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Vandeyar, Saloshna – South African Journal of Education, 2010
Recognizing that teacher commitments are consequential for classroom practice, this study sets out to determine the extent to which the ethos of South African schools has been transformed towards integration in the truest sense. Findings emanating from this research indicate that teachers do not enter their classrooms as "blank slates"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, School Desegregation, Student Diversity
Walsh, Christine A.; Shier, Micheal L.; Sitter, Kathleen C.; Sieppert, Jackie D. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2010
Social work education accreditation requires the completion of course work specifically around issues related to oppression and diversity within society. Educators offer a range of approaches to engage students in discussion about oppression and diversity from academic content and structured curriculum to reflective practice and experiential…
Descriptors: Social Work, Graduate Students, Social Justice, Teaching Methods
Nisly, Jenelle Susan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
African American students have been historically underrepresented in gifted programs throughout the United States. Research about retaining identified African American students in gifted programs is limited. This qualitative phenomenological study examined the perceptions of a purposeful sample of seven identified talented and potentially talented…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Middle School Students, Gifted, Graduation Rate
Stall, Patricia; Elsbree, Anne Rene; Lawler, Brian R. – Online Submission, 2010
The purpose of this qualitative research was to develop professional dispositions in secondary pre-service teachers. Throughout the one year credential program, we infused a repetitive and deliberate learning sequence directed at practicing habits of reflection. Scenarios, case studies, role plays, simulations and discussions included questions,…
Descriptors: Student Teacher Attitudes, Learning Modules, Student Development, Preservice Teachers
Salili, Farideh, Ed.; Hoosain, Rumjahn, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
Democratic political systems and the democratic way of life is aspired by most people around the world. Democracy is considered to be morally superior to other forms of political systems as it aspires to secure civil liberties, human rights, social justice and equality before the law for everyone regardless of their gender, culture, religion and…
Descriptors: Democracy, Multicultural Education, Cultural Differences, Citizenship Education
Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2010
There has been a great deal of focus in recent years on high school reform as a way to ensure all students graduate ready for a skilled job or additional postsecondary education. As expectations for a more highly educated American citizenry rise, what happens in the middle grades--the beginning of the secondary-to-postsecondary education…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Middle Schools, Middle School Students, College Preparation
McCoy, Leah P., Ed. – Online Submission, 2015
This document presents the proceedings of the 20th Annual Research Forum held June 25, 2015, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Included are the following 21 action research papers: (1) History Lives! The Use of Simulations in a High School Social Studies Classroom (Lydia Adkins); (2) Using Francophone Music in the High…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Action Research, Simulation, Social Studies
McLeod, Cynthia Anne – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2008
Few studies on representations of social class in children's literature have been published in the United States. As a language arts teacher and media specialist in a high poverty school, the author describes children's novels that directly address social class and the subtopic of the labor movement and consider the continued relevance of social…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Social Class, Novels, Childrens Literature
Polat, Soner; Celep, Cevat – Online Submission, 2008
The aim of this study is to determine the perception levels of secondary school vice directors towards organizational justice and organizational trust and establish their inter-relations. This research of descriptional nature covers vice directors working in educational institutions in the school year of 2006-2007; work area of the study covers…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Secondary Schools, Justice, Foreign Countries
Wright, Michael D.; Washer, Barton A.; Watkins, Larae; Scott, Donald G. – Journal of Technology Education, 2008
Akmal et al. (2002) and Sanders (2001) acknowledged the 100-year debate on the purpose[s] of technology education (TE) and its debatable ties to industrial arts. The debate has been further fueled by the fact most states classify TE as career and technical education. However, some of these states allow Carl D. Perkins federal funding to support TE…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Technology Education, Stakeholders, Educational Assessment
Chubbuck, Sharon M.; Zembylas, Michalinos – American Educational Research Journal, 2008
The authors contend that studying emotional perspectives can facilitate understanding of the complexities of socially just teaching. They explore the intersection between emotions and socially just teaching via a case study of a White novice teacher at one urban school as she struggles to formulate socially just teaching practices. Drawing from…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Teacher Education
Thornton, Margaret – Australian Universities' Review, 2008
With particular regard to gender, this paper considers the rise and fall of EEO in Australian universities over the last 30 years. The paper argues that EEO, a product of social liberalism, had barely been introduced before it became a casualty of the Dawkins reforms and the transformation of the university. Corporatisation resulted in top-down…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Critical Theory, Social Justice
Rogers, Margaret R.; O'Bryon, Elisabeth C. – School Psychology Review, 2008
Inequalities and disparities abound in U.S. society. Research studies reveal that across the contexts of people's lives--in the workplace, the home, churches, banking and lending, health care, criminal justice system, and schools--unevenness and disparities exist across racial, gender, sexual orientation, language background, ability, and…
Descriptors: Social Justice, School Psychologists, School Psychology, Educational Strategies
Schamber, Jon F.; Mahoney, Sandra L. – Journal of General Education, 2008
This study investigates the claim that a community-based learning experience of short duration in a first-year general education seminar can result in valid and measurable civic learning outcomes. Through the use of a mixed methods design, this study probes two essential outcomes of civic learning advanced by Saltmarsh (2005), the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Social Justice, General Education, Seminars, Democratic Values
Pugach, Marleen C.; Longwell-Grice, Hope; Ford, Alison; Surma, Maria Andrea – New Educator, 2008
This exploratory study represents an analysis of 15 exit portfolios of students enrolled in a program to prepare teachers for urban schools. Portfolios were analyzed holistically across entries to determine the degree to which students integrated multiple concepts related to teaching in urban schools, including: asset/deficit perspectives,…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Portfolios (Background Materials), Urban Schools, Teacher Education