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Dinorah-Marie Hudson – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2024
This article presents an analysis of environmental science curriculum materials to interrogate and reveal settler moves to innocence (Tuck & Yang, 2012) by analyzing the language used to describe concepts and events that invisiblize Indigenous knowledge and hide settler colonial logics. Using Decolonization is not a metaphor (Tuck & Yang,…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Curriculum, Science Education, Instructional Materials
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McCardle, Todd – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This research presentation seeks to illustrate how tracking produces within-school segregation, which, in turn, shapes the future aspirations of students. Scholars have shown that while schools have become more racially integrated over the years, another sociological phenomenon has occurred: within-school segregation as brought on by tracking.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Track System (Education), Academic Education, High School Students
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Ryter, Di – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
World history has become increasingly important and often a required course for students in the United States. This case study provided detailed descriptions of International Baccalaureate History students' display of historical understandings, academic humility, and global citizenship. Findings of this study have implications for pedagogical and…
Descriptors: World History, Case Studies, Advanced Placement Programs, Global Approach
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Ewing, Maureen; Jagesic, Sanja; Wyatt, Jeffrey Nagle – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Research shows that students who double major have higher earnings and are more satisfied with their educational experience in college than those who graduate with a single major. In this study, we examine the extent to which a student's experience with academic acceleration programs in high school, specifically successful participation in the…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Advanced Placement Programs, Scores, Student Motivation
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Donnelly, Dermot Francis – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
There are few examples of NGSS specific projects at the high school level, particularly those linking chemistry and engineering practices. Further, there are few studies that provide concrete examples of how such projects can support students' submicrorepresentations (SMRs). This study reports on the implementation of an NGSS-aligned…
Descriptors: High School Students, Disproportionate Representation, Chemistry, Science Instruction
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Bunnell, Tristan; Fertig, Michael; James, Christopher R. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
In this paper, we use institutionalisation theory to analyse the legitimacy of schools identifying themselves or being identified by others as 'international'; identify aspects of institutionalisation theory that could be developed; and argue that an institutionalisation perspective should be more central in educational organisation theory.…
Descriptors: International Schools, Teacher Role, Personality Traits, Professionalism