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Tia Brown McNair, Editor – American Association of Colleges and Universities, 2024
This edited volume serves as a guide for creating a more equitable future for our communities through the collaborative efforts of higher education institutions and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation's national Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation™ (TRHT) efforts. It highlights the work of the American Association of Colleges and Universities…
Descriptors: Racial Relations, Racial Integration, Racial Attitudes, Social Justice
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Pasha, Aamna – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2023
Global education is a broad field associated with educational traditions rooted in the objective of preparing learners to engage with a complex and interdependent world, and to respond to the needs of the planet. This article explores existing pedagogical approaches to argue for the need, in non-Western contexts, to make greater connections with…
Descriptors: Global Education, Teaching Methods, Non Western Civilization, Climate
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Acuff, Joni Boyd; Spillane, Sunny; Wolfgang, Courtnie N. – Art Education, 2017
From the Pulse nightclub massacre to the brutal police killings of unarmed Black men, women, and children, the summer of 2016 saw a wave of deadly violence and hatred leveled at Black and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities. In the aftermath of this violence, which included prolific public dialogue across traditional…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Violence, Social Bias, Racial Bias
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Nicol, Lynn – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2016
Global Citizenship Education (GCE), in its noblest terms, is a commitment made by educators to provide students with opportunities to situate themselves as citizens within a global community. The author's presentation addressed the lay of the land for global citizenship and human rights education in early years spaces. Drawing upon the context of…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Holistic Approach, Civil Rights, Foreign Countries
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Cooper, Sheryl B.; Cripps, Jody H.; Reisman, Joel I. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2013
A literature review identified various kinds of altruism, including altruism devoted to social change and a charitable form of altruism, along with the concept that it is possible for these types to occur independently or simultaneously. A study was conducted with university students in a Deaf studies program to determine the effect of a…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Student Attitudes, Social Services, Altruism
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Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2010
Humanity is part of a vast evolving universe. Earth is alive with a unique community of life. The forces of nature make existence a demanding and uncertain adventure, but Earth has provided the conditions essential to life's evolution. The resilience of the community of life and the well-being of humanity depend upon preserving a healthy biosphere…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Ecology, Conservation (Environment), Global Approach
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Holst, John D. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2010
The article identifies dispositions from a thematic investigation of the pedagogical practice of Ernesto Che Guevara and various social movements in the United States. The article outlines and places these dispositions within the context of debates over social justice and dispositions for education program accreditation in the United States that…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Adult Education, Teaching Methods, Social Change
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Smyth, Russell; Mishra, Vinod; Qian, Xiaolei – Social Indicators Research, 2010
This paper examines, how individual preferences for redistribution in general and redistribution to improve access to education, improve social protection for the poor, reduce income inequality and reduce unemployment depend on beliefs about what determines one's lot in life and self-assessed prospects for climbing the social ladder in urban…
Descriptors: Altruism, Income, Economically Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries