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Brown, Cecilie Waallann; Alford, Jennifer – Intercultural Communication Education, 2023
This article provides a theoretical exploration of the connections between critical literacy and symbolic competence with some pedagogical examples from an empirical study. More specifically, we argue that critical literacy can be utilised as an approach to develop symbolic competence, and, by extension, encourage intercultural learning. Our…
Descriptors: Cultural Literacy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Correlation
Zorba, Mehmet Galip – Online Submission, 2020
This study aimed to investigate what cultural meanings English language learners (ELLs) attributed to the selected digital photographs and how they interpreted these photographs at the intersection of 'my culture' and 'other culture' dichotomy. This qualitative study was carried out during the fall term of 2020-2021 at a state university in…
Descriptors: Photography, Social Media, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
Rolinska, Ania – Research-publishing.net, 2015
This case study reports on the Digital English project, an experimental course in academic writing piloted with international students on a year-long pre-sessional programme. Inspired by Ulmer's (2003) "Mystory" project and Gauntlett's (2007) "Lego" research, the course concerns itself with the students' exploration of self at…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Academic Discourse, Writing Instruction, Foreign Students
Downey, Greg; Gray, Tonia – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
Web 2.0 technologies create opportunities for distance learning with particular promise for students while they are on international exchange. The current generation of students departing for study abroad is electronically literate or "digital natives", who have thoroughly integrated internet and communication technologies into their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Web 2.0 Technologies, Electronic Publishing
Hartnell-Young, Elizabeth; Vetere, Frank – Curriculum Journal, 2008
This article explores a notion of "personalising learning" which puts the learner at the centre, supported by mobile technology and teacher mediation. It reports a small study in the Northern Territory of Australia, with indigenous students who were given mobile camera phones to capture aspects of their everyday lives and bring them into…
Descriptors: Photography, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship
Dowse, Ros – Adult Learning, 2004
Developing visuals for a low-literate population is a complex process which must take education, visual literacy, culture, and way of life into account. This article describes cultural barriers to some South Africans' understanding of common pictures used to relate instructions for taking medication, and discusses tactics for modifying and…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Patients, Drug Use, Cultural Differences
Mor, Walkyria Monte – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2006
This paper is a report of a research project on critical multiliteracies and multimodality in Brazilian education. In the context of a growing concern for the construction of images in contemporary society, the paper discusses the interrelations between image, language and interpretation. The specific object of the investigation described below is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Literacy Education, Films
Scarr, Margaret, Ed.; Varro, Tim, Ed. – BCATA Journal for Art Teachers, 1993
This theme issue presents art advocacy as a necessary means of bringing art and art education to an elevated status in the elementary secondary curriculum and educational system. Articles include: (1) "Editor's View" (Margaret Scarr); (2) "Art Education: Why Is It Important" (Arts Education Partnership Working Group); (3)…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Art Education, Change Strategies, Cultural Differences

Omotoso, Sam O.; Lamme, Linda Leonard – Reading Teacher, 1979
In this study wordless picture books were used to assess cultural differences in three groups of children. (MKM)
Descriptors: Black Youth, Child Language, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences

Liebes, Tamar – Teachers College Record, 1992
Discusses the role of television in constructing social reality and teaching children to participate in society, examining Israeli research on the role of television fiction and news in parent-child interactions. The article notes how family cultures affect the way television is incorporated into the socialization process in all households. (SM)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Children, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
Barton, David, Ed. – 1990
This bibliography cites resources in 13 aspects of education relating to literacy: approaches to literacy; research and practice; critical approaches to literacy (including Paolo Freire, critical theory, literacy and gender); adult education (adult learning, working in groups); popular education and popular culture (community development, writing…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
Simonson, Michael, Ed.; Crawford, Margaret, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2006
For the twenty-ninth year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the National AECT Convention in Orlando, Florida. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Professional Associations, Educational Technology, Teacher Educators