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Buck, Brandon – Journal of Catholic Education, 2016
This paper presents a case study of a yearlong research-based peace education program at one urban K-8 private Catholic school situated in a community plagued by structural violence in an enclave of a large Midwestern city. To frame the analysis, the author employs concepts central to culturally responsive pedagogy (including cultural competence,…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Peace, Violence, Urban Schools
Jun, Eun Jeong – Multicultural Education Review, 2016
This study examines the ways in which two teachers who have previously taken a multicultural education course put into practice multicultural teaching in a first grade afterschool program. Banks' five dimensions of multicultural education are used as the theoretical framework for analyzing past research on multicultural education courses and for…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Curriculum Implementation, After School Programs, Grade 1
Elkin, Mollie; Sullivan, Amanda; Bers, Marina Umaschi – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2014
This paper explores how robotics can be used as a new educational tool in a Montessori early education classroom. It presents a case study of one early educator's experience of designing and implementing a robotics curriculum integrated with a social science unit in her mixed-age classroom. This teacher had no prior experience using robotics in…
Descriptors: Robotics, Montessori Method, Case Studies, Curriculum Development
Roofe, Carmel G. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2014
The attainment of Education for All (EFA) goals is crucial to the productivity of any country. However attaining these goals cannot be realised unless due consideration is given to the inputs and processes that must be enacted to achieve such goals. In this article, the Revised Primary Curriculum (RPC) used at grades one to three in Jamaican…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Curriculum, Grade 1, Grade 2
Witte, Jeffrey H. – Online Submission, 2011
Over the last several decades, research has questioned the effectiveness of the D.A.R.E.[c] (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program. D.A.R.E.[c] has also experienced cuts based on budget restrictions and personnel reallocations within police agencies, as well as competing demands for classroom time. Although concerted efforts have been made to…
Descriptors: Drug Education, Elementary School Curriculum, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development
Squire, Michelle Suzette – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research study is a case study of the development of an African-centered school over a 20-year period. The study describes how the kindergarten-through-eighth-grade institution was established. Interview questions focused on: 1. Establishment of an African-centered institution 2. Challenges of setting up an African-centered institution 3.…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, African Culture, Kindergarten, Grade 1
Ainsworth, Mary Taylor; Ortlieb, Evan; Cheek, Earl H., Jr.; Pate, Roberta Simnacher; Fetters, Carol – Language and Education, 2012
A teacher's role was dramatically changed from that of an educator to that of a facilitator with the adoption of semi-scripted curriculums. This case study explores teachers' perception and implementation of a state's English Language Arts curriculum in first-grade classrooms. Four first-grade teachers from a large urban school district were…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Language Arts, Classrooms, Literacy Education
Goodman-Schanz, Blythe Annette – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore and describe the visual arts beliefs and practices of eight K-1 teachers in four schools and in two different school districts in a southern state. Using a phenomenological framework (Creswell, 2007; Leedy & Ormrod, 2005), the research revealed the teachers' understandings of beliefs and how…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Beliefs, Teacher Attitudes, Early Childhood Education
Wang, Dan – Chinese Education and Society, 2011
This article aims to explore the impact of the new curriculum reform launched in 2001 urban-rural achievement disparities. It documents a pilot study on teachers' experiences in teaching literacy to children in primary one in a poverty-stricken county in western China. Interviews with teachers in various types of schools indicate that the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Rural Schools, Literacy Education, Family Role
Li, Hui; Rao, Nirmala; Tse, Shek Kam – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2011
This longitudinal study examined the relationship between pedagogical continuity in literacy education and early literacy development by comparing Chinese children in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Stratified random sampling was used to select 24 preschool and Primary 1 classes in four communities catering to middle-class families in each city. The 24…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Literacy Education, Holistic Approach, Educational Change
Gibson, Susan E.; Brooks, Charmaine – Teacher Development, 2012
Preparing teachers to implement a new curriculum presents a significant but important challenge. While formal professional development programs can assist in this preparation, finding prescribed experiences that meet the needs of all teachers can be formidable and indeed may not always be the best option for promoting change in practice. Decisions…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change, Faculty Development
Naraian, Srikala – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2011
The successful participation of students with disabilities in a general education classroom is generally presumed to be contingent on the creation of classroom communities that can nurture the qualities of equity and care and where different forms of diversity are valued. However, there has been less scholarship that documents the production of…
Descriptors: Caring, Sociocultural Patterns, Multiple Disabilities, Ethnography
Silva, Janelle M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Using data from a nine month ethnographic study of a first grade public charter school classroom in central California, this paper examines how one teacher is using an alternative, artist-focused curriculum, to teach her first grade students about significant social identities (race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class and physical ableness) and…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Cultural Pluralism, Social Change, Sexuality
Haistings, Jeanine L. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Technology and mathematics. manipulatives have been brought together in a new format. This joining has resulted in virtual manipulatives that are available on the Internet for students. Virtual manipulatives have been defined as computer based renditions of common mathematics manipulatives and tools. Just as a physical object can be flipped,…
Descriptors: Numbers, Statistical Analysis, Grade 1, Arithmetic
Milligan, Julie Lamb – Understanding Our Gifted, 2008
Classroom teachers play an important role in the success of gifted programs. During the past two decades, researchers (Bigelow, 1993; Bransky, 1987; Milligan, 2001; Tomlinson, 2001) consistently reported more support from classroom teachers for gifted programming when the teachers had a greater understanding of giftedness. On the other hand, when…
Descriptors: Gifted, Identification, Teachers, Staff Development
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