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Aurélie Van de Peer; Orhan Agirdag; Freddy Mortier – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
Educational research acknowledges the significant challenges faced by racialized minority students at school. This interview-based study examines the experiences of racialized minority students in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region in Belgium, regarding a social science curriculum that addresses the power dynamics and privilege involved in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Minority Group Students, Racial Factors, Social Sciences
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Breaden, Jeremy; Do, Thu; Moreira dos Anjos-Santos, Lucas; Normand-Marconnet, Nadine – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
The popularisation of virtual mobility offers opportunities to reconsider power imbalances among different actors in higher education and to affirm the centrality of student agency and diversity. This article explores possibilities for applying the Students as Partners (SaP) approach to virtual mobility in order to empower students and foster…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Global Approach, Distance Education, Student Mobility
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Domínguez, Ashley D.; Clement, Valencia; Bertrand, Melanie – Educational Policy, 2022
Research has shown the value of including youth, especially minoritized students, in school- and district-level educational decision-making. However, power dynamics, as related to adultism, along with other inequities, are barriers to youth's political influence. We elucidate these barriers by exploring the possible relationship between…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Politics of Education, Student Empowerment, Teacher Attitudes
Jill M. Adamson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Teacher leadership reflects leadership in schools that is distributed across the organization; is collaborative in nature; and is enacted through a process of influence. Although teacher leadership is important not only in effective school leadership but also in the development, autonomy, and well-being of teachers, existing elementary school…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Participative Decision Making, Leadership Effectiveness, Power Structure
Flores, Kim; Fierle-Hedrick, Kai – Nellie Mae Education Foundation, 2021
In 2014, the Nellie Mae Education Foundation began funding three projects that together comprise the Grassroots Portfolio: Civic and Family Engagement, Community Organizing, and Amplifying Student Voice and Leadership. This work was part of the Public Understanding and Demand component of NMEF's grantmaking strategy. Following a Foundation-wide…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Social Action, Advocacy, Philanthropic Foundations
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Olivier Michaud; Mathieu Gagnon – Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, 2021
This article aims to reject the assumption that philosophy causes children to reject authority. In this article, the authors take a different perspective on the issues of authority and moral order with regard to Philosophy for Children (P4C) in schools, presenting how the tension appeared in a specific classroom through data collected by the first…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Power Structure, Educational Philosophy
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Karvelis, Noah – Berkeley Review of Education, 2019
In response to a need for increased engagement given the #RedForEd movement, this article draws upon my experience as an organizer and participant in the recent wave of teacher activism to provide implications for theories of teacher agency and political transformation. First, I conceptualize the Arizona #RedForEd movement's unique position beyond…
Descriptors: Teacher Participation, Activism, Power Structure, Social Change
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Anderson, Sian; Bigby, Christine – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2020
Background: The role of support workers in self-advocacy groups is complex. The lack of transparency about who controls the agenda within groups is problematised by commentators but the evidence is limited about how supporters act, exercise power and are regarded by self-advocates. Aim: This study investigated the work of supporters in independent…
Descriptors: Self Advocacy, Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disability, Social Support Groups
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Nishiyama, Kei; Russell, A. Wendy; Chalaye, Pierrick; Greenwell, Tom – Democracy & Education, 2023
Widespread global interest and adoption of deliberative democracy approaches to reinvigorate citizenship and policymaking in an era of democratic crisis/decline has been mirrored by increasing interest in deliberation in schools, both as an approach to pedagogy and student empowerment and as a training ground for deliberative citizenship. In…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Debate, Democracy, Communication Skills
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Sarah Cox – Educational Linguistics, 2022
In this chapter I seek to challenge monolingual teaching methods by proposing an ecological and multilingual ESOL pedagogy through the presentation of findings from an exploratory study with recently arrived adult refugees in Scotland. Using Critical Participatory Action Research and underpinned by decolonising methodology (Phipps A. Decolonising…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Refugees, Educational Needs
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Wilson, Annabel; Reay, Diane; Morrin, Kirsty; Abrahams, Jessie – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
This paper examines the relationship of working-class feminist academics to the Academy. Our paper interrogates tensions between resistance and submission from the perspective of four educationally successful working-class women who have become academics. The paper starts with an overview of the state of the Academy at the beginning of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Working Class, Feminism, College Faculty
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Meinking, Kristina A.; Hall, Eric E. – College Teaching, 2020
As strategies for co-creation in teaching and learning, the democratic classroom and students-as-partners pedagogies seek to empower students by equally distributing the responsibilities of decision-making across the students and instructors in a class. In this essay, we describe and analyze how students in a second-year interdisciplinary seminar…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Democracy, Student Empowerment, Teacher Student Relationship
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Yeji Kim; Sohyun An – Social Studies, 2024
Situating NYC's Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) history curriculum initiative as part of the nationwide movement for K-12 ethnic studies, this article aims to explore perspectives and experiences of six Asian American and migrant elementary teachers regarding the new AAPI history curriculum initiative in NYC. Teachers' stories,…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Elementary School Teachers, Migrants, Teacher Attitudes
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Acai, Anita; Mercer-Mapstone, Lucy; Guitman, Rachel – Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
Gender inequity remains a critical issue in higher education. We explored the proposition that engaging students as partners (SaP), an increasingly adopted approach to student engagement, may present one approach to improving gender equity by fostering agency and leadership for women. First, we analyzed the gender distribution of authors of SaP…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, College Faculty, Women Faculty, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
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Duncan, Kristen E. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2022
This paper presents the findings of a research study that sought to understand the perspectives of exemplary Black teachers utilizing emancipatory pedagogies to help Black students navigate systems of white supremacy in a contemporary American social landscape where racism is simultaneously invisible and hypervisible. Using critical race theory,…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Blacks, African American Students, Teacher Attitudes
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