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Stillman, Jamy; Ahmed, Kathryn Struthers; Castañeda-Flores, Erika – Educational Forum, 2019
In this article, we share findings from a 3-year project in which novice teacher educators participated in Freirean culture circles and Boalian Theatre of the Oppressed (teatro) in order to critically explore the work of justice-oriented teacher education. Anchored in one of the project's most resonant scenarios, the article illustrates how teatro…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Educators, Teacher Education, Social Justice
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Caldas, Blanca – Educational Forum, 2019
This article examined the process of reaction, sense-making, and action through Forum Theatre of a group of 20 Latinx bilingual preservice teachers exploring issues of racism, linguicism, and discrimination. Forum Theatre provided a space where the messiness of emotions became a springboard for creativity, strategy-planning, and advocacy. Findings…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Hispanic American Students, Preservice Teachers, Racial Discrimination
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Brant, Cathy A. R. – Educational Forum, 2017
This article describes a study that investigated preservice teachers' understandings and self-efficacy related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) students and families. The preservice teachers indicated a broad range of understandings in relation to LGBTQ terms. They reported a relatively high sense of self-efficacy in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Level, Self Efficacy, Homosexuality
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Shallish, Lauren; Rao, Shridevi; Pancsofar, Nadya – Educational Forum, 2020
Recent societal and political shifts have underscored the need for higher education programs to examine and reflect on the ways in which they address equity and social justice. As teacher-educators, we feel this call with particular urgency. In this paper, we describe our past and current efforts to engage in self-reflective inquiry and enact ways…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Social Action, Learner Engagement, Equal Education
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Adamian, Annie S.; Jayakumar, Uma M. – Educational Forum, 2018
Guided by a critical race praxis for educational research lens, the authors worked individually alongside their students in a K-12 or higher education classroom, embracing spaces of tension derived from the push and pull between oppression and liberation. The authors explain how these tensions troubled the ways in which humanizing practices are…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Social Justice, Conflict, Institutional Characteristics
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Rout, Bharat Chandra – Educational Forum, 2012
Affirmative action (AA) is one of the most suitable mechanisms to promote equity and social justice in education in India. This essay deals with the impact of the different conceptualizations of AA in terms of its vision and the historic approaches to social inequalities in India. Primarily focusing on the various perspectives of affirmative…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Equal Education, Affirmative Action, Foreign Countries