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Educators as Transformative Intellectuals: Taiwanese Teacher Activism during the National Curriculum Controversy
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Hung, Cheng-Yu – Curriculum Inquiry, 2018
In early 2014, a group of senior high school teachers initiated a series of campaigns to fight against the government's imposition of a revised history and citizenship education curriculum, an unprecedented display of opposition in the history of public schools in Taiwan. They rose above the traditional stereotype of the schoolteacher common…
Descriptors: Social Change, National Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
Unsilencing Critical Conversations in Social-Studies Teacher Education Using Agent-Based Modeling
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Hostetler, Andrew; Sengupta, Pratim; Hollett, Ty – Cognition and Instruction, 2018
In this article, we argue that when complex sociopolitical issues such as ethnocentrism and racial segregation are represented as complex, emergent systems using agent-based computational models (in short agent-based models or ABMs), discourse about these representations can disrupt social studies teacher candidates' dispositions of teaching…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Learning Activities, Race, Power Structure
Multicultural Group Work on Field Excursions to Promote Student Teachers' Intercultural Competence
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Brendel, Nina; Aksit, Fisun; Aksit, Selahattin; Schrüfer, Gabriele – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2016
As a response to the intercultural challenges of Geography Education, this study seeks to determine factors fostering intercultural competence of student teachers. Based on a one-week multicultural field excursion of eight German and eight Turkish students in Kayseri (Turkey) on Education for Sustainable Development, we used qualitative interviews…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Geography Instruction, Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication
Ideas for Intercultural Education
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Marginson, Simon; Sawir, Erlenawati – Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Written by a cross-cultural pair of authors, "Ideas for Intercultural Education" takes a critical look at present approaches to international education, focusing on the intercultural potential that it offers but mostly fails to deliver. The underlying premise of this profound, engaging book is that international education can be a transforming…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Multicultural Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Methods
Examining Teachers' Hurdles to "Science for All"
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Southerland, Sherry; Gallard, Alejandro; Callihan, Laurie – International Journal of Science Education, 2011
The goal of this research is to identify science teachers' beliefs and conceptions that play an important role in shaping their understandings of and attempts to enact inclusive science teaching practices. We examined the work products, both informal (online discussions, email exchanges) and formal (papers, unit plans, peer reviews), of 14…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Assessing the Cultural Proficiency of Teachers: A Critical Perspective
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Dennie, Deborah A. G. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This critical case study addressed how the achievement gap reflects the culture gap between teachers and historically underrepresented students. This study allows educators to consider how attitudes on culture and diversity impact student achievement. It makes visible existing teacher and student relationships in a rural school system through the…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Case Studies, Achievement Gap, Interviews