Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Education Economics (2)
- Educational Administration and Supervision (2)
- Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research (2)
- Educational Leadership (2)
- Educational Methods (2)
-
- Other Education (2)
- Teacher Education and Professional Development (2)
- Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching (1)
- Agency (1)
- Civil Rights and Discrimination (1)
- Curriculum and Instruction (1)
- Curriculum and Social Inquiry (1)
- Education Law (1)
- Educational Psychology (1)
- Elementary Education and Teaching (1)
- Elementary and Middle and Secondary Education Administration (1)
- Holistic Education (1)
- Humane Education (1)
- Junior High, Intermediate, Middle School Education and Teaching (1)
- Law (1)
- Other Teacher Education and Professional Development (1)
- Secondary Education and Teaching (1)
- Keyword
Articles 1 - 3 of 3
Full-Text Articles in Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education
Innovating Education Through Design Thinking: A Case Study Of Problem-Solving Educators, Matthew Pimental
Innovating Education Through Design Thinking: A Case Study Of Problem-Solving Educators, Matthew Pimental
West Chester University Doctoral Projects
This study aimed to identify methodologies and practices that enable innovation to thrive in the public education system. Design thinking (DT) was selected for examination given its demonstrated ability to: (a) make people and teams more innovative , (b) change institutional cultures to be more creative and solution-oriented, and (c) create conditions necessary for innovation to thrive within established organizational structures. This intrinsic case study explored the experiences of a group of educators who used design thinking to innovate solutions to the intractable problems they faced. Participants in this study were teachers and administrators who received training in DT, and …
Equitable Funding For Trauma Informed Social Policy: A Critical Analysis Of The 2019-2020 Pennsylvania Department Of Education School Safety And Security Grant Program, Heather Bickley
West Chester University Doctoral Projects
This study is a critical analysis of the funding distribution of the 2019-2020 Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) School Safety and Security Grant (SSSG) to identify if there is evidence of inequity in the grant's funding distribution. It used a theoretical framework that includes a transformative paradigm with trauma informed social policy as a theoretical lens, with the conceptual lenses education debt and distributive justice, applied to a concurrent mixed methods design. The research followed a QuantCrit methodology, and the features of a critical policy analysis were used to present the findings.
The quantitative tests found several significant …
Transformative Social Emotional Learning: A Call To Heal The Effects Of Racial Trauma On Identity And Self-Efficacy, Elizabeth Trostle
Transformative Social Emotional Learning: A Call To Heal The Effects Of Racial Trauma On Identity And Self-Efficacy, Elizabeth Trostle
West Chester University Master’s Theses
Growing up I was never a child that loved school. I fell in love with learning in environments that did not look or feel like classrooms. And in 2005 I learned that I had a passion for learning about pedagogy. I entered the classroom again this time as a teacher, ready to engage students in learning. What I was offered was curriculum and learning standards that left little room for experiences. Despite my efforts, and after a decade of experience, I was still baffled by the resistance to learning.
I wanted to understand this because I saw that education—when you …