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Butler, Tamara T. – Review of Research in Education, 2018
Drawing on research in education, Black Girlhood studies, and conversations connected to girlhood and cartography, this chapter calls for transdisciplinary analyses of Black girls' sociocultural and geopolitical locations in education research. In reviewing education research documenting the practices and interrogating the experiences of Black…
Descriptors: Females, Educational Research, Interdisciplinary Approach, Cartography
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Carlerby, Heidi; Viitasara, Eija; Knutsson, Anders; Gadin, Katja Gillander – Social Indicators Research, 2013
This study aimed to analyze how bullying involvement is associated with the distribution of parental background and with subjective health complaints (SHC) among Swedish boys and girls. Data were collected from the World Health Organization, Health Behavior in School-aged Children (WHO/HBSC) survey, measurement years 1997/1998, 2001/2002 and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Health Behavior, Adolescents
Jeong, Heeok – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This discourse-oriented ethnographic case study, using constant comparison, critical discourse analysis (CDA) and cultural-historical-activity theory (CHAT) within a Foucauldian framework, investigates how the pedagogical practices of 2 teachers of English learners were (trans)formed over the course of 1.5 academic years, and how their…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Case Studies, Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods
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Cronje, Franci – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2010
This article explores emerging patterns of communication within a multicultural school environment. South Africa consists various and different identities all sharing overlapping living spaces. Diverse cultural identities exist in public spaces, and family units are in many cases so hybrid that very few adolescents can define themselves as…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Family Environment, Educational Environment, Self Concept
van Oers, Bert, Ed.; Wardekker, Wim, Ed.; Elbers, Ed, Ed.; van der Veer, Rene, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2010
Learning is a changing phenomenon, depending on the advances in theory and research. This book presents a relatively new approach to learning, based on meaningful human activities in cultural practices and in collaboration with others. It draws extensively from the ideas of Lev Vygotsky and his recent followers. The book presents ideas that…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Play, Informal Education, Distance Education