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Morley, Gabriel Patrick – ProQuest LLC, 2012
For the last 40 years, Stephen Gaskin has been an adult educator on the fringe, working with tens of thousands of adults in the counterculture movement in pursuit of social change regarding marijuana legalization, women's rights, environmental justice issues and beyond. Gaskin has written 11 books about his experiences teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Social Change, Social Justice, Adult Education
Mellinger, Laurie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation explores the recent work on spiritual practices in the academic discipline of Christian spirituality, gathering together the strengths of various conceptions of practice from the literature and developing a rigorous definition of a Christian spiritual practice: Christian spiritual practices are things God enables Christian people…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Religious Factors, Theological Education, Christianity
Daniels, Emily – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to explore urban teachers' praxis with historically marginalized youth. Specifically I examined of the role of hope and armed love, as well as critical pedagogy as conceptualized and implemented in urban classrooms. The basis for this is the continued educational inequities for urban youth, and an exploration of the…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Teaching Methods, Urban Teaching, Critical Theory