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Tripses, Jenny S.; Hatfield, Kevin; Risen, D. Michael – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2005
This article describes the authors' journey as three educational leadership professors implementing a program to improve teaching for social justice. The social change agents they seek to nurture in their graduate program are individuals who are keenly aware of inequities in society and possess the knowledge, skills, and will to make a difference…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Change Agents, Social Change, Educational Change
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Lopez, Gerardo R. – Journal of School Leadership, 2004
This article presents the author's reaction to Catherine Marshall and Michael Ward's article on research on social justice and training for leadership. Marshall and Ward's article provides an informative lens into how influential leaders perceive the role and importance of social justice training in the field of educational leadership. Marshall…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Leadership Training, Instructional Leadership, Professional Development
Chang, Lu; Geiser, Kristin D.; Ferrera, Robert J. – Issues in Teacher Education, 2003
Teacher preparation programs in California are governed by standards established by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC). In September 1998, pursuant to Senate Bill 2042 (SB2042), California's recent comprehensive teacher credentialing legislation, the Commission launched an extensive effort on standards and assessment…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Change, Private Colleges, Small Colleges
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Capozzi, Richard – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2005
2005 marks the beginning of the UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), but awareness of this event is practically nonexistent in the New York City public high school where the author teaches English. A concerted effort to teach for--or even about--sustainability in mathematics, science, business and humanities classes is more…
Descriptors: School Culture, Sustainable Development, Humanities, High Schools
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Franck, Kevin C. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2002
This article challenges the reader to think of homophobia as a negative social force affecting all members of an urban school community. The author argues that homophobia can only be undone if it is attacked at the intersection of race, class, and gender. A description of an anti-homophobia plan for an urban high school follows a brief discussion…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Homosexuality, Attitudes, Perspective Taking
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Alsbury, Thomas L.; Shaw, Nanci L. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2005
The pressures of a nation-wide decline in educational funding coupled with the increase in demands for accountability has renewed legislative discussion about the efficacy of school consolidation. This national survey of school superintendents who have experienced school merger, explored the effects of consolidation on school communities,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, School Districts, Superintendents
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Brown, Lionel H.; Larsen, Judith; Britt, Ruth S.; Yao, Yao; Brown, Jean P.; Beck, Ryan – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2006
In this first-person paper, educator Dr. Lionel Brown takes a sweeping look at the racial crises that have erupted in his home city of Cincinnati during his lifetime, and proposes that education is the only real, long-term way of addressing and disrupting the repeating pattern of violence. He highlights a selection of current and proposed…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Race, Conflict, Social Justice
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Picower, Bree – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2007
Urban public schools and their teachers are under siege. From increased standardization, privatization and testing to a growing number of students whose needs are not being met by schools, urban public school teachers face a daunting task. Without a space in which to critically examine their daily experiences within schools, many well-intentioned…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Public Schools
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Young, Bridget; Rice, Helen; Dixon-Woods, Mary; Colver, Allan F.; Parkinson, Kathryn N. – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2007
This qualitative study investigated what disabled children thought most important in their lives and examined how well their priorities are represented in KIDSCREEN, a generic health-related quality of life (HRQoL) instrument. Participants were a subgroup of families who had previously taken part in a study of quality of life and participation in…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Recreational Activities, Family Life, Quality of Life
Normore, Anthony H., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2008
Within this book Leadership for Social Justice: Promoting Equity and Excellence Through Inquiry and Reflective Practice the contributors provide a variety of rich perspectives to the social justice phenomenon from the lens of empirical, historical, narrative, and conceptual designs. These designs reiterate the importance of bridging theory and…
Descriptors: Social Justice, School Personnel, Leadership, Rural Schools
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Reisberg, Mira – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2008
This study explores the concept of finding pleasure in social and ecological caring from the a/r/tographic stance of the author as artist, researcher, and teacher. I combine place-based and visual culture art education with multicultural children's picture books to promote more connection and pleasure in the teaching and learning process. The…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Art Education, Educational Change, Art Teachers
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Blokhuis, Jason C. – American Educational Research Journal, 2008
If the notion of public and private spheres seems somehow quaint or old-fashioned, the distinction between public and private corporations will be that much more obscure. Yet Channel One broadcasts in a public school classroom are indisputably the result of a contract between a private corporation (Alloy Media + Marketing) and a public corporation…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Interests, Boards of Education, Corporations
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Minkler, Meredith; Vasquez, Victoria Breckwich; Tajik, Mansoureh; Petersen, Dana – Health Education & Behavior, 2008
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) increasingly is being used to study and address environmental justice. This article presents the results of a cross-site case study of four CBPR partnerships in the United States that researched environmental health problems and worked to educate legislators and promote relevant public policy. The…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Environmental Education, Public Policy, Case Studies
Adamson, Peter – UNICEF, 2005
This review of child poverty in rich countries finds that the proportion of children living in poverty in the developed world has risen in 17 out of the 24 OECD nations for which data are available. No matter which of the commonly-used poverty measures is applied, the situation of children is seen to have deteriorated over the last decade. UNICEF…
Descriptors: Poverty, Children, Developed Nations, Social Justice
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Banks, James A. – Multicultural Perspectives, 2004
The author was in the seventh grade at the Newsome Training School in Aubrey, Arkansas when the Supreme Court handed down "Brown v. Board of Education" on May 17, 1954. His most powerful memory of the "Brown" decision is that he has no memory of it being rendered or mentioned by his parents, teachers, or preachers. In his rural…
Descriptors: African American Community, Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Effects
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