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Mongeon, Rebecca, Ed.; Tambascio, Donna, Ed. – Wellesley Centers for Women, 2008
The "Research & Action Report," published twice a year, describes the latest activities and initiatives at the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW). Typically featured are: news about the Centers, interviews with researchers, commentary on recent events or social trends affecting women and girls, announcements of new publications, and much more.…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Equal Education, Females, Interviews
American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1990
A sociologist discusses the need for schools to create "social capital," the values and standards once transmitted by the traditional family that equip a child with a sense of self. Argues that schools located in the workplace can re-create and strengthen the ties between parent and child and among parents with children. (FMW)
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Employed Parents, Interviews, Parent Child Relationship
Books, Marilyn – 1997
A discussion of in-depth interviewing as a method for research on language teaching and learning situates the technique within the continuum of research methodology and differentiates it from quantitative research methods. The strengths and weaknesses of in-depth interviewing are examined, methods of sampling are discussed, and advice on the…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection
Bartell, Carol A.; Willis, David B. – 1987
Guided by interpretive ethnographic methods and by instructional leadership concepts, this comparative study of secondary principals in Japan and America discovers characteristics of excellent principals and examines their values in relation to dominant cultural themes. The investigation applies anthropologist Clifford Goertz's assumptions (1973,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context