NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 4 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Wallner, Lars; Eriksson Barajas, Katarina – Classroom Discourse, 2023
The Swedish gender-neutral pronoun (GNP) "hen" has been in popular use since its (re)introduction to the public in 2012. Earlier research, analysing newspapers, academic papers and blogs, shows two uses of "hen": when gender is unknown and when gender is irrelevant. However, there is a lack of studies of verbal, situated, uses…
Descriptors: Swedish, Classroom Communication, Form Classes (Languages), Language Usage
van Oers, Bert, Ed.; Wardekker, Wim, Ed.; Elbers, Ed, Ed.; van der Veer, Rene, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2010
Learning is a changing phenomenon, depending on the advances in theory and research. This book presents a relatively new approach to learning, based on meaningful human activities in cultural practices and in collaboration with others. It draws extensively from the ideas of Lev Vygotsky and his recent followers. The book presents ideas that…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Play, Informal Education, Distance Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Martinez-Roldan, Carmen M. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2005
This article presents a case study of young bilingual students' discussions of literature in a second-grade Spanish/English bilingual classroom in the US. Sociocultural, critical, and Chicana feminist perspectives informed an analysis of the ways the children worked at understanding, marking, and resisting gender boundaries. This critical…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Bilingual Students, Picture Books, Bilingual Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Johnson, Julia R.; Bhatt, Archana J. – Communication Education, 2003
Challenging the Cartesian dualisms that essentialize difference, this essay offers strategies for building transracial, feminist alliances through pedagogy. The authors argue that resistive classroom spaces should be created in which students and teachers challenge the discourses of domination that structure our understandings of identity and…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Role of Education, Disadvantaged, Power Structure