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Mariani, Ilaria; Gandolfi, Enrico – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2016
This study shows the results gathered from 141 subjects playing the persuasive urban game "A Hostile World" via a post-game-experience quantitative questionnaire. The aim is to problematize and deepen the role of negative emotions (e.g., frustration, rage)--explicitly fostered by "A Hostile World" to increase empathy toward…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Social Change, Questionnaires, Affective Behavior
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Lo, William Yat Wai – Comparative Education, 2016
Interpreting modernisation and globalisation in East Asia as processes of Westernisation creates confusion and discomfort among some academics from the region. To illustrate why such discomfort occurs, this article explores the changes in the higher education systems of Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China in terms of their "Chineseness"…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
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Shavit, Zohar – Journal of Jewish Education, 2016
Members of the Jewish Enlightenment movement and Jewish financial entrepreneurs undertook an active, conscious project to effect significant transformations in the Jewish habitus in German-speaking areas during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. A symbiotic relationship allowed these groups to disseminate a new vision of Jewish society…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Jews, Judaism, Entrepreneurship
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Kahne, Joseph; Hodgin, Erica; Eidman-Aadahl, Elyse – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2016
The digital revolution has enabled important changes in political life. Opportunities to engage in "participatory politics" have expanded significantly. Participatory politics differ from institutional politics in that they are peer-based, interactive, and not guided by deference to traditional elites and institutions. These changes…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Citizen Participation, Educational Change
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Miller, Hannah K. – Journal of Environmental Education, 2016
Interdisciplinary sustainability programs are emerging globally, but little is known about the learning in these educational contexts. This qualitative case study examined undergraduates' experience in a Sustainability Semester, using the agency/structure dialectic as a theoretical lens. Before the semester, students' models of change for…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Undergraduate Students, Sustainability, Social Change
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Rosch, David M.; Stephens, Clinton M.; Collins, Jasmine D. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2016
The LeaderShape Institute is a popular immersion-based leadership program that is hosted on dozens of university campuses and conducted nationally each year. As part of a comprehensive research effort, a sample of 1,279 students at 21 participating institutions completed a pre-test prior to participating, as well as a post-test immediately after…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Pretests Posttests, Leadership Qualities, Program Effectiveness
Hindley, Barbara – Boston Foundation, 2016
In the fall of 2009, the Boston Foundation announced a new strategic framework, "Thriving People, Vibrant Places", to guide much of its work for the next five years. The framework had its roots in a larger strategic direction first taken by the Foundation's Board of Directors in 2001. At that time, the Board believed the Boston…
Descriptors: Social Change, Community Development, Grants, Citizenship
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van der Walt, Johannes L. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2016
Countries all over the world find themselves in the throes of revolution, change, transition or transformation. Because of the complexities of these momentous events, it is no simple matter to describe and evaluate them. This paper suggests that comparative educationists apply a combination of three theories as a lens through which such national…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Educational Research
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Gonzalez, Lauren Kelley; Austin, Stephen F. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The United States of America is known to be one of the most culturally, racially, and ethnically diverse countries in the world. With this comes the increasing diversity among school populations, making multicultural education necessary at all levels of education while integrating a culturally inclusive world-view into all areas of the curriculum.…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Cultural Pluralism, Student Diversity, Multicultural Education
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Gach, Nataliia – Issues in Educational Research, 2020
This research focuses on revealing the role of culture of education in shaping students' and teachers' attitudes to the learning process, which is largely determined by the political and social context in which it takes place. This exploration of the cultural nature of autonomy of the Ukrainian university students majoring in translation from…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Political Influences
Ogude, Nthabiseng A.; Mathabathe, Kgadi C.; Mthethwa, Nosipho; White, Regina – Metropolitan Universities, 2020
The University of Pretoria (UP) adopted an anchor institution strategy and designated the Mamelodi Campus as a faculty with a focus on community engagement with the primary goal of broadening educational pathways to post-secondary school attainment. As a conceptual shift from the community engagement literature, the Mamelodi Campus identifies the…
Descriptors: Universities, Strategic Planning, Campuses, School Community Relationship
Noboa-Ríos, Abdín – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2020
The year 2011 marked the first time in U.S. history where more "nonwhite" babies were born than "white" babies. Academic year 2014-15 marked the first year that K-12 public school enrollment became predominantly nonwhite. Among the five largest school districts, Latinos represent the predominant group. It's all about a stemming…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Hispanic American Students, School Districts
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Gecan, Michael – Thought & Action, 2013
As the co-director of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), a network founded by Saul Alinsky in 1940 that partners with faith and community-based organizations to improve local leadership and citizen-led action, the author has witnessed how power organizing can work. In the first few months of 2013, the author had been privileged to be part of a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Action, Organization, Meetings
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Loogma, Krista; Tafel-Viia, Külliki; Ümarik, Meril – Journal of Educational Change, 2013
The intention of the authors in this article is to contribute to the discussion concerning educational change by implementing the concept of social innovation. We argue that the application of the concept of social innovation makes it possible to better understand the process of implementation as well as sustainability and the social impact of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Innovation, Social Change, Models
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Scott, Alan – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2013
This article is both a personal response to Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" and an examination of the concept within literature of making the strange familiar and making the familiar strange. It discusses the educative force and potential of Beckett's strangers in a strange world by examining my own personal experiences…
Descriptors: Drama, Twentieth Century Literature, Familiarity, Alienation
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