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Direct linkWilliams, Amber; Richards-Schuster, Katie – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2023
The following article explores how the curricular adaptation of seminal and contemporary definitions of and approaches to transformative justice frameworks can foster student's critical reflection from identity awareness toward critical action informed by collectivist perspectives of social change. Applications in the social work curriculum are…
Descriptors: Social Work, Curriculum Development, Critical Thinking, Social Justice
Fernando Santos; Tarkington J. Newman; Jill Kochanek – Quest, 2024
The emerging commitment to social justice promotion around the world has resulted in the need to develop a pedagogy rooted in anti-oppressive practice (AOP) within youth sport research. The AOP pedagogy acknowledges the importance of three key concepts: cultural competence, cultural humility, and critical consciousness. Moving forward, as youth…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Athletics, Youth, Scholarships
Download full textAutumn Pham; Eva Thanheiser; Kathryn E. Roman; Molly L. Robinson – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
We investigated the development of students' sociopolitical consciousness via engagement in a mathematical activity purposefully designed around understanding the unemployment rate in the US. Qualitative data was collected from 12 university seniors participating in an online capstone class. Results showed that students: (1) further developed…
Descriptors: College Seniors, Mathematics Instruction, Capstone Experiences, Authentic Learning
Susanne Wagner; Gisela Hoecherl-Alden – NECTFL Review, 2024
Considering that fairy tales have long been popular in second language (L2) education, we ask how these texts can remain applicable to our changing student body. In addition to their use in lower-level German classes for language and culture acquisition, fairy tales also provide a springboard into L2 literary interpretation for more advanced…
Descriptors: College Students, German Literature, Fairy Tales, Second Language Instruction
Roper, Larry D. – Journal of College and Character, 2020
Academic courses provide a vehicle through which students can gain knowledge, awareness, and skills to enact meaningful social change. Courses focused on social justice are particularly positioned to provide students with necessary social change competence. This article offers a case example of how a course on social justice can enhance student…
Descriptors: Social Change, Social Justice, Program Effectiveness, Organizational Change
Owens, Chastity L.; Johnson, Annette H.; Thornton, Aubrey – Children & Schools, 2022
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic and rise in racial injustices signaled the need to engage students in macro-level interventions to maximize their contributions to their schools, communities, and society. School social workers are uniquely positioned to elevate student voices, hone their critical thinking skills, and capitalize on their strengths…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Racial Bias, Intervention
Achilleos, Jess; Douglas, Hayley; Washbrook, Yasmin – Education Sciences, 2021
The debate regarding institutional racism and White privilege within higher education (HE) remains prevalent, and higher education institutions (HEIs) are not exempt from the racial equality debate. Youth and Community Work is underpinned by anti-oppressive practice, highlighting a need to educate informal educators on the structural underpinnings…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Ethnicity, Social Justice, College Students
Stephen R. Flemming – English Journal, 2021
Having students read news articles or novels, watch television snippets, engage in class discussions, essay-writing, emailing, and drafting letters are excellent ways to broach any number of society's systemic and oppressive social maladies. Engaging in these activities in the English language arts classroom can serve as a catalyst to encourage…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Scripts, Social Problems, Social Justice
Bentahar, Adil; O'Brien, Jason L. – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2019
This research study measured the impact of Project Citizen on Moroccan students' civic literacy. Project Citizen (PC) is a community problem-solving curriculum which has been implemented in more than 80 countries worldwide. Using mixed methodology, the authors examined the extent to which students' participation in PC had an impact on developing…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Social Justice, Student Participation, Social Change
Weisberg, Lauren; Dawson, Kara – Journal of Teacher Education, 2023
Teacher education programs play a crucial role in developing teachers' equity/social justice mindsets and technology integration knowledge and expertise. Scholars have advocated for merging these two areas to support common curricular goals and access unique learning benefits. However, little is known about how equity pedagogy and technology…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Technology Integration, Preservice Teacher Education, Social Justice
Helkenberg, Davin; Schoenberger, Nicole; Kooy, S. A. Vander; Pemberton, Amanda; Ali, Karim; Bartlett, Sarah; Clair, Jillian; Crombleholme, Sydney; Dee, Alison; DePierro, Kristy; Greenwood, Timothy; Lobzun, Meagan; Petersen, Cassandra; Saunders, Sabrina Redwing; Tarzi, Mary; Ward, Kristyn; Zip, Stacey – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2018
This paper was produced as a collaborative project by a Progressive Librarianship class at an ALA-accredited Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program located in Canada. Recent research in LIS has identified a need for issues of social justice to be discussed more prominently in LIS education. From a uniquely student perspective,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Information Science Education, Library Science
Upadhyay, Bhaskar; Atwood, Erin; Tharu, Baliram – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2020
This case study explores how a group of Grade 9 students engaged in sociopolitical discourses and actions in a science class in a mostly indigenous student school in Nepal. The study used sociopolitical consciousness (SPC) as a framework to document and understand indigenous students' SPC-oriented science interactions and subsequent social change…
Descriptors: High School Students, Science Education, Thinking Skills, Indigenous Populations
Bourn, Douglas – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2016
Teachers are seen as key actors of change within programmes and projects on global learning. But all too often they are regarded in an instrumental way or as promoters of some form of ideal global teacher. Evidence from the UK and elsewhere suggests that if a pedagogical approach is taken to the role of teachers within the process of learning,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Role, Change Agents, Social Change
Moloi, Kholeka C. – Africa Education Review, 2019
The term "social justice" cuts across disciplines and theoretical orientations. Critical theory underpinned the study reported on in this article. Many South African schools, particularly in poverty stricken communities, still experience insurmountable economic and social injustices despite progress since the apartheid regime. The…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Critical Thinking, Social Environment, Civil Rights
Liberal Education for a Troubled Democracy: Cultivating Change Agents at Myanmar's Parami University
Anderson, Kyle David; Tun, Kyaw Moe – Liberal Education, 2019
Myanmar has emerged from a military dictatorship and taken important steps toward greater democratization. The new ruling party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), and its de facto head, State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, are proponents of educational reform, and are slowly refurbishing dilapidated campuses, supporting new education…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Change Agents, Educational Change, Social Change
