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Angie Zapata; Adrianna González Ybarra; Mary Adu-Gyamfi – Reading Teacher, 2025
Amplifying the racial, linguistic, ethnic, and broader sociocultural resources of Black, Latine, and Indigenous communities remains an urgent endeavor during these precarious times in literacy education. In the wake of continued global and U.S. racial reckoning movements and legislation that narrows early literacy curriculum to isolated skills and…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Multilingualism, Literacy, Reading Aloud to Others
Darryl Powell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study explores elementary school teachers' perceptions of emotional intelligence (EI) influence on the academic development of African American elementary students within a charter school in North Carolina. Persistent academic disparities faced by Black students, exacerbated by systemic educational inequalities and socio-cultural challenges,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Emotional Intelligence, Social Influences
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Steier, Rolf; Kersting, Magdalena; Silseth, Kenneth – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2019
This study contributes to our understanding of meaning making in CSCL environments by examining a specific aspect of collaborative problem solving in which students improvise, introduce, and make meaning with representations in disciplinary domains. These situations include the embodied and imaginative processes of discovering new representational…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Sociocultural Patterns, Problem Solving
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Chafi, Essaid; Elkhouzai, Elmostapha – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2017
A number of educational reform attempts, chief among which are pedagogy by objectives, competency-based approach, and pedagogy of integration, have been made to establish pedagogical reform in Moroccan public primary school. However, results have not been up to par. Failure of school reform has been largely rationalized in terms of technical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Cultural Influences
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Lascotte, Darren K.; Tarone, Elaine – Modern Language Journal, 2022
In commercial materials for the teaching of second language (L2) pronunciation, common bottom-up approaches segment phonology into a series of discrete and decontextualized linguistic components with rules that students are encouraged to internalize. Such approaches seem out of step with recent second language acquisition (SLA) theory and research…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Ruck, Julia – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2020
Sociocognitive (Atkinson, 2011) and complex dynamic systems approaches (Larsen-Freeman & Cameron, 2008) highlight the inextricable connectedness of social and cognitive phenomena in second language (L2) learning. Previous research found numerous ties between L2 learning and both learners' sociocultural background as well as their affective…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, German
Jiji P. Olds – ProQuest LLC, 2020
In an Eastern U.S. school district, little is understood about how elementary general education teachers apply instructional strategies for English Language Learners (ELLs) in the classroom and which strategies they perceive support academic achievement. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore elementary general education…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English Language Learners, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning
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Romm, T. A. – Russian Education & Society, 2015
The article presents the cultural foundations informing the pedagogical theorization of social education in Russian pedagogy. It demonstrates the trends within the theory of social education while taking into account changes in sociocultural conditions in the XX century. [This article was translated by Kenneth Cargill.]
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Sociocultural Patterns, Cultural Influences
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Muller Mirza, Nathalie; Perret-Clermont, Anne-Nelly – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2016
Far from following a linear process from its conception to its implementation, an educational design often involves discrepancies between what its promoters intended and what the participants actually do. In this paper, drawing from a sociocultural perspective to learning, we focus our attention precisely on some of the discrepancies observed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agricultural Occupations, Intervention, Sociocultural Patterns
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Hernandez, Carola; Ravn, Ole; Valero, Paola – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2015
Since the 1970s, Aalborg University has been developing a new pedagogical model in higher education: The Project Oriented-Problem Based Learning (PO-PBL). In particular, the Faculty of Engineering and Science has developed a pedagogical proposal that introduces students to a different type of learning. One of the theoretical frameworks…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Problem Based Learning
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Anderson, Charles; McCune, Velda – Curriculum Journal, 2013
This article considers how best to conceptualise higher education curricula in a world marked by uncertainty, where knowledge and the foundations of knowledge are strongly contested. We then draw on conceptions of agency that derive from socio-cultural theorising to consider what "tools" for thinking and practising individuals may need to deploy…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Sociocultural Patterns
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Al-Murtadha, Mutahar; Feryok, Anne – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
Unwillingness to communicate (UWTC) was initially conceptualized as a trait-like predisposition in L1 studies, but later research shifted the focus to willingness to communicate (WTC). In second language acquisition, WTC was introduced as a situational construct where time is highlighted by the immediate context of decision to communicate.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Shelton, Stephanie Anne – Teaching Education, 2015
Despite growing support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in the United States, the Southeastern region continues to pass legislation that discriminates against those who do not fit normative notions of sexuality and gender. This opposition affects LGBT students and the teachers who identify as LGBT activists. This study of…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Activism, Homosexuality, Social Discrimination
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Fielding, Ruth – Language Learning Journal, 2016
This paper discusses how teachers in a bilingual education programme see their pedagogies and interactions influencing student connection to the languages of the bilingual programme. The teacher perception of the classroom is explored because the classroom is one of the principal settings in which the students negotiate their bilingual identities.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Self Concept, Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education Programs
Koshino, Kako – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation examines, through the lenses of three second generation Vietnamese-American men, the socio-cultural contexts within which the Asian-American identity is constructed, knowledge is constructed, and the critical awareness of power dynamics are shaped. These are the contexts and structures within which Asian Americans participate in…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Vietnamese People, Sociocultural Patterns, Ethnicity
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