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Kasun, G. Sue – Ethnography and Education, 2014
Reframing immigrant families as transnationals, this article highlights transnational families' ways of knowing. This study is based on a three-year, multi-sited critical ethnographic set of case studies of four families in the USA and Mexico. Transnational families in this study demonstrated Nepantlera knowing, or liminal, bridge-building knowing…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Migrant Workers, Working Class, Immigrants
Lockhart, John – ProQuest LLC, 2009
A critical task for public school teachers is to build and maintain productive relationships with their students, especially to facilitate learning. That task is particularly important in preparing new teachers for urban schools because cultural differences between the majority of urban teachers and their students can complicate and impair those…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Middle Class, Teacher Student Relationship, Multicultural Education
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Faas, Daniel – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2007
Germany's national (or ethnic) identity has become thoroughly European and there are even signs of Eurocentrism. This is particularly problematic for the Turkish Muslims who, arguably, are not European. This article explores how fifteen-year-old German and Turkish youth in two Stuttgart secondary schools, one in a predominantly working-class area…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Muslims, Focus Groups, Role of Education