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Mitsui Arai; Takuya Baba – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2023
This study aims to develop a conceptual framework regarding practitioner knowledge and describe how one mathematics teacher generates her practitioner knowledge based on the framework. The characteristic of this framework is a combination of static and dynamic aspects of knowledge based on the teacher's perception and interpretation. The research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Multiplication
Shakhnoza Kayumova; Akira Harper; Rachel Moniz-Stronach – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Multilingual youth, from nondominant communities, are often denied critical opportunities for engagement in robust sensemaking due to deficit-based perspectives and linguistic hierarchies. To advance equity, it is important to recognize all youth as epistemic agents and facilitate opportunities to take on intellectual positions. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Science Instruction, Multilingualism, Equal Education
Reenvisioning Writing Pedagogy and Learning Disabilities through a Black Girls' Literacies Framework
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
Bahador, Hamid; Mofrad, Marzieh Hatami – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2020
EFL learners often have problems to speak properly in English. As the purpose of teaching speaking is to improve the learners' oral production, language teaching should maximize language use in the classrooms (Haozhang, 1997), which is achieved through implementing proper teaching techniques to require learners to learn and practice the language…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Females, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation
Mark Okpanachi Akubo – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The underrepresentation of women in STEM more generally and in physics specifically has been well established (e.g., Hyater-Adams, Fracchiolla, Finkelstein, & Hinko, 2018; Johnson, Ong, Ko, Smith, & Hodari, (2017); Lock & Hazari, 2016), and the field remains challenged by the negative consequences of this underrepresentation. Women's…
Descriptors: Physics, Student Centered Learning, Active Learning, Undergraduate Students
Hajar, Anas – Language Learning Journal, 2018
This paper documents the identity negotiation and strategic language efforts of a female postgraduate learner of English from a rural Arab background. She needed to obtain a high score in the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) exam as a prerequisite to getting an unconditional offer from a UK university. The narrative inquiry reported…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Rural Areas, Graduate Students, English (Second Language)
Soleimani, Maryam; Modirkhamene, Sima; Sadeghi, Karim – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
Drawing upon Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory (SCT), this study aimed at investigating the effect of two writing modes, namely, peer-mediated/collaborative vs. individual writing on measures of fluency, accuracy, and complexity of female EFL learners' writing. Based on an in-house placement test and the First Certificate in English writing paper, a…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Cliff, Ken; Wright, Jan – Sport, Education and Society, 2010
We suggest that recent concerns about young people's excess body weight have generally been treated quite separately to longer standing concerns about young people (particularly, young women) and eating disorders. The few papers that have addressed this connection directly have focused on how practices motivated by the obesity discourse have had…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Physical Education, Sociocultural Patterns, Private Schools
Jeong, Heeok – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This discourse-oriented ethnographic case study, using constant comparison, critical discourse analysis (CDA) and cultural-historical-activity theory (CHAT) within a Foucauldian framework, investigates how the pedagogical practices of 2 teachers of English learners were (trans)formed over the course of 1.5 academic years, and how their…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Case Studies, Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods
Negueruela-Azarola, Eduardo – Language Awareness, 2011
This narrative interview study of a Spanish learner documents and explains apparent contradictions in a student's story when reporting on why she continues to take Spanish even when she does not like it or perform well in foreign language courses. A dialectical approach to human activity based on sociocultural theory is used to make sense of her…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation, Interviews
Kiliçkaya, Ferit, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
The 5th International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture has been hosted by Mehmet Akif Ersoy University (Burdur, Turkey), in cooperation with Çankaya University (Ankara, Turkey) and Süleyman Demirel University (Isparta, Turkey). Our main aim has been to provide a forum for discussion, to facilitate integration in these fields, and to…
Descriptors: Literature, Conferences (Gatherings), Figurative Language, Speeches

Moscovich, M. James – History and Social Science Teacher, 1982
Presents ideas for teaching about the roles of women in ancient Greek and Roman societies for undergraduate history and sociology classes. The discussion covers the roots of misogyny in Western culture, parallels between mythologies and sociocultural patterns, and the legal status of women in antiquity. (AM)
Descriptors: Ancient History, Females, Higher Education, History Instruction
Schwartz, Tammy A. – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2003
This study addresses urban Appalachian girls and identities as constructed within and outside of the written discourses of the institution known as school. Drawing on poststructuralist (Weedon, 1997) and sociocultural (Gee, 1996) perspectives of language, identities and discourses (Gee, 1996), and on the feminist philosopher Griffiths (1995), it…
Descriptors: Females, Urban Areas, Self Concept, Writing (Composition)

Black, Naomi; And Others – PS: Political Science and Politics, 1994
Asserts that increased attention to marginalized groups in college political science courses is long overdue. Introduces a series of six brief articles describing how to incorporate these groups into the curriculum. Includes articles on gender, race, and sexual orientation issues. (CFR)
Descriptors: Blacks, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development
Pollak, Susan – 1982
The medieval school came into existence after the fifth century to satisfy ecclesiastical demands for a minimum amount of literacy and scientific knowledge whereby young priests could learn to carry out priestly functions in the Church. During the course of the Middle Ages, the medieval school gradually changed its structure and function until the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Christianity, Comparative Education, Educational History