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Gilmore, Perry, Ed.; Glatthorn, Allan A., Ed. – 1982
The following articles on ethnography and education are presented: (1) "A Retrospective Discussion of the State of the Art in Ethnography in Education," by P. Gilmore and D. M. Smith; (2) "Ethnography in Education: Defining the Essentials," by S. B. Heath; (3) "The Structure of Classroom Events and Their Consequences for Student Performance," by…
Descriptors: Children, Classroom Research, Cultural Context, Educational Anthropology
Association of American Universities, Washington, DC. – 1982
A 1981 Wingspread conference on the implications of the new scholarship on women for the traditional goals and assumptions of liberal education also addresses possibilities and imperatives for curricular and institutional change. After an introduction by Anne Fuller, papers by three women's studies scholars are presented. "Feminist…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Females
Mackey, William F., Ed.; Verdoodt, Albert, Ed. – 1975
The Ljubljana seminar, whose background and working papers are presented in this volume, was an outcome of the United Nations' consideration of the problems of ethnic and linguistic minorities. The twenty-five papers cover topics such as the study of multinational societies; the protection of minorities and minority rights in Yugoslavia,…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism
Cross, Robert D.; Bennett, Clifford T. – 1987
This document reports on a summer institute for 20 secondary school history teachers from the central Virginia public school community. Emphasis at the institute was on the fact that historically, as well as morally, all people are important. This idea is the basis for the "new social history" that tends to start with everyday experience. Because…
Descriptors: Course Content, Cultural Context, Curriculum Development, Faculty Development
Yoshida, Kensaku; And Others – 1996
Conference papers on second language classrooms and culture are presented, including: "Intercultural Communication as Interpersonal Communication" (Kensaku Yoshida); "Classroom Cultures: East Meets West" (Dominic Cogan); "Laying Down the Law: Teachers' Use of Rules" (Gregory Bornmann); "Student Behavior: Whose…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style
Bouton, Lawrence F., Ed.; Kachru, Yamuna, Ed. – 1993
The selection of papers from the 6th Annual International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning (Urbana, Illinois, April 1992) include: "Discourse Markers Across Language" (Bruce Fraser); "Conjunction and Causality: Pragmatics and the Lexicon" (Yael Ziv); "Situated Discourse: The Sociocultural Context of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context