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Mandy Dunphy – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explores the dynamics of a formal classroom and an informal nature-based learning environment, focusing on their impact on student subjectification and knowledge authority. The study, conducted with a cohort of 27 fifth-grade students and their teacher, employs a comparative case study methodology to analyze how teaching…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Informal Education
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Shelton, Stephanie Anne; Guy, Kelsey H.; Jones, April M. – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to consider the ways that students are shaped by and shape community and critical literacy, along with the ways that community affords student empowerment in an English class during a US high school summer enrichment program. Design/methodology/approach: The qualitative methodological approach is a narrative-based…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Case Studies, High School Students, Summer Programs
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Abril-Gonzalez, Paty – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2020
In this case study, the author showcases a Mexican teen's "testimonios," crossing borders through poetry and art. The author grounds this work within Anzaldúa's "nepantla" (in-between space) and "nepantlera" border artist notions and draws from Sepúlveda's pedagogy of "acompañamiento" (accompaniment). During…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Empathy, Personal Narratives, Teaching Methods
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Yol, Özge; Yoon, Bogum – TESOL Journal, 2020
Critical practices for promoting English language learners' global and multicultural perspectives become more important in this global and interconnected world operating under systems of power, ideology, and hegemony. Grounded in the theoretical framework of critical global literacies and its explicit connection to pedagogy, the purposes of this…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hill, Jennifer; Healey, Ruth L.; West, Harry; Déry, Chantal – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2021
Despite emotion being recognized as fundamental to learning, the affective aspects of learning have often been side-lined in higher education. In the context of rising student wellbeing challenges, exploring ways of supporting students and their emotions in learning is increasingly significant. Pedagogic partnerships have the potential to help…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Well Being, Higher Education, Case Studies
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Khan, Alya; Gabriel, John – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2018
The article explores the landscape in higher education in which old binary divisions are officially denied yet have been reinvigorated through mix of conservative and neo-liberal policies. Efforts to resist such pressures can happen at different levels, including, in this case, module design and classroom practice. The rationale for such…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Critical Theory, Resistance (Psychology), Equal Education
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DeMink-Carthew, Jessica – Middle Grades Review, 2018
Although democratic education has long been considered a cornerstone of the developmentally responsive middle school model, current neoliberal priorities in education pose a particular threat to the democratic purpose of education. Due to their emphasis on student voice and civic engagement, youth social action projects present one opportunity to…
Descriptors: Social Action, Democracy, Neoliberalism, Middle School Students
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Rodriguez, Shelly; Smith, Shaunna; Harron, Jason – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2021
Making is an iterative process of designing, building, tinkering, and problem-solving, resulting in the creation of personally meaningful artifacts. Fueled by recent developments in affordable, safe, and easy to use digital fabrication technologies, making has been embraced by educators the world over. While educational scholarship is developing…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Design, Mathematics Instruction, Science Instruction
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Jiang, Lianjiang; Yang, Miaoyan; Yu, Shulin – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2020
Although it has been well noted in TESOL that ethnic minority students often experience difficulties in mainstream English classrooms, whether and how such students can be empowered in their English learning remains underexplored. This article reports on a longitudinal case study of a Chinese ethnic minority student's participation in a digital…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Whitney, Erin Hope – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2019
Much of the special education research on writing has focused on skill acquisition and remediation. However, a significant problem with this approach is that it does not account for the sociocultural nature of writing or the importance of culturally sustaining pedagogies in writing instruction. In this article, the author uses practitioner…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Special Education, Culturally Relevant Education, Writing Instruction
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Zou, Tracy X. P.; Yu, Janet – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Meaningful intercultural interactions are important to the achievement of today's educational goals, global citizenship and intercultural competence in particular. However, understanding of intercultural interactions between local and international students in classroom settings remains limited. There are few studies that simultaneously examine…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Foreign Students, Cultural Differences, Case Studies
Rooney, Maeve – Online Submission, 2020
The purpose of this study was to determine how trauma-informed approaches in an urban elementary school art room can foster empowerment in students who have been exposed to trauma and have developed Emotional and/or Behavioral Disorders. I implemented a pedagogy focused on promoting empowerment through art making, then collected data on the…
Descriptors: Trauma, Art Education, Urban Schools, Elementary School Students
Gross, Trudy Ruth – ProQuest LLC, 2017
By participating within the educational setting in making decisions about their lives that reach beyond choice-making, students with disabilities who acquire the skills of self-determination may express interests and goals through their own authentic voice. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to describe the experiences and…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Student Participation, Individualized Education Programs, High School Students
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Sheri Cooke – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2018
The purpose of this study was to describe the impact of a flexible classroom environment, including the teacher and student relationship, and its role in fostering creativity in middle school students. The case study design included gathering data through interviews and observations. It was determined that democratic, workshop-based classrooms are…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creativity, Teacher Student Relationship, Middle School Students
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Billie Streufert – NACADA Review: Academic Advising Praxis and Perspectives, 2019
Given a rapidly changing labor market, advisors use parallel planning and alternative advising to teach students adaptability. Whereas parallel planning proactively prepares students for future transitions through considering multiple pathways, alternative advising occurs after students fail to make degree progress or secure admission and,…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Academic Advising, Nontraditional Education, Adjustment (to Environment)
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