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Moving toward an Empowering Setting in a First Grade Classroom Serving Primarily Working Class and Working Poor Latina/o Children: An Exploratory Analysis
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Silva, Janelle M.; Langhout, Regina Day – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2016
Empowering settings are important places for people to develop leadership skills in order to enact social change. Yet, due to socio-cultural constructions of childhood in the US, especially constructions around working class and working poor children of Color, they are often not seen as capable or competent change agents, or in need of being in…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Social Influences, Cultural Influences, Working Class
Multigenerational Learning for Expanding the Educational Involvement of Bilinguals Experiencing Academic Difficulties
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Martínez-Álvarez, Patricia – Curriculum Inquiry, 2017
Focusing on two bilingual children experiencing learning difficulties, I explore the scientific representations these students generate in an afterschool programme where they have opportunities to exercise agency. In the programme, children use a digital camera to document science in their lives and engage in conversations about the products they…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Learning Problems, After School Programs
Positive Behavior Support for a Child with Inattentive Behavior in a Japanese Regular Classroom
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Baba, Chiharu; Tanaka-Matsumi, Junko – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2011
Nondisruptive problem behaviors exist to a large extent in group-oriented Japanese regular classrooms. However, many children remain untreated. We implemented an antecedent-based functional behavioral assessment (FBA) and developed a behavioral support program for a first-grade boy who exhibited inattentive behavior in a Japanese regular…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Behavior Problems, Foreign Countries
Cultivating Agents of Change in Children
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Silva, Janelle M.; Langhout, Regina Day – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2011
This ethnographic study examines how one first grade teacher uses an alternative, artist-focused curriculum to develop a critical consciousness in her students to work toward social change. A framework incorporating critical multicultural education and Lewin's theory of small groups is applied to assess how the use of a multicultural curriculum…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Ethnography
Child-Friendly School Initiative in Jordan: A Sharing Experience
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Weshah, Hani A.; Al-Faori, Oraib; Sakal, Reham M. – College Student Journal, 2012
The purpose of this research was to report on a Child-Friendly School (CFS) initiative pilot project in Jordan, which aims at initiating the creation of CFS and to raise stakeholders' awareness of the importance of this project in promoting and implementing Child Rights Conviction (CRC) in Jordan. The study was conducted by a joint team selected…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Pilot Projects, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
The Literacy Instructional Leader: Perceptions of the Importance of Areas, Responsibility, and Use of Literacy Knowledge Elementary Principals Need to Lead an Effective Literacy Program
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Thomas, Barbara Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to discover and compare perceptions of three different groups of Indiana elementary educators concerning the importance of areas of the principal's literacy knowledge base, as well as responsibility for and use of this knowledge by principals to adequately support effective research-based literacy instruction. The…
Descriptors: State Standards, Change Agents, Specialists, Literacy