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Bader, Barbara – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2003
Sketches out the argumentative strategies used by three 17-year-old boys to interpret the disagreement presented to them. Shows that they were inclined to adduce current ideas about science--framed according to a realist, empiricist epistemology--but that there are grounds for thinking that high school students would be capable of actualizing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies, Science Education, Secondary Education
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Cousin, Patricia Tefft; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1993
This case study of the literacy strategies used by a young adolescent male with learning disability revealed that the student produced unsophisticated literacy behaviors in traditional academic contexts, whereas more sophisticated uses were exhibited in contexts that bridged the student's personal and cultural knowledge to literacy use in the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Junior High Schools, Language Usage, Learning Disabilities
Nixon, Jon; And Others – 1996
Serious confrontation of the problems facing education requires a reform of the organizing principles of learning: a shift from an instrumental purpose to the moral and political purpose of cultural renewal, from learning for economic purposes to learning for citizenship. This book focuses on the work of secondary schools in the contexts of…
Descriptors: Democracy, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Educationally Disadvantaged
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Aitken, Stuart C. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1994
Maintains that, while geographers have been using films for some time, it is only recently that the full power of this medium has been recognized. Argues that teachers should be aware of subtexts within films that mark significant cultural and political biases. Discusses a list of films used in a college introductory geography course. (CFR)
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Cultural Differences, Documentaries