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Koskela, Minja – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2022
This article explores how social class, "race," and their intersections manifest in Finnish popular music education (PME) through an exploration of popular music practices in one upper elementary music classroom where I worked as a teacher-researcher. By engaging with systems reflexivity, I illustrate how social class, racialization, and…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Music, Music Education, Democracy
Janetha Antoinette Edwards – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive case study was to explore how novice middle-class White female elementary school teachers' implement affective and instructional strategies in teaching in a culturally diverse public school district in a Southwestern state in the United States. The theoretical foundation was Campinha-Bacote Cultural…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, White Teachers, Middle Class, Beginning Teachers
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Szech, Laura – School Community Journal, 2021
The purpose of this study was to understand how teachers reproduce and eventually resist middle-class, White, dominant narratives of family involvement so they can better engage with all students and families. This study occurred in an elementary school setting during a semester-long afterschool professional development course with nine elementary…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Cultural Background, Teacher Student Relationship, Elementary School Students
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Muthivhi, Azwihangwisi E.; Kriger, Samantha – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2019
Background: This article reported on the developmental consequences of music instruction in Foundation Phase level of South African school context, specifically in relation to learners' learning and acquisition of early reading abilities. Against the background of the recent upsurge in research interest on the subject of conceptual and skills…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Transfer of Training, Music Education, Concept Formation
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Wynter-Hoyte, Kamania; Braden, Eliza Gabrielle; Rodriguez, Sanjuana; Thornton, Natasha – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2019
This article highlights four qualitative studies that examine young diverse populations (i.e. middle-class African-American learners, Latinx immigrant children, emergent bilingual writers, and teachers of low-socioeconomic African-American learners) using culturally relevant and culturally sustaining pedagogies as our theoretical lens. The…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods, Middle Class, African American Students
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Sayer, Peter – AILA Review, 2019
There has been a rapid global expansion of English instruction in the early grades in public school curricula. Particularly in so-called developing countries, the increase of and its shift from exclusively private to public education is linked to the idea that acquiring English promotes personal, social, and economic development. The author takes…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Sriprakash, Arathi; Proctor, Helen; Hu, Betty – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2016
This article explores parents' use of private tutoring services for their primary school children in Sydney, Australia's largest city. Using Bernstein's theories of invisible and visible pedagogies, we look, through the eyes of a small group of middle-class Chinese-background interviewees, at the tensions between certain pedagogic forms associated…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Elementary School Students, Advantaged, Foreign Countries
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Somel, Rahsan Nazli; Nohl, Arnd-Michael – Comparative Education, 2015
Curriculum reforms provide a unique opportunity to investigate how in times of social change education is not only influenced by, but also itself a driver of, competition and inequality. This article sheds light on a specific instance of how macro-societal patterns in education intermingle in twenty-first century Turkey by inquiring into a major…
Descriptors: Social Change, Competition, Urban Areas, Neighborhoods
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Hempel-Jorgensen, Amelia – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2009
This paper examines the effect of school social class composition on pupil learner identities in British primary schools. In the current British education system, high-stakes testing has a pervasive effect on the pedagogical relationship between teachers and pupils. The data in this paper, from ethnographic research in a working-class school and a…
Descriptors: Discipline, Testing, Academic Achievement, Ethnography
Shapiro, Phyllis P.; Shapiro, Bernard J. – 1972
The effect of teaching poetry writing on (1) attitudes toward literature, and (2) the ability to write prose was studied in four fourth-grade classes of a metropolitan elementary school (42 boys and 40 girls) from working-class backgrounds. The children were randomly assigned, two to the experimental and two to the control group. A program for…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, English Instruction, Language Arts, Literature Appreciation
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Howe, Nina; Brody, Marie-Helene; Recchia, Holly – Infant and Child Development, 2006
Teaching styles were investigated in 28 middle-class sibling dyads (older sibling M age = 8.2 yrs; younger sibling M age = 5.11 yrs) using two sets of block design tasks (five easy; five hard). Older siblings employed a greater number of strategies (i.e. physical demonstrations, scaffolding, corrective feedback) in the hard than in the easy tasks,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Siblings, Teaching Styles, Children
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Hastie, Peter A.; Curtner-Smith, Matthew D. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2006
Background: Sport Education (SE) and Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) are two curriculum models that were developed to help students participate in fair and equitable ways and challenge their thinking beyond the replication of techniques and skills. Given that the general aim of both models is to employ more democratic pedagogies and…
Descriptors: Research Design, Physical Education, Middle Class, Tests
Kulig, Barbara; O'Brien, Mary Lou – 1994
This paper describes an agenda for expanding interest and motivation among sixth-grade foreign language students in a middle-class suburban community located in northeastern Illinois. The problem was originally noted by the teaching staff/researchers who found students unable to focus and maintain attention during class. Administration of surveys…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Instructional Innovation
Champagne, David W.; Goldman, Richard M. – 1970
One way that educationally disadvantaged children can be helped to succeed more often in schools is to ask their parents to join in an educational partnership with teachers for the benefit of their children. The acquisition of teaching skills allows the parents to focus their efforts. The use of positive verbal reinforcement was selected as the…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students, Home Study, Lower Class Parents
Leacock, Eleanor Burke – 1969
This book reports a study of learning and socialization in typically urban schools characterized by didactic teaching, minimal exploration and initiation by the children, little probing for personal or intellectual meaning, and strong adherence to established curriculum and external symbols of success. The child population includes low-income…
Descriptors: Black Students, Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research