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Direct linkKrishanu Maiti, Editor – Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This book offers Posthumanist readings of animal-centric literary and cultural texts. The contributors put the precepts and premises of humanism into question by seriously considering the animal presence in texts. The essays collected here focus primarily on literary and cultural texts from varied theoretically informed interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Humanism, Animals, Literary Criticism, Literary Devices
Janice B. Fournillier – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
This case study explores the exigencies of a 'native ethnographer' who chose to use a Euro western frame in a study of learning-teaching practices in her country's Carnival mas' camps. I am a native Trinidadian and former educator in the formal education system who used mas'-making practices of the Pre-Lenten Carnival festival as the unit of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Anthropology, Non Western Civilization
Nasir, Na'ilah Suad, Ed.; Lee, Carol D., Ed.; Pea, Roy, Ed.; de Royston, Maxine McKinney, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020
Edited by a diverse group of expert collaborators, the "Handbook of the Cultural Foundations of Learning" is a landmark volume that brings together cutting-edge research examining learning as entailing inherently cultural processes. Conceptualizing culture as both a set of social practices and connected to learner identities, the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Cultural Background, Cultural Education, Cultural Influences
Sansom, Adrienne N. – Peter Lang New York, 2011
In the pedagogical landscape of early childhood, physical movement is central to the holistic development of young children. Yet, movement-related experiences and other bodily activities such as play and dance often present contradictions and conundrums for early childhood educators. As a mode of learning, movement has endured a questionable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dance, Teacher Education Programs, Early Childhood Education
Orgeron, Devin, Ed.; Orgeron, Marsha, Ed.; Streible, Dan, Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2011
A vastly influential form of film-making seen by millions of people, educational films provide a catalog of twentieth century preoccupations and values. As a medium of instruction and guidance, they held a powerful cultural position, producing knowledge both inside and outside the classroom. This is the first collection of essays to address this…
Descriptors: Instructional Films, Cultural Activities, Case Studies, United States History
Porfilio, Brad J., Ed.; Viola, Michael J., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
Illuminating hip-hop as an important cultural practice and a global social movement, this collaborative project highlights the emancipatory messages and cultural work generated by the organic intellectuals of global hip-hop. Contributors describe the social realities--globalization, migration, poverty, criminalization, and racism--youth are…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Critical Theory, Multicultural Education, Cultural Activities
Brown, Ruth Nicole, Ed.; Kwakye, Chamara Jewel, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
"Wish To Live: The Hip-hop Feminism Pedagogy Reader" moves beyond the traditional understanding of the four elements of hip-hop culture--rapping, breakdancing, graffiti art, and deejaying--to articulate how hip-hop feminist scholarship can inform educational practices and spark, transform, encourage, and sustain local and global youth…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Freedom, Intimacy, Autobiographies
Ancona, George – 1993
This children's book describes how Pablo, a young Mexican boy, and his family celebrate the Day of the Dead (El Dia de Los Muertos). This holiday takes place on the first and second day of November and honors relatives and friends who have died. The holiday celebrates their spiritual return to Earth to share a special feast with the living, and…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cultural Activities, Hispanic American Culture, Mexican Americans
Swortzell, Lowell, Ed. – 1997
The 21 plays in this international anthology for young people range through the classic, modern, and contemporary periods. Several of the plays are translations from other languages, and all begin with an explanatory introduction and contain basic stage directions. The anthology contains plays by Moliere, August Strindberg, Gertrude Stein,…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Cultural Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Download full textWeikart, Phyllis S. – 1997
This book is intended for all folk dancers and teachers of folk dance who wish to have a library of beginning and intermediate folk dance. Rhythmic box notations and teaching suggestions accompany all of the beginning and intermediate folk dances in the book. Many choreographies have been added to give beginning dancers more experience with basic…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Cultural Activities, Cultural Education, Dance Education
Zurbrugg, Nicholas – 1993
Hypothesizing that the tendency to define postmodern culture negatively derives from overliteral and undercritical responses to European theorists, this book of essays identifies the wide parameters of postmodernism. The book demonstrates that the literary and artistic temper of the postmodern condition in Europe and America cannot adequately be…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Art, Cultural Activities, Cultural Context
Mora, Pat; Berg, Charles Ramirez – 1995
This bilingual (English and Spanish) illustrated children's book relates the story of Carlos, a young boy who lives with his aunt Nina and dog Chico in the small Mexican town of San Bernardo. Nina and Carlos are poor, but their house is full of love. Carlos is excited because he is getting ready to attend the first night of "las…
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Literature, Cultural Activities, Fiction
Marks, Diana F. – 1998
With this ready-reference and resource, educators can make every day a holiday for their students--from January 1 to December 31. This book, for grades K-12, is organized chronologically and lists holidays and multicultural events from around the world for every day of the year--historic happenings, birthdays, famous firsts, inventions, and other…
Descriptors: Cultural Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Holidays, Information Sources
White, Virginia P. – 1980
Support for work in the arts is examined, noting the specific ways of obtaining this support from both the public and private sectors. The major sources of information on grants and grantsmanship are listed, including libraries and their resources, professional associations, workshops, institutes, subscription information services, news media,…
Descriptors: Artists, Cultural Activities, Cultural Enrichment, Financial Support
Library of Congress, Washington, DC. – 1993
The Music Division of the Library of Congress houses a collection that numbers close to eight million items including the classified music and book collections; music and literary manuscripts; microforms; and copyright deposits. This guide shows the highlights of the collection, as well as its mission. The Library of Congress embraces the complete…
Descriptors: Archives, Cultural Activities, Dance, Folk Culture
