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Petrone, Eleanor A. – Ethnography and Education, 2016
This qualitative study examines how a group of Latino/a high school students living in the Southeast used youth media as a forum to promote a selective pattern of acculturation. The study explores the ways in which the students' discourse emphasised the maintenance of the students' home culture and privileged "familismo," a cultural…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, High School Students, Cultural Maintenance, Family Structure
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Kim, Kyung Hi – Education as Change, 2017
By adopting Sen's capability approach, this study explores transformative educational actions for children in poverty to develop their capabilities for learning for life. Sen's capability approach provides a framework for why it is important to foster the capabilities of children in poverty and what is required to help these children to improve…
Descriptors: Poverty, Transformative Learning, Equal Education, Lifelong Learning
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Burke, Kevin J.; Greene, Stuart; McKenna, Maria K. – Urban Education, 2016
The article draws on work in Critical Geography Studies and Photovoice methodology, to illustrate the ways in which youth in an inner city conceptualize neighborhoods and public spaces. We utilize youth's photographs, narratives, and maps to tell a story of youth's lived experiences and argue that these experiences are vital sources of knowledge…
Descriptors: Geography, Geography Instruction, Urban Environment, Physical Environment