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Equity Scenario Response Survey: Understanding Teacher Candidates' Preparation of Their Sociopolitical Identity
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Nicholas S. Bell; Diane Codding – Urban Education, 2024
Teacher educators have a limited amount of time to prepare candidates for becoming political change agents. Therefore, we have to understand the efficacy of preparation efforts. As a result, we developed the "Equity Scenario Response Survey" to understand our candidates' preparation of their sociopolitical identity, defined by equity…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Educators, Elementary Education
Teacher Unions Involvement in Education Policy: Lessons from the Iranian Teachers Movement
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Ahmad Medadi; Amir Hossein Mahdavi – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
This paper examines the influence of Iranian teacher unions on educational policy reforms, focusing on the evolution of teacher unions over the past two decades. Our key finding reveals a shift in the discourse and mental model of Iranian teacher unions, with an increased emphasis on education policy changes for quality and equity education.…
Descriptors: Unions, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Educational History
Educating Informal Educators on Issues of Race and Inequality: Raising Critical Consciousness, Identifying Challenges, and Implementing Change in a Youth and Community Work Programme
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Achilleos, Jess; Douglas, Hayley; Washbrook, Yasmin – Education Sciences, 2021
The debate regarding institutional racism and White privilege within higher education (HE) remains prevalent, and higher education institutions (HEIs) are not exempt from the racial equality debate. Youth and Community Work is underpinned by anti-oppressive practice, highlighting a need to educate informal educators on the structural underpinnings…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Ethnicity, Social Justice, College Students
Do Early Childhood Teachers Truly Understand and Implement Effective Multicultural Education in Their Teaching?
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Gonzalez, Lauren Kelley; Austin, Stephen F. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The United States of America is known to be one of the most culturally, racially, and ethnically diverse countries in the world. With this comes the increasing diversity among school populations, making multicultural education necessary at all levels of education while integrating a culturally inclusive world-view into all areas of the curriculum.…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Cultural Pluralism, Student Diversity, Multicultural Education
Reclaiming Adolescence: A Roma Youth Perspective
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Bhabha, Jacqueline; Fuller, Arlan; Matache, Margareta; Vranješevic, Jelena; Chernoff, Miriam C.; Spasic, Boris; Ivanis, Jelena – Harvard Educational Review, 2017
In this article, the authors present data gathered in the Reclaiming Adolescence research project, which investigated the educational hardships of Roma youth by comparing their experiences with their non-Roma peers' in Belgrade, Serbia. Serious inequalities in access to secondary and tertiary education affect the life and career opportunities of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Minority Groups, Leadership, Social Bias
Voices of Change: Women's Experiences at Lake Forest College, 1955-1975.
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Woodruff, Jennifer E. – 2000
This study examines the experiences of women at Lake Forest College, Illinois, from 1955-75 through questionnaires sent to women alumni and present and past faculty and staff requesting information on demographics, academic/extracurricular activities, campus life, social and political change, career expectations, and attitudes. Chapter 1 sketches…
Descriptors: Athletics, Civil Rights, College Faculty, College Students