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Direct linkKlimanova, Liudmila; Hellmich, Emily A. – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
Culture in the teaching and learning of foreign languages tends to be stereotypical and monolithic, marginalizing the diversity of local cultures and practices and resulting in a monocultural and monolingual bias. Expanding on the ACTFL Cultures and Comparisons Standards, the current article presents the MAPS model for Exploring Local Cultures…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cultural Awareness, Teaching Methods
Elliot, Enid; Krusekopf, Frances – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2017
The authors share a narrative of planning and implementing a Nature Kindergarten in the public school system in British Columbia, Canada. Inspired by similar programs in Northern Europe, the Nature Kindergarten became the first program of its kind in Western Canada. The importance of developing pedagogical principles, understanding local context…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Outdoor Education, Educational Opportunities, Teaching Methods
Moss, G.; Bradbury, A.; Braun, A.; Duncan, S.; Levy, R. – Institute of Education - London, 2021
The COVID pandemic has led to a prolonged period of educational disruption with few precedents from the recent past to guide recovery. The Institute of Education's project, "Learning Through Disruption," set out to explore the knowledge schools have acquired from working with children and families during the crisis. The authors found…
Descriptors: School Districts, COVID-19, Pandemics, Teaching Methods
Download full textLotz-Sisitka, Heila – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2008
Recent international policy literature on Education for Sustainable Development puts forward utopian concepts of sustainable development and transformed learning as objects for educational thinking and practice. This paper, drawing on three illustrative educational investigations with youth in a South African context, critically examines how we…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Constructivism (Learning), Racial Segregation, Democracy
Robinson, Clinton D. W. – Compare, 1999
Reviews the major features of participatory development, asking how far similar processes are applied in promoting the use of local languages. Argues that language development processes must figure into participatory approaches to develop multilingual environments and that attention to language must proceed along similar participatory lines. (CMK)
Descriptors: Empowerment, Higher Education, Language Acquisition, Languages
Webb, Chris – Journal of Outdoor Education, 1982
Discusses the history of Notting Dale (an overcrowded, working class area), housing redevelopment there, facilities/program of the Notting Dale Urban Study Centre (West London), study of processes (urban planning juxtaposed with reality), people's problems in a changing urban environment, and examples of local studies leading to action on issues…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Attitudes, Community Cooperation, Disadvantaged Environment
