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Chimaka, Anthony Ikechukwu – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2014
The smallest and most remote villages in the developing countries are affected by the rapid and seemingly irresistible trend towards globalization. The limitless availability of information however necessitates education to stand out as the key factor for human and national development. But which conditions must be met by societies for education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Case Studies, Conventional Instruction
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Landorf, Hilary – Social Education, 2012
A study of human rights prepares students for their role as global citizens and their study of practices in the world's countries that relate to the rights of human beings. Today, when one talks of human rights it is usually with reference to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). It is the task of teachers to give students the…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Civil Rights, Human Dignity, Teaching Methods
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Babaci-Wilhite, Zehlia; Geo-JaJa, Macleans A.; Lou, Shizhou – International Review of Education, 2012
Pre-colonial Africa was neither an educationally nor a technologically unsophisticated continent. While education was an integral part of the culture, issues of language identification and standardisation which are subject to contentious debate today were insignificant. Children learned community knowledge and history by asking questions instead…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Civil Rights, Education
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Walker, Melanie – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2012
The generation of a public-good, capabilities-based approach to professional education in South African universities is outlined and proposed as a contribution to wider social transformation. The relevance and importance of understanding what Amartya Sen describes as "capability failure" in the lives of people living in poverty is…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Professional Education, Foreign Countries, Human Dignity
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Aloni, Nimrod – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2013
In this article I propose a conception of empowering educational dialogue within the framework of humanistic education. It is based on the notions of Humanistic Education and Empowerment, and draws on a large and diverse repertoire of dialogues--from the classical Socratic, Confucian and Talmudic dialogues, to the modern ones associated with the…
Descriptors: Humanistic Education, Educational Philosophy, Dialogs (Language), Empowerment
National Council of Teachers of English, 2015
From 2013 to 2014, more than 66,000 children and adolescents, unaccompanied by their parents, made journeys from urban and rural areas of México and Central America and arrived in the United States in search of safety and educational opportunities. To date, various local, state, and federal agencies, as well as community and faith-based…
Descriptors: Human Dignity, Immigrants, Undocumented Immigrants, Safety
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Anderson, Donnah L.; Graham, Anne P. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2016
The wellbeing of children and young people remains a concern internationally and an increasing focus of policy, programmes, and teacher professional development in schools. Supporting wellbeing is now central to the realisation of children's rights, evidenced by an expanding literature linking children's participation and their wellbeing. As…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Well Being, Mixed Methods Research, Student Attitudes
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Appleman, Deborah – English Journal, 2013
Deborah Appleman's recent research has focused on teaching college-level language and literature courses for incarcerated men. In this article, she discusses using creative writing as a way to unlock creative potential, to foster students' love of language, and to offer a powerful outlet for self-expression in a class she teaches with…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Creative Writing
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Marsh, F. K. – Journal of Catholic Higher Education, 2012
Through technological advancements, people and organizations are capable today of interaction and impact in ways unimaginable a few years ago; such interactions are apparent from micro-level relationships among individuals, groups, and communities, to the macro-level interactions of business, governments, and societies. However, without…
Descriptors: Business Education, Teaching Methods, Human Dignity, Educational Change
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Macmurray, John – Oxford Review of Education, 2012
This article presents "Learning to be Human", which John Macmurray delivered on 5 May 1958 as the annual public lecture at Moray House College of Education, now part of Edinburgh University. The key themes of the paper are ones to which Macmurray returned again and again in both his educational and his philosophical writing for over 40 years and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Practices, Altruism, Values Education
Sohcot, Sandy – Online Submission, 2012
We are pleased to provide the July 2012 edition of the Curriculum and Resource Guide for "The World As It Could Be" Human Rights Education Program. This program, is an outgrowth of a series of successful initiatives carried out since 2006 to educate and inspire youth and adults to further human rights for all people and have greater…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Human Dignity, Resource Materials, Curriculum Guides
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Mucci, Angela Marie – Journal of Catholic Education, 2015
The current study examined how teacher beliefs about the tenets of Catholic Social Teaching (CST)--dignity of the human person, seeking the common good, and preferential option for the poor and vulnerable--affected self-described responses to student behavior problems. In-depth interviews with seven secondary Catholic school teachers were analyzed…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers, Catholic Educators, Catholic Schools
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Hirsch, Miriam – Journal of Jewish Education, 2014
This case study examines the contours of culturally relevant pedagogy in an undergraduate preservice teacher education program for Jewish women. The case describes how the assigned reading of Albarelli's (2000) narrative of teaching in a Hasidic Jewish school, "Teacha! Stories from a Yeshiva", disrupts the classroom community,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Culturally Relevant Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Jews
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Kurt, Layla J.; Piazza, Nick J. – ADULTSPAN Journal, 2012
In 2005, the American Counseling Association (ACA) introduced a new ethical standard for counselors working with clients with terminal illness who are considering hastened death options. The authors' purpose is to inform counselors of the Death With Dignity Act and explore relevant ethical guidelines in the "ACA Code of Ethics" (ACA, 2005).
Descriptors: Professional Associations, Counseling, Ethics, Standard Setting
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Rose, Emily – Social Education, 2011
A recent survey commissioned by the American Red Cross about the attitudes of the post-9/11 generation toward the Geneva Conventions reveals that 59% of youth, compared with 51% of adults, believe that torturing the enemy is always or sometimes acceptable. The Geneva Conventions are at the core of international humanitarian law (IHL) and protect…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Crime, International Law, Human Dignity
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