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Asakura, Kenta; Strumm, Brianna; Todd, Sarah; Varghese, Rani – Journal of Social Work Education, 2020
The profession of social work emphasizes social justice in its service delivery, yet there is a paucity of literature on how to teach clinical practice from a social justice perspective. This qualitative study with Canadian social work educators (n=12) suggests the following ways in which educators taught clinical social work from a social justice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, Social Justice, Teaching Methods
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Yoon, Ee-Seul; Grima, Victoria; DeWiele, Corinne E. Barrett; Skelton, Lucas – Comparative Education, 2022
This study assesses the extent to which public high schools become more or less socially mixed after families are allowed to choose schools outside their designated catchment areas in a mid-sized Canadian city. We draw on settler-colonial theory, critical human geography, and critical social theory while applying a critical mapping of school…
Descriptors: School Choice, School Segregation, School Resegregation, Public Schools
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Grace, André P. – Irish Educational Studies, 2017
This article investigates the political, cultural, and educational work of two pioneering Canadian gay teachers during the 1990s: James Chamberlain and Murray Corren. These advocate-practitioners took up roles as social activists, cultural workers, and engaged teachers whose transgressive acts focused on the social and cultural transformation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homosexuality, Social Bias, Interviews
Shields, Carolyn M., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2011
This important, timely, and thought-provoking reader is a collection of original chapters by authors from five different countries, each of whom explores a facet of transformative leadership. Transformative leadership is fundamentally a critical approach to leadership that goes well beyond the tenets of most current leadership theories to focus on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Critical Theory, Democracy
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Jubas, Kaela; Butterwick, Shauna – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2008
Purpose: This paper discusses insights from a study of women working, or seeking or preparing for work, in the information technology (IT) field. At issue is how and whether alternative career pathways and informally acquired skills and knowledge, as well as the operation of gender in learning and work, are acknowledged by employers, colleagues…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Females, Information Technology, Education Work Relationship