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Kelly, Patrick J. – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2008
This report focuses on the 15 states of the West (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming), their ability to educate minorities, and the resulting impact on their workforces and economies. The foundation of the Western U.S. economy rests on…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Labor Force Development, Minority Groups, Students
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Fletcher, Fay – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 2008
Recently, various scholars have remarked that university continuing education (UCE) is moving away from one of its original core foci, that of social justice. In this article, the possible causes of this are discussed, including current political environments, the role of universities and academics in perpetuating or disrupting the status quo, and…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Participatory Research, Continuing Education, Transformative Learning
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Wood, Jeffrey J.; Chiu, Angela W.; Hwang, Wei-Chin; Jacobs, Jeffrey; Ifekwunigwe, Muriel – School Psychology Quarterly, 2008
Mexican American students are the fastest growing group in U.S. public schools. There is a growing body of research indicating that Mexican American families underutilize mental health services and are more likely to drop out of care prematurely when they do seek help. These findings may indicate that our health care system is not providing ethnic…
Descriptors: Health Services, Mexican Americans, School Psychologists, Mental Health Programs
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Lawrence, Randee Lipson – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2008
This article looks at the ways in which people learn informally through artistic expression such as dance, drama, poetry, music, literature, film, and all of the visual arts and how people access this learning through their emotions. The author begins with a look at the limitations of relying primarily on technical-rational learning processes.…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Visual Arts, Art Education, Learning Processes
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Monahan, Torin – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2008
Information technologies are often depicted as possessing the potential to correct social inequalities by democratising information access and economic opportunity. This view of technology, however, tends to overemphasise virtual spaces to the neglect of the material and social conditions of technological infrastructures. The goal of this article…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Public Education, Influence of Technology, Politics of Education
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Hattam, Robert; Prosser, Brenton – Australian Educational Researcher, 2008
In this paper we explore the possibilities for redesigning pedagogy in the middle years of schooling. We think that the middle schooling movement in Australia is unfinished because the pedagogical reforms promised have been patchy, not well researched and difficult to sustain. As well, middle schooling is a little exhausted because it has failed…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Middle Schools
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Lucey, Thomas A.; Hill-Clarke, Kantaylieniere – Teacher Education and Practice, 2008
Hierarchical educational structures employ a standards-driven decision-making atmosphere that challenges teachers' autonomy. This situation represents a critical issue for teacher educators who must consider how they will teach candidates to respond to these settings. We argue that teacher empowerment represents a moral issue that teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Empowerment, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Educators, Teaching Methods
Jones, Laura C.; Webb, P. Taylor; Neumann, Maureen – Issues in Teacher Education, 2008
Teaching literacy skills is inextricably meshed with the work of transformation. When students learn to read and write, they are learning the knowledge and skills needed in order to better understand their world and ultimately to participate in the remaking of their realities. Leadership for social justice is a democratic, empowering relationship…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Literacy Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Democracy
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Bussert-Webb, Kathy – Education Research and Perspectives, 2009
This paper describes a community service learning (CSL) project that helped sixteen Latino/a teacher trainees in the areas of caring, social justice, bias reduction, teaching experience, personal growth, joy, and collaboration. The project was significant because the participants and the children they tutored were all Latinos who had shared…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Hispanic Americans, Gardening, Tutors
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Zou, Xiehua – International Education Studies, 2009
The Chinese government's stated objective of student financial aid (SFA) policy is to help students from low-income families to access higher levels of education. This article first explores the possible associations between the distribution of SFA and students' various demographic and academic backgrounds. Then it presents the findings regarding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Financial Aid, Social Justice, Low Income Groups
Lin, Hsien Hong – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this investigation was to build the blueprint of Taiwanese public higher education's fundraising. This study applied three surveys (NSH, NSC, and NSF) to three populations' samples (public universities, corporations, and foundations in Taiwan) as well as qualitative interviews toward these three populations in order to explore…
Descriptors: Fund Raising, Higher Education, Investigations, Universities
Hartlep, Nicholas D., Ed. – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this critical analysis is to gain quantitatively greater statistical accuracy synthesizing past empirical studies conducted on the topic of social justice curriculum (hereafter SJC) with similar research foci, but dissimilar research questions. Currently there is a clarion call for further quantitative research to be conducted on…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Educational Research, Criticism, Educational Practices
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Breault, Rick A.; Lack, Brian – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2009
In this paper we examine the degree to which recent research and writing about professional development school activity indicates progress toward fulfilling the professional development school model's commitment to providing equitable educational opportunities and outcomes, especially from a critical pedagogy perspective. Our review of 95 papers…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Professional Development Schools, Equal Education, Educational Opportunities
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McCarthy, Cameron; Rezai-Rashti, Goli M.; Teasley, Cathryn – Curriculum Inquiry, 2009
This article presents a review of five chapters in "Part II, Section C: Diversifying Curriculum" of "The SAGE Handbook of Curriculum and Instruction" (F. M. Connelly, M. F. He, J. I. Phillion, Eds.; Sage Publications, 2008). The reviewers suggest that in these chapters ["Curriculum and Cultural Diversity" (Gloria Ladson-Billings, Keffrelyn D.…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Student Attitudes, Popular Culture, Multilingualism
Apple, Michael W., Ed.; Au, Wayne, Ed.; Gandin, Luis Armando, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education" is the first authoritative reference work to provide an international analysis of the relationship between power, knowledge, education, and schooling. Rather than focusing solely on questions of how we teach efficiently and effectively, contributors to this volume push further…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, International Education, Political Attitudes, Economic Development
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