Few studies assess the long-term impacts of programs for teenagers designed to foster leadership and public service. Here we contact former participants in one such program, the Champions of Caring Ambassadors Leadership Program, to see how they may have been influenced in adulthood. We find that participants remember specific aspects of the…

The practice of school inspections is well-established across many European countries. While it is part of broader international traditions and trends, the Flemish Education Inspectorate takes a unique approach. The Education Inspectorate engages in dialogue with schools and operates in a participatory manner. This case study explores the effects…

This article draws on the scholarship of Black Critical Theory in education. It enriches this literature by provocatively commanding scholarly and methodological space for Mad Studies to explore, understand and address, distressed Black pupils' experiences of anti-Black sanism in education in Britain. Currently limited by the proliferation of…

Activists in K-12 educational settings have challenged the reach of the criminal legal system into school contexts through the pervasive use of school resource officers (SROs). Community organizations, student leaders, and teachers (among others) have challenged the ways in which SROs perpetuate systemic racism and structural injustice in schools,…

Supporting fairness in the assessment of group work remains an ongoing challenge for instructors, particularly that students feel their individual contributions need to be evaluated equitably. This study draws on social psychology and critical theories to examine the conditions that shape students' perceptions of fairness and associated tensions…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify key school leadership practices that center social justice and are evidenced across multiple school and district contexts. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative, multidistrict research design is used within this study. Sampled across seven US school districts, 24 school leaders were…

Oral historians have declared the methodology a social justice project. This essay advances that discussion, positing that oral history methodology may represent a more specific "racial" justice project when coupled with critical race theory. An examination of the history of African American education scholarship, we argue, supports this…

Anatomy educators are often at the forefront of adopting innovative and advanced technologies for teaching, such as artificial intelligence (AI). While AI offers potential new opportunities for anatomical education, hard lessons learned from the deployment of AI tools in other domains (e.g., criminal justice, healthcare, and finance) suggest that…

This article establishes a framework for teaching and learning for mutual respect. I define mutual respect as intervening on power asymmetries typically found in classrooms by way of according students increased equality, autonomy, and equity. In highlighting how equality, autonomy, and equity interact in ongoing and unpredictable ways in…

We examine the meaning and salience of social justice and solidarity building in higher education for Indigenous peoples through the lens of Indigenous resurgence. Indigenous resurgence centers Indigenous worldviews to guide our understanding and behavior while also prioritizing relationality to determine where and how to build solidarities with…

The beginning of 2020 marked the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and a new reality. Mainstream learning loss discourse emerged as young people faced new social challenges and rising inequities. However, how we define some of these challenges may pose new barriers to equity promotion. Deficit-based narratives often negatively construct youth…

This research, conducted jointly by history and modern language teacher educators working in a higher education institution, evaluates the impact of a project to 'Decolonise Postgraduate Teacher Education', started in summer 2020. This project involved the creation of an action planner aimed to cultivate tutors' and student teachers' racial…

Action research is an essential practice that aligns deeply with how Montessori tasks educators with being scientists, saints, and servants. These three roles anchor educators' understanding and efforts as they seek to incorporate action research into Montessori pedagogy. In this article, the author offers a way to incorporate critical reflection…

Belonging matters in early childhood. Despite its importance, the majoritarian conceptualization of belonging is seldom problematized. In the US, the politics of belonging draws racialized lines of inclusion and exclusion, (re)inscribing longstanding racialized systems of inequity and injustice. Through critical race and Latina feminist…

Higher education seems to be in a perpetual state of 'crisis'. The many hundreds of books and papers containing this specific, or other relevantly similar expressions, convey a sense of fear and angst. Yet, what are these various crises about, and which values and beliefs are seen as threatened or 'under attack'? This paper will provide an…