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Xu, Peng; Ritchie, Jenny – Early Childhood Folio, 2022
Children's citizenship in early childhood education and care is the root of democracy, equity, and sustainability. In Aotearoa New Zealand, "Te Whariki" has a strong aspiration for children as competent and active citizens. Early childhood settings are sites where children may have opportunities to act as powerful citizens. Employing…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Citizenship, Kindergarten
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Jang, Soo Bin – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2020
This paper examines how the initiation of a national-level curricular reform invites different educational ideas and how such ideas attain legitimacy through policy narratives that confer meanings about school knowledge, schooling, and the nation using the case of the South Korean national curriculum reform of 2015. By critically analysing…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, National Curriculum
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Wieselmann, Jeanna R.; Keratithamkul, Khomson; Dare, Emily A.; Ring-Whalen, Elizabeth A.; Roehrig, Gillian H. – Research in Science Education, 2021
Integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is becoming increasingly common in K-12 classrooms, and small group activities are ubiquitous to STEM instruction. This article includes both theoretical and practical descriptions of a microethnographic approach to critical multimodal discourse analysis that we used to…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Power Structure, Group Dynamics, STEM Education
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Nuñez, Idalia; Palmer, Deborah – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2017
This article presents a basic interpretive qualitative study that examined how two students, a dominant Spanish speaker (Joel) and a dominant English speaker (Carter) used languages during their microinteractions in pair work in a dual language kindergarten classroom. The purpose of this study was to understand the relationship between language…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, English, Discourse Analysis, Qualitative Research
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Wiebe, Chris; Nguyen, Ai-Khanh; Mattheis, Allison – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
Situated in an understanding of contemporary US education as heavily influenced by a neoliberal technocracy we conducted a Critical Discourse Analysis of the 2010 and 2016 National Education Technology (NETP) plans released by the US Department of Education. Our investigation was also guided by a cyber-archaeological excavation of digital…
Descriptors: Archaeology, Educational Technology, Discourse Analysis, Neoliberalism
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Orsati, Fernanda Tebexreni – Classroom Discourse, 2015
In this two-year ethnographic case study, I critically examine educators' relationships with students considered to present challenging behaviours in one classroom located in a predominantly White, middle-class school district. Focusing on the language and practices used by one special education teacher and three teaching assistants, I explore how…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Disabilities, Behavior Problems, Ethnography
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Jahng, Kyung Eun – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2013
This article examines the relevance of postcolonialism in early childhood education, with special reference to the kindergarten education system of South Korea. Most of the research on Korean kindergarten education has conceptualized it as preparing children for their later schooling and helping them learn the moral and social values most desired…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Social Values
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Orsati, Fernanda T.; Causton-Theoharis, Julie – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2013
Describing students with disabilities as presenting "challenging behavior" is common in US schools. The purpose of this paper is to reveal the discourse utilized by teachers in order to understand their beliefs and practices surrounding young students considered to present challenging behavior. This study examines teachers' language in…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Disabilities, Teacher Attitudes
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Cohen, Lynn E. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2008
Foucault's notion of "regimes of truth" (MacNaughton 2005, 30) provides an understanding of how some discourses operate and network together to reinforce a particular powerful view of the world. These can be in oral or written forms. Early childhood education practices are drawn on the discourse of a document developed by the National Association…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Educational Philosophy