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Lassila, Erkki; Uitto, Minna – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2016
This narrative research explores the tensions that beginning teachers tell about their relationships with students between the ideals they have, and how the teachers experience those relationships in the micropolitical and relational environment of their everyday work. The phenomenon is approached through stories told by three Japanese beginning…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Beginning Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Collaboration
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Takeuchi, Miwa Aoki – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2018
This study examined immigrant parents' involvement in early years mathematics learning, focusing on learning of multiplication in in- and out-of-school settings. Ethnographic interviews and workshops were conducted in an urban city in Japan, to examine out-of-school practices of immigrant families. Drawing from sociocultural theory of learning and…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Parent Participation, Mathematics Instruction, Multiplication
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Ahn, Ruth – Intercultural Education, 2012
A qualitative study conducted in western Japan examined the perceptions of Korean students in Japanese junior high school to identify factors contributing to a consistently low high school advancement rate compared to mainstream Japanese students. Fourteen people were interviewed about their Korean students' experiences in Japan. The findings of…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Foreign Countries, Social Environment, Early Admission
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Kumagai, Yuri; Sato, Shinji – Critical Studies in Education, 2009
Traditionally, the goal of foreign language education has been to teach learners linguistic and cultural knowledge so that they could function successfully in the target language and cultural environment. But does demonstrating knowledge always help learners accomplish their interactional goals? To explore this question, this study investigate…
Descriptors: Racial Factors, Cultural Context, Japanese, Second Languages
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Hinkelman, Don; Gruba, Paul – Language Learning & Technology, 2012
As blended language learning environments evolve within tertiary foreign language institutions, issues of power with regards to the privileging of electronic technologies come to the fore. Blended learning, or the principled mix of online and classroom-based activities, challenges the practices of traditional CALL and face-to-face teaching within…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Facility Planning, Action Research, Computer Software
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Morita, Naoko – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2004
This article reports on a qualitative multiple case study that explored the academic discourse socialization experiences of L2 learners in a Canadian university. Grounded in the notion of "community of practice" (Lave & Wenger, 1991, p. 89), the study examined how L2 learners negotiated their participation and membership in their new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Socialization, Graduate Students