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David M. Grant – College Composition and Communication, 2017
Examining the "chanupa," or ceremonial pipe, from a Lakota perspective reveals it as responding to a particular ontology and extends indigenous rhetorics to consider the ontological dimensions of communication. Distinctions between indigenous rhetorics and new materialist rhetorics bring greater attention to how groups and individuals…
Descriptors: American Indians, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, American Indian Culture
Williams, Jannine; Mavin, Sharon – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
Within the academic career literature, disabled academics are under-researched, despite calls for career theory development through the exploration of marginalized groups' career experiences and the boundaries which shape these experiences. Here, boundaries refer to the symbolic resources which become reified to construct social boundaries…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Faculty, Disabilities, Empowerment
Alemán, Sonya M. – Review of Research in Education, 2018
This chapter reviews scholarship using intersectional analyses to assess how Latina/o and Chicana/o youth navigate imbricated systems of privilege and oppression in their educational trajectories. Scholars have explored the navigational tactics Latina/o and Chicana/o students use to negotiate their intersectional identities and the institutional…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Power Structure, Social Bias, Ethnicity
Burke, Meghan M. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2017
Latino students and their families are the fastest growing minority group in the country, yet it is unclear whether rural (vs. urban) Latino families of students with disabilities have different needs. In this pilot study, 65 Latino family members of students with disabilities (15 rural; 50 urban) responded to a questionnaire about empowerment,…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Hispanic American Students, Rural Areas, Urban Areas
Vaughn, Margaret – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Research on teaching visioning supports the claim that visioning functions as a tool to support beginning and in-service teachers in their efforts to develop equitable, student-centered learning contexts. While research on teacher visioning has provided insight into the nature of visioning, more research is needed to document the ways in which…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Elementary School Teachers, Reservation American Indians, Visualization
Johnson, Kayla M. – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2018
This paper uses photo-cued interviewing and grounded theory approaches to understand student empowerment resulting from study abroad programs. Using data from 62 students who traveled to 9 countries on several different programs, this paper highlights what student empowerment as an outcome of study abroad can look like and how student empowerment…
Descriptors: Photography, Cues, Study Abroad, Student Attitudes
Rojas, Leticia – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2018
This one-year qualitative study examined the ways in which five Chicana/o and Latina/o teachers committed to social justice perceived their roles in their college-going work with Latina/o students, as well as the challenges threatening their efforts with students. Building on Stanton-Salazar's (2011) concept of "empowerment social…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Educational Opportunities, College Bound Students, Qualitative Research
Hook, Margaret Mary Remstad – ProQuest LLC, 2018
As human rights education initiatives expand globally, there is wide variation among contexts about what human rights education is and accomplishes beyond a basic transmission of knowledge of rights. In an Andean highland province in Peru, two nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)---Fe y Alegria and IPEDEHP---have collaborated over the course of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civil Rights, Educational Quality, Educational Opportunities
Beasley, Sherry H. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Despite costly and innovative initiatives, Georgia's schools have failed to show significant gains in student achievement. According to the Turnaround Eligible Schools produced by the Governor's Office of Student Achievement (2017), elementary schools comprise the majority of the historically failing schools in Georgia. The purpose of this study…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Low Achievement, Elementary School Teachers, Empowerment
Palau-Wolffe, Françoise – Voices in Education, 2016
This article addresses the vital role human rights education can play in formal education not only as a means to reach the standards and objectives of 21st century curricula but also to empower youth. Firstly, I highlight the characteristics of human rights educational programmes and examine how the potential of this approach is embedded in…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Empowerment, Holistic Approach, Foreign Countries
Moran, Thomas Eugene; Taliaferro, Andrea R.; Pate, Joshua R. – Quest, 2014
Community-based physical activity programs for people with disabilities have barriers that are unique to their program leader qualifications and the population they serve. Moran and Block (2010) argued that there is a need for practical strategies that are easy for communities to implement, maximize resources, and minimize the impact of barriers…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Physical Activities, Barriers, Disabilities
Pawlachuk, Jodi – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2014
Students today encounter numerous life challenges. The ability to overcome these obstacles depends on the educational system's ability to prepare youth to make healthy decisions. Values-based schooling requires substantial standards of value to be placed on students in order to meet the growing needs of society. An emphasis on love, relationships,…
Descriptors: Barriers, Role of Education, Values Education, Social Development
Maranto, Robert – Journal of School Leadership, 2015
This article is based on a case study to explore a model of teacher governance and illustrate the distinct challenges of entrepreneurship in public education. In the Sedona Charter School, each classroom principal educator serves as instructional leader and resource leader. Principal educators adjust curricula, hire their teachers, determine…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Public Education, Charter Schools, Principals
Vieira, Flávia – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2017
Proposals for innovating language education at school are always affected by cultures of teaching and teacher education. This article takes an inquisitive look at task-based language teaching (TBLT) as a learner-centred approach, arguing in favour of a realistic understanding of possibilities for educational change. This entails confronting…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Assignments, Student Centered Learning, Educational Change
Tompkins, Joanne; Kearns, Laura-Lee; Mitton-Kükner, Jennifer – McGill Journal of Education, 2017
Critical challenges facing teacher educators at faculties of education is how to prepare teacher candidates to see schools situated in larger social contexts and support their ongoing learning as social justice advocates. Anti-oppressive work that challenges the marginalization of Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, Two-Spirited, Queering and/or…
Descriptors: Barriers, Teacher Educators, Social Justice, Advocacy