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Troubling Messages: Agency and Learning in the Early Schooling Experiences of Children of Latina/o Immigrants
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Adair, Jennifer Keys; Colegrove, Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki; McManus, Molly – Teachers College Record, 2018
Background/Context: Early childhood education in the United States is currently suspended between the belief that young children learn through dynamic experiences in which they are able to create and experiment, and the belief that young children's emerging literacy and math skills require formal instruction and assessments to ensure future…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Early Childhood Education, Immigrants, Primary Education
How Do New Critical Pedagogies Develop? Public Education, Social Change, and Landless Workers in Brazil
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Tarlau, Rebecca – Teachers College Record, 2015
Background: Over the past 30 years, the Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement (MST), one of the largest social movements in Latin America, has developed a series of pedagogical practices for public schools that support the movement's struggle for agrarian reform in the Brazilian countryside. The MST's educational initiatives can be viewed in terms…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agricultural Laborers, Activism, Teaching Methods
How International Field Experiences Promote Cross-Cultural Awareness in Preservice Teachers through Experiential Learning: Findings from a Six-Year Collective Case Study
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Malewski, Erik; Sharma, Suniti; Phillion, JoAnn – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background/Context: The article examines how international field experiences promote cross-cultural awareness in U.S. American preservice teachers through experiential learning. The findings presented here are based on a 6-year study of a short-term study abroad program in Honduras that included an international field experience component and took…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Mixed Methods Research, Cultural Pluralism
The Dilemma of Cultural Responsiveness and Professionalization: Listening Closer to Immigrant Teachers Who Teach Children of Recent Immigrants
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Adair, Jennifer Keys; Tobin, Joseph; Arzubiaga, Angela E. – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background/Context: Many scholars in the fields of teacher education, multicultural education, and bilingual education have argued that children of recent immigrants are best served in classrooms that have teachers who understand the cultural background and the home language of their students. Culturally knowledgeable and responsive teachers are…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Bilingual Education, Cultural Background, Ethnography
"Intermediate Theory" Building: Integrating Multiple Teacher and Researcher Perspectives through In-Depth Video Analysis of Pedagogic Strategies
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Hennessy, Sara; Deaney, Rosemary – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background/Context: This work draws on a "participatory" approach to research collaboration that respects the teacher's "voice" in building on and extending the interactive "colearning" agreements between researchers and practitioners that work toward improving practice. Both parties in these agreements act as agents…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Focus Groups, Video Technology
On Becoming an Educated Person: Salvadoran Adult Learners' Cultural Model of Educacion/Education
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Prins, Esther – Teachers College Record, 2011
Background/Context: In contrast to cultural constructs that equate education with cognitive development and formal schooling, the Latin American cultural model of educacion encompasses academic knowledge and social competence. Prior scholarship has mainly investigated parental notions of educacion vis-a-vis childrearing and schooling, primarily…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Adult Education, Adult Students, Rural Areas
The Persistence of Presentism
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Hargreaves, Andy; Shirley, Dennis – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background/Context: This study draws on the voluminous research on teachers' workplace orientations and especially on Dan Lortie's documentation of conservatism, individualism, and presentism among teachers. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: This study investigated a school reform network of over 300 secondary schools entitled…
Descriptors: Individualism, Political Attitudes, Focus Groups, Program Effectiveness