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An Open Learning through Feminist Writing for Self-Discovery and Intellectual Development
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Srisermbhok, Amporn – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2016
This paper aims to demonstrate the impact of feminist writing as a new paradigm for education in the 21st Century to provoke awareness of gender inequity issues and to maintain justice and healthy living in society. It discusses the two selected works by prominent feminist authors: Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" and Amy Tan's…
Descriptors: Feminism, Novels, Gender Issues, Sex Fairness
The Future World Champions? Ideals for Upbringing Represented in Contemporary European Advertisements
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Gram, Malene – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2004
The general European discourse of childhood presents children as innocent and vulnerable, but within this discourse different images of "the perfect child" exist. In this article ideals for upbringing are studied as they are represented in French, German and Dutch printed advertisements for children's products. The sample consists of 290…
Descriptors: Children, Advertising, Intellectual Development, Parenting Styles
Blueprint for Black Studies and Multiculturalism.
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Marable, Manning – Black Scholar, 1992
Advocates a framework for African-American development and awareness in which African-American studies will play a decisive role in debate surrounding multiculturalism. Multiculturalism and African-American studies must be articulated within a general theory of educational democracy. African-American studies must also become a projection of what…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Studies, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development
Educational Implications of Developmental Transitions: Revisiting the 5- to 7-Year Shift.
Sameroff, Arnold; McDonough, Susan C. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1994
Understanding the nature of the 5- to 7-year shift is essential if educators are to help children adjust to elementary school. The timing and quality of this shift is influenced by child characteristics, home environment, cultural context, and previous group learning experience. Since child development depends on children's engagement in cultural…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Context Effect, Cultural Differences, Developmental Stages
Developing Higher-Order Thinking through an Intercultural Assignment: A Scholarship of Teaching Inquiry Project
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Harrigan, Anne; Vincenti, Virginia – College Teaching, 2004
The purpose of this scholarship of teaching research is to assess the effectiveness of a cross-cultural problem-solving assignment in two senior-level family and consumer sciences courses at the University of Wyoming. We focus on the development of selected cognitive and affective critical-thinking skills in undergraduates and their international…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Problem Solving
African American Studies: The Future of the Discipline.
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Asante, Molefi Kete – Black Scholar, 1992
Discusses the maintenance and future of African-American studies within the context of contemporary intellectual ideas. The institutionalization of African-American studies and the creation of the first doctoral program in African-American studies at Temple University in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) marked the flowering of the discipline. (SLD)
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Culture, Black History, Black Studies