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Sayer, Peter – AILA Review, 2019
There has been a rapid global expansion of English instruction in the early grades in public school curricula. Particularly in so-called developing countries, the increase of and its shift from exclusively private to public education is linked to the idea that acquiring English promotes personal, social, and economic development. The author takes…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Markose, Susan Jacqueline; Simpson, Alyson – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2016
In Australia, students from Chinese and Arabic language backgrounds form the largest minority language groups in the New South Wales (NSW) public school system. Yet the mainstream academic performance of students from these two communities show marked differences in their levels of attainment. This article explores the home literacy practices of…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Parent Aspiration, Parent Attitudes, Asians
Calarco, Jessica McCrory – American Sociological Review, 2011
What role do children play in education and stratification? Are they merely passive recipients of unequal opportunities that schools and parents create for them? Or do they actively shape their own opportunities? Through a longitudinal, ethnographic study of one socioeconomically diverse, public elementary school, I show that children's…
Descriptors: Working Class, Ethnography, Help Seeking, Social Class
Flores, Glenda Marisol – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This is the first major study of the professional lives and workplace experiences of Latina teachers who work in urban, multiracial schools. While there is a plethora of research on Latina immigrant women working in factories, the informal economy and low skill-jobs in the U.S., the work experiences of college-educated Latina professionals, with a…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Schools, African American Community, Race
Ruairc, Gerry Mac – Irish Educational Studies, 2009
The recent decision by the Department of Education and Science in the Republic of Ireland to introduce the mandatory testing of children in Irish primary schools provides the broad context for this paper. This decision has particular implications for schools designated as disadvantaged. The main focus of this study is on identifying the strategies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Schools, Standardized Tests, Disadvantaged Youth
Davis, Pauline – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2007
This article reports on case study research of seven- and eight-year-old children's discourse about reading. The case studies were selected to provide classrooms in contrasting neighbourhoods within a white "working class" town in the North of England. Mixed methods were employed, but primarily the case studies were ethnographic in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociocultural Patterns, Middle Class, Case Studies
Zhou, Xin; Wang, Bin – Early Child Development and Care, 2004
Two samples of preschool children's representation and understanding of written number symbols was examined in two time points in one academic year. About 40% of Chinese four year olds (mean=4:7) were able to use conventional number symbols to represent the quantity of ten, on average. The majority of these children (85%) could represent written…
Descriptors: Numbers, Number Concepts, Longitudinal Studies, Cognitive Development