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Learning from Tina: A Case Study with a Selective Speaker
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Rosheim, Kay – Language Awareness, 2022
The current study is a two-year case study focusing on an upper-elementary girl who had been diagnosed with selective mutism in 1st grade. While multiple theoretical frameworks have been used to explain selective mutism, the current study borrowed the frameworks of critical sociocultural theory, a social semiotic theory of multimodality, and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Females, Psychosomatic Disorders, Communication Problems
Gender-Based Violence in Primary Schools: Kenya. Echidna Global Scholar Alumni Brief Series
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Otieno, Mary – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2020
School-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) is one of the worst manifestations of gender discrimination and violates a wide range of children's rights. Education is critical in empowering and transforming the lives of young people, especially girls, yet widespread gender-based violence (GBV) in and around schools seriously undermines the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Gender Discrimination, Childrens Rights
Employing a Structured Interface to Advance Primary Students' Communicative Competence in a Text-Based Computer Mediated Environment
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Chiu, Chiung-Hui; Wu, Chiu-Yi; Hsieh, Sheng-Jieh; Cheng, Hsiao-Wei; Huang, Chung-Kai – Computers & Education, 2013
This study investigated whether a structured communication interface fosters primary students' communicative competence in a synchronous typewritten computer-mediated collaborative learning environment. The structured interface provided a set of predetermined utterance patterns for elementary students to use or imitate to develop communicative…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Elementary School Students, Concept Mapping, Communicative Competence (Languages)
A Descriptive Study of the Factors Influencing the Degree to Which Fourth-, Fifth-, and Sixth-Grade Virtual Education Students Perceive a Sense of Virtual Community
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Gerth, Dana A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Review of literature revealed a shortage of research describing the development of K-12 virtual communities and the absence of a tool to measure sense of virtual community in K-12 virtual education students. The purpose of this descriptive, quantitative study was to examine the perception of a sense of virtual community from the perspective of…
Descriptors: Simulated Environment, Educational Technology, Statistical Analysis, Student Attitudes
The Extent and Nature of Bullying in a Christian School
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Hazeltine, Brian – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Bullying is a problem that has been studied in schools worldwide, but there is little research on bullying within Christian schools, a dearth which may stem from the assumption that Christian schools teach character traits that are inimical to bullying. Yet understanding the extent and nature of bullying in Christian schools may lead to a better…
Descriptors: Bullying, Christianity, Religious Education, Peer Relationship
Using Blended Learning to Facilitate the Mathematical thought Processes of Primary School Learners in a Computer Laboratory: A Case Study in Calculating Simple Areas
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Naidoo, N.; Naidoo, R. – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2007
Primary school learners' first encounters with mathematics in a traditional learning environment often create lifelong "math phobia."(Papert 1980) The situation in a country emerging from an oppressive education system designed to educationally disempower the majority of the population is much worse. The typical scenario in a previously…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Conventional Instruction, Mathematics Instruction