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Quer, Josep – Sign Language Studies, 2012
Despite being minority languages like many others, sign languages have traditionally remained absent from the agendas of policy makers and language planning and policies. In the past two decades, though, this situation has started to change at different paces and to different degrees in several countries. In this article, the author describes the…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Educational Policy
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Sales, Auxiliadora; Traver, Joan A.; Garcia, Rafaela – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
Teacher professional development is a key factor for transforming professional and school culture. This article describes a case study undertaken in a Spanish school during the 2007-2008 academic year. Our aim is to explain how action research methodology was applied to encourage professional and school culture towards an intercultural and…
Descriptors: School Culture, Action Research, Educational Change, Professional Development
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Pozuelos, Francisco; Trave Gonzalez, Gabriel; Canal de Leon, Pedro – Teaching Education, 2010
This paper describes a study into the implementation within two Spanish primary schools of an inquiry-based curricular project entitled "Exploring Our World" (ages 6-12). Taking the form of two case studies, it offers a description of the two participating schools and the development of the project within them. Particular attention is…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Active Learning, Inquiry