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Langdon, Jonathan – Education as Change, 2022
Social movements are at the forefront of fighting for another world as conceptualised through Arundhati Roy's portal. COVID-19 and state measures imposed to contend with it have severely impacted not only the activism of movements, but also their capacity to learn. Translocal social movement learning offers one way in which such learning can…
Descriptors: Social Change, COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries
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Schutz, Aaron – Philosophical Studies in Education, 2022
Educational theory has tended to avoid discussions of how the less powerful might come together to contest oppression. Yet strategies for collective action are learned practices, like any others. While there are no "rules" for social action, different traditions provide useful "rules of thumb." This article lays out some core…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Community Action, Empowerment, Social Change
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Savage, Brenda – Teaching Sociology, 2022
The learning outcome, "Students will learn to engage with and impact society," is common in curricular frameworks addressing undergraduate sociology education; however, it does not receive adequate coverage compared to other competencies. The lack of attention to this outcome coupled with the tendency to focus heavily on social problems…
Descriptors: Sociology, Community Action, Community Involvement, Undergraduate Students
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Baker, Vicki L.; Walling, Carrie Booth – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2023
Employing an institutional case study approach, this manuscript features two high-impact learning opportunities open to Albion College students who seek to contribute to solving real-world problems in collaboration with local and surrounding communities: Albion College Community Collaborative (AC3) and Human Rights Lab. The programmatic approach…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Higher Education, School Community Programs, Partnerships in Education
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Marshall, Chelsea; Cook, Ruth – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2020
In the context of a dramatic rise in food bank use in Scotland, the A Menu for Change project, delivered by Oxfam Scotland, Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland, Nourish Scotland and The Poverty Alliance, aimed to reduce the need for emergency food aid by improving local responses to food insecurity. Between 2017 and 2019, project officers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Food, Hunger, Food Service
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Jane Booth – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
This paper will argue for routine, reciprocal and meaningful partnerships between the University and the local community. Participation in both policymaking and the generation of knowledge has traditionally been dominated by over-represented groups, drawing on the limited expertise of professionals and practitioners. However, an increasing body of…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Disadvantaged Environment, Social Sciences
Marilyn Arleen Williams – ProQuest LLC, 2021
There seems to be "open season" on the lives of young, unarmed African American men and women in the United States. Stand Your Ground law/Castle Doctrine has become the tool of legal lynching in the United States. Across varied and diverse communities, leaders are grappling with this phenomenon with a sense of urgency. This qualitative…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Safety, African American Leadership, Racism
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Bailey, Jennifer – Religious Education, 2020
This paper highlights two emerging models for how religious education is evolving in new venues to reach new audiences today. The first is an online course that equips a new generation of chaplains to accompany community organizers and activists on the front lines of social change by providing spiritual and emotional support. The second is…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Teaching Methods, Models, Online Courses
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Govan, Rashida H.; Fernandez, Jesica Siham; Lewis, Deana G.; Kirshner, Ben – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2015
This chapter details the ways youth community organizing strategies can inform leadership educators' approaches to engaging marginalized youth in leadership development for social change.
Descriptors: Youth Leaders, Youth Programs, Leadership Training, Community Action
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Moyer, Jeffrey S.; Warren, Mark R.; King, Andrew R. – Harvard Educational Review, 2020
The use of narratives and storytelling has become an increasingly common strategy in grassroots organizing and advocacy efforts to influence policy change. Drawing on qualitative interviews and observations, Jeffrey Moyer, Mark Warren, and Andrew King present a case study of the successful campaign by Voices of Youth in Chicago Education (VOYCE)…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Advocacy, Public Policy, Correctional Institutions
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Spaaij, Ramón; Oxford, Sarah; Jeanes, Ruth – Sport, Education and Society, 2016
The value of sport as a vehicle for social development and progressive social change has been much debated, yet what tends to get missed in this debate is the way education may foster, enable or impede the transformative action that underpins the social outcomes to which the "sport for development and peace" (SDP) sector aspires. This…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Social Development, Social Change, Sport Psychology
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Richards-Schuster, Katie; Ruffolo, Mary C.; Nicoll, Kerri Leyda; Distelrath, Catherine; Galura, Joseph A. – International Journal of ePortfolio, 2014
Providing opportunities to foster students' civic engagement during their undergraduate education is a goal of many universities. There are a variety of ways in which students participate in community service and in community change efforts and social change initiatives; capturing how students integrate these experiences into their broader…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Electronic Publishing, Citizen Participation, Undergraduate Students
McAfee, Michael; Torre, Mauricio – Voices in Urban Education, 2015
In this article, Michael McAfee and Mauricio Torre reflect on the successes and challenges of the Promise Neighborhoods movement as it works toward education equity, and on what it takes to effect large-scale, sustainable change for low-income communities and communities of color. Together they discuss the Chula Vista Promise Neighborhood project…
Descriptors: Neighborhood Improvement, Success, Programs, Equal Education
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Westheimer, Joel – Democracy & Education, 2011
Fehrman and Schutz contend that the fine balance between having students experience real-world obstacles to social change and having them learn how to navigate around those obstacles can be achieved by having adults both pre-select community action projects that are both possible and meaningful to ensure a modicum of success, and jump in and…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Action, Social Change, Social Action
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Kovacs, Katalin – Journal of Rural Studies, 2012
The paper discusses local responses to schooling policy in the context of the uneven differentiation and sharp social polarisation of the Hungarian countryside. Counter-urbanisation, on the one hand, has brought affluent urban middle classes to suburban spaces, on the other hand, peripheral areas are becoming impoverished with high unemployment,…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Small Schools, Institutional Survival, Municipalities
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