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Harris, Samantha; Lee, Jin Sook – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This study examines the experiences of mixed-race Korean Americans in their journey to develop and use their heritage language, Korean, through in-depth autobiographical interviews. Participants highlighted the role of 'Korean-speaking spaces' such as Korean churches or grocery stores, where the expectation is to speak Korean, as important sites…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Korean Americans, Multiracial Persons, Second Language Learning
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Coleman, Lynn; Tuck, Jackie – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
In South Africa, inequalities endemic to HE systems worldwide are further compounded by apartheid legacies. Despite an intensive focus for over twenty years on how pedagogic intervention could be harnessed to address these inequalities, black students' participation and success rates in South African HE remain stubbornly low, suggesting a need for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Transformative Learning, Blacks, Racial Segregation
Bergson-Shilcock, Amanda – National Skills Coalition, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has vividly illustrated the centrality of frontline workers to the everyday functioning of the American economy and daily life. But while some articles have mentioned the high proportion of immigrant workers in these roles, there has been much less attention paid to the high number of English learners in particular. The…
Descriptors: Pandemics, English Language Learners, Immigrants, English (Second Language)
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Gretchen Givens Generett – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2024
In her 2022 AESA Presidential Address, Gretchen Givens Generett uses the storytelling process to demonstrate how an in-depth analysis of her individual self-paradigms prepared her to lead through change and uncertainty. Further, she poses questions about the future of AESA with an eye toward how the organization might use the storytelling process…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Change Agents, Professional Associations, Conferences (Gatherings)
Tennessee Higher Education Commission, 2023
This year's "Tennessee Higher Education Fact Book" consists of four sections and an appendix of additional resources and terminology. The four main sections of the report provide data on Student Participation, Student Success, Academic and Fiscal Trends, and Outcomes-Based Funding. Relative to the previous Fact Book, Quality Assurance…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Enrollment, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
Tennessee Higher Education Commission, 2022
This year's "Tennessee Higher Education Fact Book" consists of five sections and an appendix of additional resources and terminology. The five main sections of the report provide data on Student Participation, Student Success, Academic and Fiscal Trends, Quality Assurance Funding, and Outcomes-Based Funding. Each section begins with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Enrollment, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
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Maringe, Felix; Ojo, Emmanuel; Chiramba, Otilia – European Education, 2017
This article argues that there are disjunctures between theory and practice related to the integration of refugee students in higher education. Using a theoretical approach, the article explores policy and approaches to refugee integration and identifies the causes of the theory-practice disjunctures. It suggests a framework that other researchers…
Descriptors: Trauma, Higher Education, Refugees, Theory Practice Relationship
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Hurst, Ellen – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
South African higher education institutions, in line with international practice and as a result of the "social turn", are progressing towards mainstream academic literacy support for students. This shift has a political dimension in South Africa where, historically, disadvantage has had racial dimensions, in its departure from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Academic Discourse
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Gqokonqana, Onke; Olarewaju, Odunayo Magret; Cloete, Melanie Bernice – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2022
Every sector in the twenty-first century makes use of technology for its activities, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic and higher education institutions are not exceptional. However, the cohorts enrolled in the selected higher education institution are from technologically challenged backgrounds. This suggests that in their previous…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Higher Education, COVID-19
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Bengsten, Soren; Barnett, Ronald – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2017
In this paper we philosophically explore the notion of darkness within higher education teaching and learning. Within the present-day discourse of how to make visible and to explicate teaching and learning strategies through alignment procedures and evidence-based intellectual leadership, we argue that dark spots and blind angles grow too. As we…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Objectives, Figurative Language
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Inazu, John D. – About Campus, 2018
In this engaging interview, John D. Inazu identifies confident pluralism as the way for us to thrive in connection even when divided by deep differences. Since our differences are not just going to go away, we need to learn to live with others with whom we do not agree. Inazu explains that tolerance, humility, and patience are the foundational…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Higher Education, Social Attitudes, Social Justice
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Hlatshwayo, Mlamuli Nkosingphile; Fomunyam, Kehdinga George – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2019
A significant amount of literature on the student movement in South Africa is characterised by two limitations. Firstly, a significant amount of this literature is found in un-academic and non-peer-reviewed sources, such as social media, online newspapers, blog posts and other platforms. Secondly, some of this literature is characterised by an…
Descriptors: Activism, Student Attitudes, College Students, Higher Education
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da Silva, Guilherme Henrique Gomes; Skovsmose, Ole – Power and Education, 2019
In this article, the authors interpret affirmative actions with reference to structural violence, which is accompanied by legitimizing discourses that tend to make discrimination appear natural and unquestionable. They illustrate the extension of structural violence in Brazilian society with particular reference to access to higher education. It…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Affirmative Action, Access to Education, Special Needs Students
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Kim, Sunha; McVee, Mary; Faith, Myles S. – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2019
In response to the increasing importance of a college education, this study investigates the college access trajectories of targeted racial and linguistic minority students and recommends ways to promote their college access. High school completers drawn from the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics were tracked for eight years, and a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Postsecondary Education, High School Graduates
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Cheng, Albert; Peterson, Paul E. – Sociology of Education, 2021
For decades, social theorists have posited--and descriptive accounts have shown--that students isolated by both social class and ethnicity suffer extreme deprivations that limit the effectiveness of equal-opportunity interventions. Even educational programs that yield positive results for moderately disadvantaged students may not prove beneficial…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Disadvantaged Youth, Urban Schools, Minority Group Students
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