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Reichardt, Oliver – Education in Science, 2013
For over 250 years, the RSA (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) has been committed to finding practical solutions to today's social challenges. The Society's way of working consists of providing a platform for critical debate and new ideas; working with partners to translate knowledge and progressive thinking…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, STEM Education, Science and Society, Foreign Countries
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Ferreira, António Gomes; Mota, Luís – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2013
We evoke here events that took place in an ordinary school, the Teacher Training College in Coimbra (Portugal), during the on-going revolutionary process ("processo revolucionário em curso"; PREC), in an attempt to understand people's actions within the collective becoming of a certain time and place, and to grasp how memory works as a…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Memory, Foreign Countries, Interviews
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Szelényi, Katalin; Rhoads, Robert A. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2013
Through organizational case studies conducted at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in China and Central European University in Hungary, this paper examines academic culture and citizenship in societies transitioning from communist to market-driven social and economic structures. The article presents a new model of citizenship, representing…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Social Change, Case Studies, Foreign Countries
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Apple, Michael W. – Review of Education, 2013
Most nations--and nations to be--have a history of people asking critical questions about schooling and about the politics of knowledge in which it participates. Is it simply reproducing the ideological goals and cultural forms and content of dominant groups? Could schooling be used to raise serious issues about existing societies? Could it go…
Descriptors: Social Change, Role of Education, African Americans, Social Justice
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Roesch Wagner, Sally; Eckler, Tori; Leighton, Maxinne Rhea – Journal of Museum Education, 2013
Museums in the past have been static institutions, exhibiting their collections as public displays. Today, the public has come to expect more from these institutions, seeing them as safe havens where conversations can begin. As reproductive rights have moved to the forefront of political and social debate, dialogue seems to be a step in the right…
Descriptors: Museums, Females, Gender Issues, Social Justice
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Zhao, Guoping – Frontiers of Education in China, 2013
This paper tackles the issue of education as the process of person-making and attempts to redefine the ideal and unique Chinese person--the Chinese soul--based on a civilizational dialogue and synthesis that would transform modern education and enable education to play a central role in "redeeming modernity" and revitalizing Chinese…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Individual Development, Acculturation, Ideology
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Adams, David – Journal of Peace Education, 2013
The Culture of Peace News Network, an internet news service, is analyzed in the framework of a general approach to education for a culture of peace. Its format reflects the eight program areas for a culture of peace as adopted by the UN General Assembly. Among its other operating principles are universality of news with all cultures and regions of…
Descriptors: Peace, Teaching Methods, Internet, News Reporting
Denny, Flannery – Rethinking Schools, 2013
In the author's eighth year of teaching, she hit a wall teaching percent change. Percent change is one of the few calculations taught in math classes that shows up regularly in the media, and one that she often does in her head to make sense of the world around her. Despite this, she had been teaching percent change using textbook problems about…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Social Change, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education
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Flood, Michael; Martin, Brian; Dreher, Tanja – Australian Universities' Review, 2013
Academics can engage in and contribute to activism in various ways. Some are involved in action groups on issues such as climate change and treatment of asylum seekers. Some undertake research and speak to the media about indigenous, environmental, gender and other issues. Others campaign on matters of concern within universities, including…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Professional Associations, Peer Influence, Activism
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Salazar, Maria del Carmen – Review of Research in Education, 2013
Students and educators are constrained from finding meaning in the current educational system as a result of the tension between educators' pedagogical practices and systemic constraints, such as high-stakes standardized tests and district-mandated instructional curriculum. Such restrictive educational policies limit educators from developing…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Teaching Methods, Humanization, Social Change
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Irby, Decoteau J. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2013
This study presents findings from an ethnographic content analysis of 15 chronological district-wide annual codes of student conduct from a large urban US school district. I frame policy creation and modification processes as reflections of societal shifts in perceptions of student behaviors. I looked to the policy documents to explore the…
Descriptors: Discipline, School Districts, Urban Schools, Discipline Policy
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Shumar, Wesley; Madison, Nora – Ethnography and Education, 2013
This article situates the discussion of virtual ethnography within the larger political/economic changes of twenty-first century consumer capitalism and suggests that increasingly our entire social world is a virtual world and that there were very particular utopian and dystopian framings of virtual community growing out of that history. The…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Social Change, Economic Change, Political Attitudes
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Pasque, Penny A.; Neubauer, Hailey – About Campus, 2013
One undergraduate's transformational story of self-discovery and personal development frames this discussion of the importance of undergraduate involvement in social justice research. In this article, the authors first share a bit about the national landscape regarding community-university engagement initiatives. They also share research findings…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Social Justice, Student Research, School Community Relationship
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Simon, Gregory L.; Wee, Bryan Shao-Chang; Chin, Anne; Tindle, Amy Depierre; Guth, Dan; Mason, Hillary – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2013
As our understanding of complex environmental issues increases, institutions of higher education are evolving to develop new learning models that emphasize synthesis across disciplines, concepts, data, and methodologies. To this end, we argue for the implementation of environmental science education at the intersection of systems theory and…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Environmental Education, Systems Approach, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Gorzelsky, Gwen – College English, 2013
By analyzing Zen guided meditations, I argue that literacy researchers can improve the field's conceptual tools by investigating experiential knowledge. Using work on procedural knowledge and the emotional bases of perception, cognition, and decision making, I show that experiential knowledge drives perceptions and action, thus shaping…
Descriptors: Literacy, Experiential Learning, Social Change, Individual Development
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