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Dilemmatic Spaces: High-Stakes Testing and the Possibilities of Collaborative Knowledge Work to Generate Learning Innovations
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Singh, Parlo; Märtsin, Mariann; Glasswell, Kathryn – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
This paper examines collaborative researcher-practitioner knowledge work around assessment data in culturally diverse, low socio-economic school communities in Queensland, Australia. Specifically, the paper draws on interview accounts about the work of a cohort of school-based researchers who acted as mediators bridging knowledge flows between a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Stakes Tests, Educational Researchers, Student Evaluation
Indigenous Students in the Tertiary Education Sector
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Bandias, Susan; Fuller, Don; Larkin, Steven – Journal of International Education Research, 2014
Important recent objectives of indigenous education policy in Australia have been aimed at redressing indigenous economic and social disadvantage through increasing student retention, progression and completion rates in both compulsory and post-compulsory education. The two sectors of the tertiary education system, vocational education and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Indigenous Populations, Economically Disadvantaged
Making Healthy Minds Healthy Bodies: An Activity-Theoretical Analysis of the Development and Organizational Adaptation of a Medical Service-Learning Program
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Powell, Tamara J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Physician workforce shortages in California are projected to grow rapidly in the next ten years, particularly in inner-city and rural regions. In response to this anticipated need, the University of California's medical schools are increasing enrollment and working to implement and evaluate new programs and curricula to prepare graduates to work…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Service Learning, Outreach Programs, Health Education
"You Make Me Wanna Holler and Throw up Both My Hands!": Campus Culture, Black Misandric Microaggressions, and Racial Battle Fatigue
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Smith, William A.; Mustaffa, Jalil Bishop; Jones, Chantal M.; Curry, Tommy J.; Allen, Walter R. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2016
Black males are scarce on White campuses. Still, they experience hypervisibility and are targets of hypersurveillance. This study used focus groups and semi-structured interviews to examine the experiences of 36 Black male students attending seven "elite" historically White Research I institutions. Two themes emerged: (a) anti-Black male…
Descriptors: Campuses, School Culture, Males, African American Students
Grafting, Going to College and Working on Road: Youth Transitions and Cultures in an East London Neighbourhood
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Gunter, Anthony; Watt, Paul – Journal of Youth Studies, 2009
The local neighbourhood has an enduring significance for British urban, working-class youth in relation to their transitions, cultures and leisure practices. This paper examines these interrelated issues by drawing upon ethnographic research undertaken in "Manor", a deprived, multi-ethnic East London neighbourhood. It explores the…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Working Class, Subcultures, Leisure Time
"Why Are You Doing This?" Questions on Purpose, Structure, and Outcomes in Participatory Action Research Engaging Youth and Teacher Candidates
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Galletta, Anne; Jones, Vanessa – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2010
Our article is based on a study of our integration of social foundations coursework with filmmaking and participatory action research, bringing teacher candidates and middle and high school students together. The project was carried out in partnership between an urban university and two nearby public schools within a Midwestern city known for high…
Descriptors: Poverty, Urban Universities, Action Research, Nonprint Media