of our lives, particularly education. As a response to interruption of education due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this study…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Elementary Secondary Education
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Yob, Iris M. – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2016
The writers of the UNESCO document, "Rethinking education: Towards a global common good?" challenge educators to address their efforts to meet the current threats to sustainable life for all who share this planet. One way that higher education has been attempting to do this is through campus-community partnerships working to solve social…
Descriptors: Social Responsibility, Higher Education, Social Problems, School Community Relationship
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Elliott, Catherine; Leck, Joanne; Rockwell, Brittany; Luthy, Michael – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2013
Often, knowledge and quality education is reserved for the elite, where there are systemic obstacles to gaining access to today's leaders. Gender and racial inequities in executive-level positions across North America have been a longstanding debate amongst scholars and policy makers. Research has consistently documented that women are…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Educational Counseling, Social Capital, Career Counseling
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Turner, Sherri L.; Pope, Mark – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2009
This article understands North America's indigenous peoples in the context of social justice. The authors discuss the role of legislation in shaping cultural contexts of indigenous people and influencing mental health issues in Native American communities. Trauma counseling with Native Americans is explored.
Descriptors: Social Justice, American Indians, Cultural Context, Indigenous Populations
Adamson, Peter – UNICEF, 2010
Whether in health, in education, or in material well-being, some children will always fall behind the average. The critical question is -- how far behind? Is there a point beyond which falling behind is not inevitable but policy susceptible, not unavoidable but unacceptable, not inequality but inequity? There are no widely agreed theoretical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Well Being, Developed Nations, Equal Education
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Raza, Ahmad; Kausar, A. Rashid; Paul, David – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2007
Purpose: This paper aims to make a theoretical critique of the revolutionary sociocultural transformations created by e-learning in the manner knowledge is created, codified, retrieved, managed and transmitted across the boundaries of different cultures. Design/methodology/approach: The structure of these transformations remains European and North…
Descriptors: Democracy, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology
Adamson, Peter – UNICEF, 2005
This review of child poverty in rich countries finds that the proportion of children living in poverty in the developed world has risen in 17 out of the 24 OECD nations for which data are available. No matter which of the commonly-used poverty measures is applied, the situation of children is seen to have deteriorated over the last decade. UNICEF…
Descriptors: Poverty, Children, Developed Nations, Social Justice