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Valora J. Unowsky – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The focus of this study was to examine the effective instructional practices, philosophies, values, and beliefs of highly effective reading teachers, as evidenced by their students' rate of reading growth over the course of one academic year across all demographic subgroups. Teacher instructional strategies, approaches to tier one and tier two…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Elementary School Students, Kindergarten
Isenström, Lisa – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2022
This article furthers pedagogical knowledge on educating children about their human rights, specifically in school contexts, with the aim of elucidating the features and the collateral learning of educative situations through which children are supported to grow as rights-holders. The data, obtained from fieldwork in three Year 1 classes in…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Classroom Communication, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Cadavid-Múnera, Isabel Cristina – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2022
This article reports the findings of a qualitative interpretive research study that explored the social representations children have about the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language in elementary schools in Medellín, Colombia. Sixty children in first, third, and fifth grades of public and private schools participated in the study.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Grade 3, Grade 5
Jackson, Jarvais; Collins, Saudah N. T.; Baines, Janice R.; Boutte, Gloria Swindler; Johnson, George Lee, Jr.; Folsom-Wright, Nichole – Social Studies, 2021
Africa is the cradle of civilization, yet its rich history and culture is undertaught--especially in elementary P-5 classrooms. In this article, we share Adinkra symbols from West Africa which can be used for interdisciplinary instruction and classroom management. We offer Adinkra symbols as an organizing theme for teaching in the spirit of not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Culture, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach
Alarcón, Jeannette D.; Marhatt, Pratigya; Price, Emily – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2017
The purpose of this lesson is to engage young students in thinking about the complexity of socio-historical symbols in the present day. After careful preparation, the authors decided to teach about the decision by the state legislature in July 2015 to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse grounds. Presenting the…
Descriptors: Current Events, Teaching Methods, History Instruction, Decision Making
Arar, Khalid; Massry-Herzalah, Asmahan – School Leadership & Management, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to exemplify a "grass-roots" change based on Dewey's experimental progressive education model employed in the "Bridge over the Valley" bilingual school, a Palestinian-Arab and Jewish school in Israel. In order to identify the progressive "approach" underlying this change, the…
Descriptors: Arabs, Jews, Intergroup Relations, Educational Theories
Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan; Silver, Rita – Language and Education, 2013
To better comprehend how educational reforms and classroom practice interconnect, we need to understand the epistemic environments created for learning, as well as the pedagogical activities and the modes of classroom discourse related to these activities. This article examines how a particular innovation in English literacy, Strategies for…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Classroom Techniques, Epistemology, Literacy Education
Souto-Manning, Mariana – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2009
In this article, I present the description of the learning and social action that unfolded through critical literacy events in my first grade classroom. Resulting from teacher action research, this critical conscientization process underscores how multicultural children's literature served as enabler of culturally responsive pedagogy. Through the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Culturally Relevant Education, Educational Needs, Action Research
Akrofi, Amma K.; Swafford, Jeanne; Janisch, Carole; Liu, Xiaoming; Durrington, Vance – Childhood Education, 2008
In this article, the authors begin with what they believe is an implicit endorsement of an integration orientation toward acculturation. Literature may be used to help students understand the implicit nature of culture. Inspired by such scholars as Clayton (1996, 2003) and based on a content analysis of 134 books, the authors identify and describe…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Acculturation, Content Analysis, Immigrants
Laboucan, Billy Joe, Ed.; Dion, Susan, Ed.; Sawers, Neil, Ed.; Scott, J. Marilyn, Ed. – Alberta Education, 2009
The underlying foundations for all elements of this "Cree Language and Culture 12-year Program Guide to Implementation (Kindergarten to Grade 3)" are Cree values--those viewpoints and ways of being that characterize the Cree way of life. They are as important today in educating students in the Cree language and culture as they have ever…
Descriptors: Canada Natives, Values, Program Guides, Kindergarten
Li, Guofang – Literacy Teaching and Learning, 2007
Based on the theoretical perspectives of socio-constructivism and language socialization, this study reports two Chinese Canadian first grader's experiences of language and literacy learning in and out of school in a unique sociocultural setting where they were "the mainstream." The article examines the students' reading and writing…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Play, Ethnography, Cultural Differences